67/68/69 cuda dilemma
With a lot of the butchery done to this car. How to repair different issues on it has been a head scratcher to say the least. I have posted a lot of pix in hope that I can help others dealing with similar issues. Every day though it's one more step closer to reassembly of the floors, and wheel houses. After that, the demolition will proceed again. This time however on the dutchman and quarter skins.
Anyways one of the things I need to reverse is the rear shackle hanger tubes that were welded into the framerails. If the welding job was halfway decent I might have left them alone, but just like everything else this guy seemed to touch on this car, the welding job on these was absolute **** too.
By the time I removed the tubes, and cut all the bad weld out of em I had a 1&3/8" hole in each framerail on the inboard sides. I fabbed up some 14 gage filler plates with chamfered edges to get a full weld, and closed em off. Still have to do the same on the outboard sides tomorrow.
With a lot of the butchery done to this car. How to repair different issues on it has been a head scratcher to say the least. I have posted a lot of pix in hope that I can help others dealing with similar issues. Every day though it's one more step closer to reassembly of the floors, and wheel houses. After that, the demolition will proceed again. This time however on the dutchman and quarter skins.
Anyways one of the things I need to reverse is the rear shackle hanger tubes that were welded into the framerails. If the welding job was halfway decent I might have left them alone, but just like everything else this guy seemed to touch on this car, the welding job on these was absolute **** too.
By the time I removed the tubes, and cut all the bad weld out of em I had a 1&3/8" hole in each framerail on the inboard sides. I fabbed up some 14 gage filler plates with chamfered edges to get a full weld, and closed em off. Still have to do the same on the outboard sides tomorrow.