Gerahead's 71 Dart
I took some pics of the work that has been accomplished over the last week.
In this pic you can see the corner misalignment in the lower rear corner of the passenger door that I mentioned before. After I got the glove box door and ashtray masked off, I applied another coat of paint. My paint gun chose this time to act up. The paint came out in a pulsing fashion. Case for conducting a test spray pattern! Shortly after getting the paint on the parts, a f'ing insect decided that the middle of the dash was a good place to die! Didn't see anything obvious in the subsequent gun teardown and another coat went on without any further issues.
My car is like many others, the door striker on the driver's door had broken around the edge of the shims. A previous owner had tried fix it and the bolt was booger welded to the b-pillar. So I had fabbed up some plates to reenforce that area on both sides that bolted into the b-pillar.
When I drilled the holes in the pillar to mount the plates, I broke my previous attempt to repair the prior damage. So I took out the anchor nut and capture plate. I have cut a plate of steel that I will weld to the inside of the pillar that will increase the strength of this area. I will be welding the capture plate/anchor nut to this plate. I will plug weld the plate to the b-pillar and then add the reenforcing plate on the outside. I should be getting that assemble all welded back in today.
I took some pics of the work that has been accomplished over the last week.
In this pic you can see the corner misalignment in the lower rear corner of the passenger door that I mentioned before. After I got the glove box door and ashtray masked off, I applied another coat of paint. My paint gun chose this time to act up. The paint came out in a pulsing fashion. Case for conducting a test spray pattern! Shortly after getting the paint on the parts, a f'ing insect decided that the middle of the dash was a good place to die! Didn't see anything obvious in the subsequent gun teardown and another coat went on without any further issues.
My car is like many others, the door striker on the driver's door had broken around the edge of the shims. A previous owner had tried fix it and the bolt was booger welded to the b-pillar. So I had fabbed up some plates to reenforce that area on both sides that bolted into the b-pillar.
When I drilled the holes in the pillar to mount the plates, I broke my previous attempt to repair the prior damage. So I took out the anchor nut and capture plate. I have cut a plate of steel that I will weld to the inside of the pillar that will increase the strength of this area. I will be welding the capture plate/anchor nut to this plate. I will plug weld the plate to the b-pillar and then add the reenforcing plate on the outside. I should be getting that assemble all welded back in today.
