Can of rusty worms

[Glenwood]

took in the local car show yesterday. Not may mopars unfortunately but this one caught my eye! Same owner since new...beautiful




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finished welding up these patches today



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found a few more rust pin holes. Probably should have cut and patched but I managed to fill them in.

 

[Coronet 14]

Have you tried 20 ga metal. Might be easier to work with. This is where I've gotten my metal.

http://www.metalsdepot.com/shapes/sheet/

 

[Glenwood]

starting to make the air box patch...gonna take a while!



That's enough for today, time for a little Irish whiskey to wash out the grinding dust!

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Have you tried 20 ga metal. Might be easier to work with. This is where I've gotten my metal.

http://www.metalsdepot.com/shapes/sheet/

funny you say that, I've been thinking about that lately. The 18g I'm using seems a bit thicker that this metal, which I guess is 19g. I think I will be patching the cowl with 20g, so I'll have to find some locally. Thanks for the link, I'll take a look.

 

[Superfreak]

What are you using to grind the welds?

 

[Glenwood]

What are you using to grind the welds?

I use a 1/16 cut wheel on a right angle die grinder. I'm trying to stay just proud of the sheet metal and plan to finish with sanding disks.

 

[ckessel]

Where you are doing the airbox patch is where I plan on routing my a/c-heater plumbing.

 

[Glenwood]

Where you are doing the airbox patch is where I plan on routing my a/c-heater plumbing.

Is that to tuck the hoses outa sight?

 

[Glenwood]

did a bit more work today though not as much as I would have liked.

Before I can fit the large patch, I figured I'd fix this small section first. I trimmed it away from the large section and blasted it in the cabinet to see how much would have to be cut out...nasty!



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I thought the 18g would be too difficult to fit and weld given the shape of the patch I needed to make so I stepped out to buy a piece of 20 in the absence of 19g. Turns out no one sells 20g either. All I could find was 16, some 18, 22 & 26...wtf, no 20g in three different stores!

I decided to trim out a piece from the old air box and blasted it.



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Marked out the rough spot to be cut. Used some round bar to get the right radius and hand bent it.



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it was tough to fit the different curves and slopes, lots of hammer & dolly work.

tacked it and continue welding. Turned out better than I thought it would.

 

[Superfreak]

Nice work.

 

[mopar4don]

Looking good

 

[Glenwood]

thanks guys. My goal was to get this little patch roughed in on Sunday, I took it right to the dinner bell. Amazing how long it takes, but I'm getting a little better at it. The plan is to sand it and then tack this piece back onto the firewall so that I can continue fitting the larger patch.

 

[ckessel]

Yes on out of sight and out of need. I'm using a 70 k-frame on mine and have to move all the hvac plumbing which is right in the way when the new engine goes in. My unit needs replacing anyway since the blower motor died, heater core leaks, evap leaks. Figured that if all that stuff has to come out, I'm updating it with Vintage, Restomod or one of the other companies. Get away from the cables and vacuum pods and get more modern stepper motors to control ducts/operations.

 

[Homstead]

That's looking great! Good job!

 

[2quick]

Looks good to me!

 

[Glenwood]

Yes on out of sight and out of need. I'm using a 70 k-frame on mine and have to move all the hvac plumbing which is right in the way when the new engine goes in. My unit needs replacing anyway since the blower motor died, heater core leaks, evap leaks. Figured that if all that stuff has to come out, I'm updating it with Vintage, Restomod or one of the other companies. Get away from the cables and vacuum pods and get more modern stepper motors to control ducts/operations.

like to see some pics of that

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That's looking great! Good job!

thanks Homestead!

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Looks good to me!

Thanks 2quick...nice work on the Satty btw. Been following along wishing I had your skills! Still can't believe you only paid $900 for her.

 

[ckessel]

Pictures coming when I finally dive onto it. Plan on routing the wiring on the other side in a similar fashion.

 

[Glenwood]

Some fine tune fitting




trying to reproduce the lip on the curves was a bit tricky.
A 3/4 socket and a 2" pipe fitting worked pretty good for the radius.


checking the fit for inner fender bracket


tacking it in place. not a bad fit for an amature



the plan is to remove the entire firewall air box section after fitting and tacking the patch so I could remove it as one piece. I figured it would be tough to fab it up and get it to fit right off the car. Now I can remove it and finish welding it. It'll be easier to clean up both sides and put on some rust protection and then weld it back on.

 

[Daly]

This is precisely why I don't want to do to much modifying to the Coronet. I get the feeling I'm going to be hoping it looks as good as your's does when it's finally time to start cutting... You're doing awesome work thou, I hope I have the patients when the time comes...

 

[Glenwood]

Thanks for the compliment Daly. I knew the air box was rusted when I bought the car and it would need to be addressed at some point. Swapping it out to a big block was always the plan and I just couldn't turn a blind eye to it all. I did not expect the cowl to be in rough shape though or how bad other areas might be, but if I just left it, it would rust through before long. It's been challenging so far but fun (sort of)
A good test of patience and a chance to learn some new skills!

 

[Superfreak]

That last patches your fitting and tacking in could put you into pro status, it looks very nicely done.