Mini Pickup Restoration Project No.2! Finally Underway! by pickupmad87

By diyauto
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3 minute(s) of a 66 minute read

2-2-2013

after last nights de-barcale we woke up this morning with fresh heads ready to start. managed to drill the holes and cut the slots in the right lip this time.


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also decided to put some spot welds on the outer lip to pull some of the panel back in. the reason were are not using the spot welder on all of it is we are having trouble getting the welds to stick properly so have no confidence in it holding properly.


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now that the hinge slots and holes are in the correct place we could set out the hinge mounting panels and set out the rear valence closing panel


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once this was done we mocked the rear valance up with the tank fitted using the fixing kit, then drilled some holes and used some self tapping screws to keep it in place.


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because you cant get a rear valence without the fog light holes drilled in we decided to weld up all the holes except for the ones the tank fits to


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once this was done we welded the rear valence on


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we ground all the welds down then refitted the tank to make sure everything still fitted ok.


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thats it for tonight should get a bit more done tomorrow.



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