JohnL71RS’s Project restart…..

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Today I started to cut off the remanding 1/4 under the door on the driver's side. I had a friend come over because he needed my spare rt fender and front valence to custom make a radiator support for a 71 camaro he is back half-in. While he was here we decided to take the glass out the doors. I have never done this before and he has many times. We started with the driver's door. It was going smoothly and it started to get in a bind. We monuved the glass to get it out. Needless to say, the pic is worth a thousand words.

The passenger's side went well. the only good thing is that the glass on the driver's side was damaged by the guides. It had scratches up and down the glass. Well, my friend is going to find me a replacement for the glass that shattered.

For now, I am just getting off all the old metal so i can start the fitting of the driver's 1/4 panel. Will post pics if there is any progress. Thanks for checking out my thread.

1-24-2011

Didn't get out to work on car Sunday. Feeling bad. Did hear today from my friend that helped me take out my windows, that he got me another window for $60. No scratches. Will pick it up this weekend.

1-31-2011

I have received my driver's side glass. Looks really good. Only $60. I didn't get in the garage this weekend. I must have caught the virus my son had. Hopefully I can get in the garage this weekend and get the driver's 1/4 panel test fitted in.

2-5-2011

I was able to get to work on the car for a few hours today. Still getting over my bug i got a week ago. It was still really cold this morning so i waited till it got warmer after lunch. I had to get the 1/4 leftover that was still welded to the wheel well. It was giving me issues because of the seam sealer. So i took a torch to it and burned out the sealer. Then i was able to get it off without doing to much damage to the wheel well. I will eventually cut off the lip on the wheel housing. As you can see in the pic below, i bent up my lip for more clearance on the tire.

I decided to get all the undercoating off the inside of the wheel well. I was going to heat it up and get it off with my chisel, but i saw some thick areas around the seam between the inner and outer housing. I decided to chip it off with the hammer and chisel. Worked great. Then i just started using the chisel by itself. The undercoating came off pretty easy. I guess with the weather being so cold, the undercoating was very brittle. It took me less than 2 hrs to scrap it all off. Would of went quicker, but scrapping over head it a bitch on the arms. Here is a pic of the wheel well after the removal.

I guess this cold weather was good for something. It didn't even get to 50 degrees today, but tomorrow it is suppose to get to 67. Will be out there tomorrow trying to make some progress.

Thanks for checking out my progress.