Aaron's 76 Type LT Project

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5-23-2010


Been a couple of weeks since I was able to do some meaningful work on the 76 (vacation followed by a busy week with work). Welded in the driver side floor pan this weekend using a lap joint. It's 90% done, still need to fill in some screw holes and place a patch over a gap between the toe board and the floor pan (you can see in the upper left area).

I've got a 4 day weekend ahead so should get into the pass side floor board then. Thanks for looking

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Oh, here are a couple of pics from our vacation to Colorado. We weren't expecting snow at all but got ~12" up in Estes Park. We still had a blast.

Here's us snow shot hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park

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Pike's Peak in the background during a nice 6 mile hike

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One more of my favorites

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6-7-2010

Sorry for no updates lately. I've been doing work but not been so good about uploading pics. Then I left my only memory card reader at work last week so that didn't help  I'll toss some pics up tonight, I promise. The pass side floor pan is going better than the driver side, as it should be. Hope to have the pass side pan done by this weekend and then I can move on to spraying the firewall and underside with epoxy and coat the rest of the interior metal.  

After that it will actually be kind of exciting since I will be putting the frame and all the suspension back on, so it will look more like a real car. I decided to put the car back on wheels before I replace the 1/4 panels. I think that will allow me to achieve a better fit with the car sitting in a more normal manner. If the car was on a steel rotisserie then I might not put the car on wheels, but it's on a creaky wooden rotisserie.


Picture time!

Decided to cut out a pitted area in the floor pan and weld a new piece in. Was pretty badly pitted so did not want to mess with trying to make it acceptable.

Piece that was cut out

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New piece fits pretty well

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And we'll skip what the welds looked like and get to the final product

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Another patch I had to make where the driver side floor pan meets the toe board

Think I have enough screws? (BTW, I love these elf-tapping screws)

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After a few spot welds

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And ground down to its near final form

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Working on the passenger side floor pan now.  

Not a bad fit

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Decided to use smaller spot welds on the pass floor pan, mainly to try something new and see how it goes. Takes a little longer but should be easier to grind down. Just ignore that blow-out spot there...

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I will need to replace a section of the toe board but that should be pretty easy. Luckily the sheet metal underneath is fine, so I will have a nice foundation to work with

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Comments

This is cool ?

Posted by Diggymart on 1/27/21 @ 4:16:49 PM