Bummer!

Yeah, but I'd rather have a job and take a couple years to finish than the other choice :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Little at a time and then you're done :cheers:

What's in your rocker panel?
 

Nothing now! I should have known the drivers side rocker was gonna be in the same shape as the passenger side, after cleaning with a fiber disc I found a pin hole and sure enough pushed a screwdriver through it :( So I cut off the outside rocker panel to inspect and I found a bunch of mouse related stuff that took awhile to get outa the rocker. (I think there was a sock from the 70's in there :lol: )
So ... I'm waiting on the part from AMD to replace the same patch that I did on the passenger side, should go faster the second time around, right?

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Rusted inner rocker!
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Little POR15 and she'll be better than new!
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Have you looked inside your rocker panel?

My side cowl panel came in yesterday, think I'll mock them up and see how they fit and what mods I need to make them fit.
Later,
Michael

Its amazing what gets in there.

Now we know where the missing socks always ends up

Back in the garage!
 

Ain't that the truth, but how?
I got a rough cut done to the inner rocker tonight, waiting on parts now. Then I mocked the cowl and both side cowls in place ... they need a little work to meet my specs. :thumbsup: My dash looked outa place with all that black sheet metal, so ... I broke out the DeWalt and the fiber disc and cleaned all the paint off the front, supposed to be in the 70's tomorrow so I'll get some epoxy primer on it.
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Rough cut the inner cowl.
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Ready for epoxy primer, looks as good as the back now :cheers:

Until next time,
Michael

Hey from CO
 

I thought only dryers ate socks, how did the mice get that much stuff in there?

Well, this is how nice a day it is here in CO, you never get to work outside in March :willy: Dash is ready!

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Nice to be outside!

Had to do it!
 

Got in the trunk and back out again (getting too old for this) to get the outer and inner wheel houses cut out PITA. One thing I have learned with this car is if there is rust on one side you better do both sides, sure enough there was rust on the lower front quarter/ outer :( And I figure it's best to get everything out and sand blast once and be done.
I'll order my DSE tubs soon and replace the outers, in Stielow's book he make reference to the body shop that did his mini tub and they always replace the outer and inner wheel houses- and this is why!
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the quarter panel looks good from here.
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Not so good from here.
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Looking straight up - needs some attention!
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This is the lower front, needs to be fixed :(

This has been a good weekend to be in the garage with the temps, still need to get the other side cut out, the weather is changing as I'm typing - snow?
Anyone have a preference on outer wheel houses? AMD? Year One?
Later,
Michael

I prefer NOS. That is what I used, but they are hard to come by these days and the price for them is 'out there'. Look at Rick's and see what they have. I bought a lot of panels from them. They offered US Made panels and they were always very nice pieces with the correct gauge thickness.

I'm in the mini tub process right now and they are not as easy as DSE made them out to be. I started out going to just split the stock inners and then decided to just use the DSE deep tubs. The main difficulty I have found with their directions is they give you no reference points for their templates. However, I haven't used their templates other than for my own reference. There really isn't any real clear cut way of doing the tubs, so DSE has made it as painless as they possibly could I suppose. It's not a painless operation though. It just takes time and a little tweaking here and there. Don't try to cut it out all at once. Make your cut lines and then creap up to them fitting the new tub in during the whole process. That way you'll get a perfect fit for the end result. I have already cut my frame rail out a little too much and am going to have to go back and weld a little bit of metal back in to make up the gap. I hope I can have these done by next weekend.

What do your quarters look like at the rear window channel and rear trunk/window filler panel? Mine were rotten there necessitating me to have to replace both quarters. I sure wish I had mini tubbed the car then instead of doing it now:mad:

outer wheel houses
 

I would get NOS but ... yeah right? I have ordered from Ricks before, I'll call them this week.
Did you get the DVD with your tubs?
My filler panel was gone and I've already replace that piece and the sides I have replacement pieces (Ricks) and the quarter panel lip I will make a piece with my shrinker/ stretcher and weld in place. That's a lot easier that a full quarter for sure :wow:

Thanks for chiming in and looking,
Michael