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Old 05-08-2017, 09:29 AM
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Continuing work up front, I started patching some of the through-rust on the rails. The rails are all 14ga, so patching is a lot like sheetmetal repair.

Marked up rail highlighting damage:


The rail under the bump stop brackets had spotty pitting; more pin holes to repair:




Also noticed the inner frame braces were deeply pitted, so lots of evidence that water collected in this area and never made it to the drain holes slightly farther back.

Drilled the rust packed spot welds and cut out the neighboring pitting:




Fit the patch:




Ready for bump stops.


Wrapping up some repairs on the inner part of the rail - pitting, spot welds, and porosity:


David
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