1966 Plymouth Fury 3

[Rocket88]

A man of your fettleing inclinations needs a plasma cutter……

[PhilA]

17 hours ago, Rocket88 said:

A man of your fettleing inclinations needs a plasma cutter……

I would but I have nowhere to put it.

[PhilA]

I welded the side panel in.

That's mostly secure, needs a little more work and the plug welds finishing up.

It's also now a RACE CAR, because it has RACE CAR tires.

Yeah, I got bored and painted the letters on the tires.

[juular]

Kudos on recreating the details on these panels. I would probably have just welded in a flat panel then hit it with a ball peen hammer a few times and called it strengthened. Yours is most definitely the better approach!

 

[PhilA]

11 minutes ago, juular said:

Kudos on recreating the details on these panels. I would probably have just welded in a flat panel then hit it with a ball peen hammer a few times and called it strengthened. Yours is most definitely the better approach!

 

I'm kinda wanting it to look right if someone lifts the carpet up or jacks it up to look underneath.

Plus, it's such a large expanse of flat steel panel it needs as much help as it can get to stay in the right shape.

Phil

[PhilA]

That'll be why I was getting bad welds then.

Improv. Should work better.

[PhilA]

Made up a panel to attach the floor repair section to.

The repair panel was cut a touch small by the previous body shop so it'll have something to connect to.

It's all starting to come together; feels remarkably solid now, which is reassuring.

Phil

[PhilA]

Hm. Cranberry (frame) or Colonial Red (inner wing)?

[Zelandeth]

Personally I prefer the deeper red.

[motorpunk]

That red is too orange and the other red is too burgundy. 

Does that help? No? Sorry...

[PhilA]

45 minutes ago, motorpunk said:

That red is too orange and the other red is too burgundy. 

Does that help? No? Sorry...

No porridge is good enough, either?

[PhilA]

Yeah, I think I'll keep with the Cranberry.

[Noel Tidybeard]

cranberry FTW

[PhilA]

Got the correct shape of the first section of boot floor proper. Needs finalized and welding in.

Phil

[PhilA]

Got this far

Ran outta wire

[PhilA]

Bought some more wire this morning. The Lincoln Electric stuff I had was not nice to weld with. Bought some more Forney and it's miles better.

All welded in.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

Slight change of pace today.

Bought a BATTREE.

[PhilA]

Recall way way way back I started looking at how to form the trunk floor, and I made a practice piece?

Turns out the positioning of the ribs was accurate and the metal large enough.

So, I bashed the stiffener ribs in properly and folded one lip down; it warped slightly so I need to fix that but overall that'll do. Saved some money and time on that one.

Also ran half a bottle of Berryman down the carburetor at high speed, that's seemingly cured the pops and bangs from the even bank so I'm happy with that.

Core plugs are leaking quite badly, not unexpected as they were all in need of replacement. That's really an engine out job, if I do that it'll also make fixing the firewall easier so there's that.

Phil

[PhilA]

Straightened out and folded down. Just right. 

That's all I had energy for, running on about 2h sleep since yesterday.

[PhilA]

Yesterday afternoon after work I had an hour to mess about with the car so cut the remaining portion of floor out here. 

Also removed the remnants of the previous boot floor repair by twisting at it for three minutes with a pair of pliers. A lot of the welds cracked off immediately. Most weren't attached. 

Cleaned it down. The floor panel on the left there is pretty grody, this side seems to have had a significant leak at some point (that's evident- I know it did, the drip rail had been, erm, replaced- that's on the to-do list of Things To Un-repair). Bottom of the wheel tub needs to be cut off and a new piece let in, then I can attach this section. I did have a cardboard cutout of the drop flitch panel but I'll be damned if I can find it. Bought some more steel last night so I can get on with some of that.

Forecast for today is rain. And tomorrow. And Monday. Tuesday onward is sunny. Typical, rain the days I'm off work.

[PhilA]

Got rained on a whole bunch today.  Managed to clean off the old welds and random pieces of metal stuck to the wheel tub, also removed the remains of the old floor.

Most of the holes are actually from the bodyshop, cutting, grinding and welding. That needs a piece letting in, left of the reinforcement needs the rest readding, it's a bit thin as it approaches the arch.

After the rain stopped I was in the midst of other things and ended up somehow polishing the brightwork on the front of the car.

More rain forecast tomorrow, great.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

Couple hours with grinder and welder. Quit as the sun started getting too hot on my back and my welding mask decided to quit working.

Bottom of the arch done, side panel in.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

The day cooled off somewhat so I started a little side project.

It started with an expertly crafted slice of metal, carefully contoured.

Then a second, which is currently a work in progress. Maybe more on this tomorrow.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

Well, the pot metal of the emblem fractured and cracked away.

That didn't work. Back to square one.

[PhilA]

Resuming things I can fix; template in CAD today for the driver's side lower quarter.

Phil

[PhilA]

Channeling my inner Bob Ross at lunch time.

Touched up all the black paint on the front of the car.

[PhilA]

Only had time to weld the two repair sheets together.

I've made worse welds.

[PhilA]

Slice, slice, slice.

Bend, bend, bend

 

Need to add the profile, but it's got the lip return on the bottom now. 

[PhilA]

Bash bash bash bash bash

Zort crackle pop spatter sonofabitch-that-was-hot zort crackle

Just tacked on for now because rain and it needs the profile amending.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

Yup, I thought it looked wrong.

Just went and put the template to both sides, and realized for this one I used the wrong datum.