Cutting up and replacing the rotted panels on a Big Block 1969 Dodge Charger

hey what's up everybody so got another project this is just a quickie build I'm having to do everything on this is gonna be all done on GoPro and I got trying to get used this whole selfie stick [ __ ] so to me it's kind of [ __ ] but it's better than just me holding the camera looking at my face so oh yeah this right here is that t5 copper car that I had showed her that can't use my phone so like I should see what the hell I'm looking at so you're looking at me looking at you looking at me kind of thing anyways so this is that t5 copper oh they're my goofy-ass cousin he got the [ __ ] into the stick he's uglier than I am alright like I said t5 copper big-block 2 barrel car what we are doing to this car is going to be cutting see this car doesn't need full quarters this car just needs quarter skin source been cut it off about this line here because it's really not that bad from up here so that all this is good you know and this is good down here this is good and right here all this is good down to about here about everything below this line here is pretty much junk but you know why cut all this out when it's all good so we're gonna do the skins and I think I'm gonna cheat it a little bit you know normally you want to just drill all these spot-welds out and replace all this but since really all this is in good shape you know I'm actually probably gonna cheat it and just do a cut line to about probably 1 inch away from this and then probably all the way down to about here and just skin that because like I was saying you know there's nothing wrong with all this right there so why spend the extra time to fix it and then make the [ __ ] fit right when this is all original Chrysler metal and it's going to fit right so this could do quarter skins most likely going to have to do outer wheelhouse which hoping I don't but I'm kind of leaning more towards gonna have to gonna have to do a little bit patchy to the outer wheelhouse on the bottom we kind of jumped the gun a little bit onion yeah we went ahead and took the taillights and bumper and you know remove the wiring harness in here and but you know I'm not gonna be doing that we just kind of did all this [ __ ] right here we're gonna clean the trunk out and finish tearing apart the car just because really when you're doing this kind of job it needs to be on level ground I mean I could just go ahead and do this right here but you know I'm just gonna put on level ground so we're gonna end up moving the car from there we're gonna put it in the backyard so I can go ahead and get it on level ground on jack stands make sure it's all square and do the job there see am i doing an okay job holding this stupid stick I guess so don't mind us don't mind this shirt this is something I had in high school so I'm using it yeah we're gonna go ahead and vacuum this guy out right here we're gonna take finish taking the trim the wheel well trim off a couple of the other [ __ ] so this cars actually not in too bad a shape this is now this looks really bad that's actually just the skin that's not in it didn't actually hurt the rocker but yeah it's a pretty good car we go ahead and pull the back seat out I'll probably pull some of the probably pull the carpet back or just pull the [ __ ] out and I don't really need to pull the headliner because well we're not doing full quarter panels on a good thing - yeah big project car but technically this isn't my car anymore I sold this car and the guys hired me to do the actually I told him I'm not gonna sell the car unless he pays me to do the job so yep replacing the metal and as you can see so the trunk is actually screwed outer the trunk extensions don't look bad from here but on the bottom side their junk wheel house is all look terrible from here anyways but once you start cutting everything out it will get bad so when we're doing the trunk we've got to pull these out gonna cut this loose I'm gonna have to cut that out see what else we got to do this thing hell yeah we have to remove the spare tire mount and the tap or the little humps there to actually hold the tire off of the trunk pan and to remove those and we're gonna reuse those on the new trunk pan we're gonna go ahead and remove the gas tank right now yep gas tank filler tube side markers wheel well trim until Frankie shows up Frankie is a friend of mine who's gonna help me tear this down I kind of subbed it out to him because I got a lot on my plate right now so Frankie's ones gonna tear it down clean it all up and get it ready for me to start doing the fabrication and putting the new metal on so he's getting the shitty part I get the clean metal part he has to deal with all the rust and all the dirt and oh yeah he got the [ __ ] in the stick there but oh oh yeah this is kind of the intro to this car kind of like a how to do quarter skins but every car is different so some cars will have have a tour of this car is just totally junk backyard will have it to where some cars a junk back here and you I just want to place a full quarter and they'll have it to where cars up here or junk ladies you can see that back window area it's really not bad so there's no need to hack all that out there's a little bit of holes right there but I can just spot weld that or I can just weld that up so no really need to hack into this thing and replace all that when it's really not bad so not really like a full quarter panel job like some of you back east guys have to do but this is kind of a easy quarter panel job because they go saying from here up is bueno well we're gonna start vacuuming this turd ready Frankie doesn't get all the dirty part ain't showed up yet so I got to do some of the dirty [ __ ] you're on my forehead right now get some old beer cans I'm gonna breathe this national or a frickin mask on engine parts get scattered everywhere I bet you there's build she's gonna go I'm trying to keep the cussing down sometimes it just comes out maybe that one folds over nice oh there's string one way let me get some air in here oh man I just want one of these Oh [Music] that came out easy all these back seats are paying yes [Music] it's like I lucky on the first one [Music] all right all right yeah sometimes you see back seats are kind of a pain yeah so you get push there's a tab underneath here there just it holds on to the seat there we go you sucker I'm gonna push on the seat you lift it up Oh huh alright there it goes alright take it out yeah but I got to remove the Gator I gotta remove one of these guys and remove that so I'll get it saying I was like alright now they got the seat loose and go ahead and get some these screws out here breathing in here no [Music] leases cars not full of rat [ __ ] see what's underneath this seat yeah I just lift it up a little bit I really should remove that bloody seat all right go out that way yeah all right well this all the seat belts are in it that's good I got a bullet there kind goodies we got in here that's this guy I like dig I like going through the cars when you pull the seats out stuff is always kind of sometimes just neat [ __ ] in here what's this money bank Anderson West guy pulled out $30 on set instruction pipe welding layout no well nothing too special in this car then there's an eight bullet that's about it yeah yeah we got a bullet we got a button that's probably from a seat belt don't yeah that's from the strap seat belt strap oh here's Frankie all right I got to pull that one off - you're taking Musil no let's gonna say ooh there's a bill cheat yeah it's got that board wrecker oh now it smells like [ __ ] rat piss oh [ __ ] that's all over me all right well I got the car in the backyard all three of us hoofed it back here he's Frankie he's tearing apart the inside I gotta get the windows out taking me we're not gonna take the regulator's out I don't think we're gonna really need to but yeah we'll see what we can do without it yeah I got all vacuumed out I got the seats out and then while he's doing that I'm gonna try and expose all the spot welds and use sometimes as follows the kind of pain the I see like can't really see him that well so usually what I'll do is I'll just heat the area this softens the paint softens our pain enough were eating us to come over here with a wire wheel we'll start to see all the spot we'll see that's them all right there so I'm gonna get them all marked out for Frankie well even though he can see them that's kind of stupid to mark them out but all right so that's gonna happen all the way down the rear valence the same thing up here like I can usually feel them sometimes you can't seem that well with the one right there so I know I can feel that one I can feel that one that one but since we're gonna have to weld to it anyway so I can clean it up [Music] that's still [ __ ] hot but yeah that's what's gonna happen on the rear valence cut these guys out and we'll start getting cutting on the car I always have with these freakin quarter windows see you down in there the two bolts well this one's already Allen he's probably already broken which sucks but there's a bolt down in there that holds the quarter glass and Frankie's heating it up right now with Storch with a little mini torch we're trying to get the aluminum housing behind the glass hot and then we're gonna spray the bolt with water to try and shrink the bolt and as it kind of breaks loose of its housing on the breaks loose of the aluminum so because if you just snap that bolt it's a pain in the ass to get the threads out of the aluminum housing so we're trying to do it without breaking or without snapping the stud all right I'm trying to spray some water on everything it's hot enough still stiff yeah just don't break it see we can't really cut into the quarter panel because it'll [ __ ] up the glass so we got to pull the glass out well we're not getting any luck getting that bolt out so we need to attack it from the backside so I rolled the window all the way up I'm just gonna cut a little square here so I can go ahead and try and get to that thing [Music] there it is let me try and use the big torch yeah you roll down with it put it rolling down to where you had it w-4 yeah there it goes all right [ __ ] gonna be hot sweet and then it comes out like so Mazda just cut the same hole on the other side housing so just like I was telling afar we did the 3/4 inch tape line cut it all the way down the cars biscuits cut the skins off so we just use 3/4 inch down the sides and then just paste along the bottom because all this down here is all gonna get cut off because we're gonna put new scale we're just putting we're just doing the skin along the body line cuz there's nothing wrong with the Chams nothing along with up here you know it's all perfectly good there's nothing wrong with in the back so why were places if there's nothing wrong with it and it's a real Chrysler metal so if the [ __ ] fits right but down here you know this is where you get the problems back here so but the rockers aren't bad just like I thought they were I think it was a I knew that was just gonna be outer skin that was junk but the rocker itself isn't bad that's just scaling it's actually no rot there so we're gonna finish cutting the skin down and we'll draw out all the spot welds and well we got to do some patching here well actually no what no yeah we have two men to replace this guy my first time looking at this one so this cars been in a wreck before hey fighting fighting okay come on come on girls did you get him huh did you get him all right so but yeah it's this going to need an outer wheelhouse for sure the site here is junk sucks anyways so we're working up to an hour we lost on this one now but now since we cut the skins off now we can access the trunk a lot better drill all this out cut these loose need to cut the the trunk lock support loose so that way when we put the trunk pan that's not going to be in a way these have to be welded on top of the trunk pan and then we got the rear valence all drilled out so now we can remove that and then what's to start chopping and cutting this thing apart but yeah from this point on it's just a lot of butchery well same thing on the other side same thing it's already been all cut out - alright [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] yeah they just barely even caught the little edge of that one clean this thing up later [Music] [Music] go this one here this way [Music] no way they're not too bad I wouldn't be [ __ ] let's drill bit oh yeah when I was working at that Ferrari thing bars are a piece of [ __ ] yeah well that was a racecar but a Ferrari itself was there's a peach it looked like it was built with Home Depot materials on the inside I think so is it blinking yeah yeah yeah so just drilling pilots right now what time is it I'm gonna race tracks yeah no I got a [ __ ] I gotta be there 12:30 play the race card game oh to be you like ten years ago Oh sucks well I'd rather do other [ __ ] though that was when you were all fat okay her fat you were just fluffy [Music] [Music] he taking us to a spot [Music] you can buy followed by followers [Music] hey what I'm trying to do right here [Applause] these spot-welds right here I'm just gonna drill through [Music] [Music] but he's going right past the surrounding thing right along this edge right here I just cut if you look on top you'll see that where the spot loads are right there's there's a little beat roll I cut right on that vitro yeah cuz you're happy you got to replace it all anyway [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] all right yeah so yesterday Frankie got the rear valence cut out basically just drilled spot welds out drilled them out here and then well obviously didn't need to do a whole lot of drilling here because they're pretty much junk and there's just two little tabs right here that actually hold the rear valence to the this is the frame rail tie connector but you see it's junk so we're gonna have a replace this so I called the guy let him know hey gonna have to buy more [ __ ] that's junk on both sides so could patch it but if you look here how scaly it is and just Maas just cut the damn thing off and just replace it plus it's all junk up in here yes I could patch this and make it from scratch but why so just replace the whole thing and with just this thing to do because my time I make pieces but I'm I'm done making the patches to fix that not much more you can just go ahead and buy a whole new piece so I'm gonna do that and obviously this is all junk here so just cut a lie down the only good thing about this being junk is we don't have to drill out all the spot welds for the trunk pan right there we're gonna just cutting that whole piece out so it saves a little bit of time just cutting that out and then basically on the trunk pan we got we just use a cut-off wheel cut it along the frame rail all the way around that way just gives us two big holes we can get in here we start chiseling away at the trunk pan on the inside all the way around and then we'll start chiseling away the trunk put on the outside same thing we're gonna cut the trunk pan loose here all the way over to the frame rail then we're kind of box around go over just it gives us room to chisel and then right here you saw me doing this so I'm gonna just drill these out don't need you to spot little cutter or ya don't need you just wobble cutter on these because we're not worried about saving what's underneath that we're just gonna drill straight through oh yeah that's where I'm at right now and I gotta go to the racetrack so Frankie's gonna hopefully get that chunk panel cut out and I'll come back and we'll start hacking more to get more of it apart and yeah we gotta get the trunk pan out before I can cut this off because when you get the trunk pan out that way I can weld braces that go from here down to the frame rail I'm gonna exit so basically we're gonna go exit the frame rails and then we're gonna run a tie connector across so when we cut this piece off the frame rails aren't going to move around yeah that's where I'm at you all right another day without me being able to work on it so Frankie got some more work done for me he got this all cut out he got the trunk pan about I'd say about halfway out except to about here but we're gonna end up having to cut all this out anyway like I said before today is my final day going to the racetrack the three-day event so now that'll be over with so tomorrow I'll be able to be gung-ho on this thing get all this cut out done prep to get that wheel belt cut off and then I got to make some braces too so I got 2x the frame rails and then run another brace from here to here so that way the frame rails hold their shape exactly where they're at while I cut this guy off so that's where we're at right now so yep that's where she'd be another day well this is what we had got done today I really do anything the last couple days cuz I've been at the racetrack but Frankie came over and did a couple things and today I did some stuff on the other side the little things in the back and then I also removed the little bit of the trunk pan that was still attached to the wheelhouse and if you notice the outer wheelhouse is missing that's cuz took it off there's several different ways to do an outer wheels I've seen him hacked in there I've seen him well dust I've seen people butcher a brand new wheelhouse and just weld a piece of it over the rotten one you know and I've also seen people if you if you look right here well nevermind he can't really it's hard to see but that is some kind of roller with teeth on it that actually spot welds at the same time and there is a [ __ ] ton of spot welds in that thing a shit-ton connecting the two outer wheelhouses or the two wheel houses so if you drilled all those out I mean there's not really a whole lot of meat left or if you'd if you spot well the spot I'll cut them I mean they're like every half inch you're gonna be there all freakin day so on a scenario like this where there really nothing wrong with I mean that's solid rust free metal right there what I'll do is I'll actually cut the outer wheelhouse right on the lip and blow all the crap out of frame rails okay well I have got the rear frame rail stand up do you see rear frame rails they're all epoxy and then we've got the weld through primer done on top of the frame rails right now we just kind of roughed it and threw that cross rail up here say hello well hello so we just kind of roughed it in through the cross rail up here just to see how well is gonna fit and just need to do a slight trimming on this side right here it just needs to go over an eighth inch towards Walter and it only didn't need to go up very much so so that's all we gonna do right there all right again what no that's my sign that's your side all right that work huh so let me put a clamp on this there that's good gonna check our measurement okay so we should just want to see 9 and 3/8 9 and 3/8 to the edge of the frame rail we got 9 and 3/8 to the edge of the frame a lot so we're square all right which so I get the body hammers and then just tap down all these little tabs actually I'll get it real quick then we'll mark out everything so they can clean clean clean clean clean and then we'll drill all our holes for this cross rail all right marking all the locations that we're gonna be welding going on right there and then we've already got the backsides all marked out so that we can pull this thing off and we're gonna be just drilling all our holes so then I can just go ahead and plug weld where it's at all right well here's a kind of a factory screw up well they didn't weld this on all the two on the same plane as the other frame rail I was this one yeah that one's yeah they didn't they had these too far forward that's not terrible though not a big deal alright here's where all our flanges are so go ahead and let's go ahead and do three there two on top or the middle Jer Jer go through that one yeah and see that's about okay yeah so that flange stops about right there so one two three or and the flange edge of the flange is right on this side so you know what actually we'll just go here I think that one or two well I think I just wanna hurt so I go ahead and drill this sucker out won't alright should be a block of wood on the front of the car if you want to drill it out alright Walt just got done drilling that all out and deburred it so that guys ready to go in put back on and then I'm gonna go ahead and fit this guy up in there so that's the whole reason for opening up all the drilling all these spot-welds out so we can use this flange and slip it up in there instead of having to drill out all the original stuff it's better just to leave that on there because in this case there's nothing wrong with it and there's a spot weld like every half inch so no problem just laying this over that I had to trim this a little bit nothing major all right here we go okay so I need to trim that a little bit more all right here so we need to go probably cut it about there got that trim a little bit more now see I will get up in there get some vice grips clamp the sucker in there go ahead and start sucking this guy in hold your position see where we're at oh yeah that's good now once we're at this point say I want to read drill these holes right here so that way it's an that way welds all three panels together this one the roof rail or the roof support and the inner wheelhouse behind it so by drilling out these original holes right here in my new wheelhouse it will weld all three of those together right there same thing there same thing right there and then here let's go ahead and put new welds so put it one order okay no hammer these back down you know what I need my body hammer for that because I want to be able to mark these holes as well that way it welds all three of those panels together and then right here we're gonna go ahead and outline the rocker that way I can drill my holes on the back side or the front actually no drill my holes on the front side of this that way I can hit my flange all right that's good and then we're gonna go ahead and clean up this whole area here that's gonna be bare metal that way I can well lay this over this and well that's there now see we're gonna go ahead and outline this because what we're gonna do here is we're going to reuse these holes that I've drilled through so we're gonna get this I'm not gonna weld this wheelhouse to the body yet I'm gonna fit the quarter panel or that the quarter panel it's a hybrid so that cords hanging out I'm gonna fit the skin on here and get it all situated and make sure because sometimes you have to shift and shimmy and just move these wheel houses a little bit because well it's it's made in China so even though they're great you know this is AMD it's metal it's great to use but sometimes the stampings are not exactly OEM and you got to shift and move and shimmy and hammer and dolly so sometimes it's best to leave this guy unwelded so when you get the quarter panel on here if you maybe have to shift it just a quarter inch here there wherever of course you can't go you can't shim around a whole lot but at least you give yourself a little leeway so then once everything's fitted pull the quarter panel back off weld this sucker on here and when I well that I'll go ahead and drill down pin holes so that our drill screws they're self tappers into certain areas that way when I fold a quarter panel off this will hold its original position there it'll kind of like pin it so that way it's gonna go back on in that same spot oh yeah we've got Crossrail all centered up it's in position got it clamped on and bolted and so I can go ahead and start welding this sucker on now we got Walter drilling out [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so this sides all welded up you should basically repeat the same thing to the other side you happening well another night last day of SEMA spent a bunch of money so they come home work on this thing well got that wheelhouse that I'll drilled out and got it fitted so right now it's just gonna be clamped in place and when I test fit the quarter I'll make sure that everything fits the way it's supposed to and as long as everything fits like it's supposed to this truck will get welded on exactly where it sits I just want to make sure it's gonna fit like it's supposed to trunk pans in so what I do is I I get it to where the two outer edges on the end on the inner wheel houses is screwed in usually you get a pretty good gap right there just enough to weld up where the two seams meet yeah yeah we could have put a one-piece trunk pan in it which I would have rather had in it but the guy order a two-piece trunk pan you know whatever it works so let's go ahead and put two piece in there which would've been much nicer if it was one piece but it's not so anyway weld that up so I got that screwed in and then I also got the seam screwed together and then what I have done is now that everything is fitted in the trunk or well now the trunk pan is fitted and everything is gapped where it's supposed to be if you look at the inner of wheelhouses you know they're all clamps to hold everything nice and tight on both sides I take a sharpie or a silver marker and I go to the inside or just to the edge of all the frame rails I basically map out the frame rails on the bottom of the trunk pan I'll show you why in just a second see all I mapped the entire trunk pan out on the frame rails alright so I got the frame rails all drawn out on the trunk pan now I can just start marking my holes we'll go ahead and drill all suckers out so that way I can plug weld it right to the top frame rails pretty much gonna be a whole lot of drilling it's gonna suck to be Walter so Walter got the trunk pan all drilled out as you can see by mapping out the bottom of the trunk pan all the holes lined up perfectly on the frame rails all of them so and what I do is I scoot all the high spots I screw it down so you'll have miscellaneous screw holes and open holes well what I'll do the first pass is I'm going to weld up all the holes with no screws obviously and then I'll pull the screws up and we'll it all those in because I don't want to do any I don't want any hammer marks I don't want no dents I don't want nothing in the trunk pan I just want everything to look like a factory spot weld and if you take a screw and you screw it in you know it's gonna create a little low spot yeah you can kind of see it in the little lighting and let the can enough but it creates just like a tiny little low spot almost like a little inverted dent but once I weld that it's gonna look just like a factory spot weld so that's what I'm doing now no hammer marks just screw it all down make it [ __ ] flat and then weld it all up what's up everybody [Music] now I have one shitty well again [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you don't need to wash it well the whole thing y'all look pretty good I got one little [ __ ] up right there that's because I forgot to turn the gas on dumbass but yep so just keep going about the whole rest of it alright hey what's up everybody well it's another night of me forgetting to record [ __ ] for you but I didn't get too far so I can go ahead and get caught up right here what I've done is well I want to show you when I pulled the cord robber I had to do a bunch of patching this wheelhouse in here which would have been way would've been way better if I'd have just bought another wheelhouse and put it on here but I decided I'm just gonna patch it well that patching turned into like half a day of making patches with my new bead roller but it was nice to learn how to make it but also it was a waste of time because that was I could just bolt I could just cut off a wheelhouse and put one on and been done with it already but did that is done it's on there you so and what I've done is I've got the quarter panel just kind of clamped on here and you'll notice all these little screw holes what I did is I laid the full skin over the quarter panel and then I came in with a cut-off wheel and I just cut it all the way down about you know three-quarters of an inch away from the edge of the quarter what that did is that gave me my perfect you know sixteenth of an inch gap that I need to weld it up so and it's a perfect straight cut line all the way down you see right here so yeah what I did is I just cut along the edge all the way around the skin into bulk cutting through both layers of the original quarter and the skin because it's what used to be laid over it so that way it made my seam perfect all the way down around so that's how I did the quarter skin and this one's all just mocked up on there I got the the valence corner mocked up on there but I need to do is get the other side done so that way I can just test fit the rear valence and once that's all good I'm gonna drill a bunch of pinholes or basically pretty much the screws in so that way it will mark my location so I can weld everything up and then tear it all apart drill a whole bunch of holes in like the bottom here like drill all those holes so that way it lines up with the trunk extension drill all the holes in the wheel in the quarter for the wheelhouse and basically get it to where I can you notice I got a weld of all that up to you so this one here I just laid the skin over the original quarter because this door jamb here wasn't too bad so I just left that all original right there and I'm just gonna weld it to the skin just basically butt joint right there the other side and this is why you screw everything together and don't have it perfect or permanently welded is this is a new wheelhouse on this side over here well previously you saw me put this wheelhouse in in the original locations that you use in the Pinto Center for a punch they're not a punch but hey uh yes everybody so I use the punch to Center the wheelhouse front and back so we actually put it on here just like the original one was but so it's on here but if you look the quarter is way too forward I need that so I need the quarter pound to go back so you can't even shut the door and there's nothing really you can't just shut the door forward because it's already into the it's not into the fender but it's all--it's it fits the fender correctly well since this wheelhouse is not permanently welded on here yet what I can do is just pull some of my screws out slide it backwards and then I got to pull it back about I'd say 3/16 to 1/4 inch on the bottom and you can shift it a little bit up and down or angling but actually look at the body line actually by lines pretty close so here's the body line right that we can see that the paint chipped off and the body lines right here so actually a pretty dead-on right there so I don't really need to do any shifting but this definitely needs to go backwards about 3/16 to 1/4 of an inch so all I got to do is just pull the skin back off pull my screws out slide it backwards 1/4 inch screw it back in throw the quarter skin back on make sure that's all good then as you can see right here actually yeah right here the this is the skin laid over the quarter panel what I'm gonna do is I'm going to drill a couple holes put some screws in it ride the top so that way the quarter panel and the skin don't shift on each other and I'm just gonna run the cutoff wheel flap all the way down so that way I get my perfect seam line same thing right here and see I cut right on the edge of this quarter panel and you can see there's actually quite a bit hanging off right here this quarter panel skin or this quarter not actually the replacement was about all I would say 1/16 to 1/8 inch shorter than the original so it's kind of cuz I know the quarter panel need to go back a little bit but this actually is slightly shorter than the original one not by a lot but enough to notice so yeah once I get that wheelhouse loosened pulled back then I'll put the quarter skin back up here drill my holes and then I'm gonna go ahead and cut my seam all the way down and then I'm gonna get my clamps these are butt joint clamps so I'll go ahead get need to go get some more actually I've kind of broken these and worn them out so I need to go get some more we were hardware free right now and go get some more of these guys like get it on both sides once that's on there then I'll get my other valent or valence coroner get that on there slip the valence up here and basically just drill everything test fit it once everything fits great tear it apart drill some holes and start welding up but yeah the main thing you want to do when putting these cars together is test fit especially the reproduction panels so screw them basically screw the whole car together test fit shimmy move you know cut splice whatever you got to do to make everything fit good and then weld it up after you do all that because if you weld everything as you go you have no wiggle room but we'll see how far I get on this tonight see with shoving that outer wheelhouse back that quarter-inch look at my door gap now now it's tits so we can go ahead and start clamping this sucker down and actually need to get the adjust the hinge a little bit cuz the hinge needs to go the door needs to go up and see where's our body line see the quarter panel looks like it needs to go up about eighth inch maybe so but our gap is good here so then all we got to do from this point is just start going upwards which now that the quarter panel is my real adjust is it's all loose so I might just build it yeah Hercules this thing up a little bit so yeah we'll be good right there oh yeah just by simply by leaving by not welding that wheelhouse in before I got test fitted the quarter panel we were able to sham and move and up and down left and right whatever you need to do to get the quarter panel or the quarter skin to fit correctly you went ahead just welded that thing how the factory was I would've been screwed right here so now I'm good nope now I'm going to start screwing this thing to the car and then test-fitting the valence corner yeah [Music] ah well it's early morning now another day well after test-fitting the quarter panel and test fitting the trunk extension got everything fitted spent a while yesterday fitting the rear valence so I actually had to have both quarter panels on which yeah I didn't recording that crap because I just wanted to get it done and the uh well so both got both quarters set they're pre-drilled so now we want to actually go weld this and I just got to drill out these couple markings there so when I go to weld that on and then set the other one on weld it up I know my rear valence is just gonna sit perfectly over it with perfect gap so that was the whole reason for mocking everything up so I just go ahead and weld the quarters weld the valence corners and yeah I can move on with just putting this quarter back up here mocking everything up and then just put the new bottle on here because last night I had to stop because you notice there's like maybe eight pounds left in this thing there's nothing left in it so gonna swap the bottles get to welding on this junk and hopefully I can have the quarters welded hopefully you had this whole [ __ ] welded up today that would be awesome because then I could put it on the ground roll this sucker out yeah here we go and then everybody all right back on this car as you can see I've got the clamps on there and I've already done a little bit of tacking so I've already kind of jumped a gun on you a little bit I've also fit the quarter panel to the door which basically if it actually didn't fit too bad the only got to do is just put a little slice there and then pop it out a little bit so that way it matches the arch of the door it was just a little bit flat right here if I'd have known ahead of time I'll just throw it on the shrinker but it wasn't too bad just Cutlass slicer so I just need to pull the screws out of here weld those holes up that's right when welded I already fixed all that fix the door jam that was all cracked up in there as you can see what I'm doing here I got a little screwdriver my hand as you can see now I'm trying to weld this to where it's sagging run my finger right across that it's not it's it's on the same plane there's no thereon there's no step between the two I want them to be flush so that when I weld it and grind it down it'll look like there was nothing over there so that's what I've been doing I'll tack move over you know I'll just have to shimmy a little bit with a screwdriver see if I can find a spot that's a little bit okay right here this is just a little bit high than that so basically I stick this in here and just correct it just a little bit there you go now that's flush that's good well that's our there it's kind of high so I need to pop the lower out it's just very slight and we're talking like a couple like thousandths of an inch so that's good you can surprise what your finger can feel a difference in so pop that one out [Music] a little bit more all right that's good okay this one here needs to go the other way pop that guy out that's good this one here you pop the lower out just tad see when you're welding shits gonna move around and warp a little bit so kinda have to stay on top of it all right that's good good that's a little bit low that's pretty good now anything sucked back it's not too much all right that's good it's got a step to it all right now that's good [Music] pop this one good all right so that's all feel pretty good now sound leaving see this but take this off and then you look down the line you can see that they're pretty flush that's what you want so I'm gonna go ahead and finish this all up cuz you won't be able to see me tacking I can't wear that helmet on well well way out this sides all welded up now how nice this is when you do it spots and you take your time watch my fingers there's so little warpage you like you'll see any slight movement in there in the finger now that's super nice alright working on the other side right now so this is kind of this one here is a little bit more well a lot more welding as I have to weld this whole thing down the side there was nothing wrong with the door jamb and the door jamb you know has the original spot welds in it and the well it's shaped to the door correctly to the orange is good so yeah they got it up here too it's the class put it up here with clamps first that she just clamps on top there's clamps on bottom just plants in the wheel clamps in the front so anyways I get it up here and basically I'll start tacking around the clamp first that's where it can be most flush and then in the middle I have to start tweaking moving shimmying basically all these are pretty good I've already done all these and try and find a spot that's not sitting perfectly all right right here see right there there's a little it's so slight you probably can't see it but this part here is just a little recess from that space guy just get in here pop it out just that little bit there we go now it's plush I've been doing that the whole way down after I tak tak tak tak tak tak tak tak so all these are pretty good that's X this one here to go in just to here there you go that way when I grind this hole all the welds down all you're gonna see is just perfectly flush metal you won't see steps in it and then what I'll Dec see from the go over here and show you so if you look here actually will go on the inside all right you'll see air or you'll see light shining through some of the welds I did that on purpose because say like that say like this little gap right here that that little hole if I try and weld that it won't actually weld in between the two pieces of metal it's just gonna weld on top of it that's not what I want so what I'll do is I'll grind this all down and all those little spots that I missed then I'll reweld those and grind them down again that way it actually penetrates in between the two because I think I'm say if I try and weld that she's gonna weld on top of it it's not in the cleaning yeah that's kind of where I'm at I want to get this sucker done I just got back from a Laughlin yesterday I had to go get the title fixed on my green card got it fixed cost me four dollars that car got eighteen miles a gallon eighteen point to actually going from here to Laughlin but then when I got there the alternator locked up so I had to replace the alternator while I was in Laughlin had to buy some tools and replace it but it's fixed made it home now we're talking this junk all right fix real quick you look at this piece here this is pretty flat it's not a whole lot of arch to it when there's arch to the valence corner so when you set it up here doesn't quite line up sticks out at the bottom and in the middle it sucks in same thing on the other side so I'm gonna pull this off stick this on the shrinker stretcher and try and get a large to it shrink or stretch didn't work out that great because I couldn't get the damn thing in there but do it this way all right there we go using the dolly I'm able to get some arch in it that looks pretty good right there wait that all lines up and fits great so see these get this gets seam-sealed so you'll see the body lines but yeah you won't be able to see all the way through it but yeah that fits straight on both sides so I can just go ahead and weld this sucker up now be nice alright well kind of well hell that's the end of that no more whelp needed on this old girl right here all done all welded up I'm pretty sure I don't have to use a welder anymore but I think it's all well it all came out pretty good so everything lines up good you know the last one I had to do I had to actually cut and splice the corner a little bit but this one I shouldn't come out too bad I was able to try something different with the inside and hammer or push the ball the Crossrail back a little bit and then cut some of it out savy everything would lay in there nice and perfect but yeah that came out pretty good same thing on both sides really the only thing got to do is just to open this up right here the slots cuz you know the repot didn't exactly line up perfectly with the original so I grind a few tiny little wells down on that wheel well you see this all discolored here this because there was a big ol hump there and there was a hump in the oh all the ruined Oh filler panel that I couldn't rip push down here it pop up there push down there at pop up here so and then the biggest hump was out here but by heating this up and shrinking heat and shrinking with the torch and water and with a wet rag I was able to shrink all the metal together to actually suck to metal over this way suck metal over that way and then this way and to rate tighten that all up and got rid of that hump there replace the channel on the induction panel should I just place the whole freaking pressure panel but dumbass didn't me being a dumbass this all came out pretty good you can see ooh looks good door jamb that's all good yeah old girl came out pretty good but I finished welding the gas tank straps again if you see the the heat spots through the trunk pan but or the penetration anyway but yeah so now this thing is ready for painting body but I'm not doing the paint body on this one someone else is the guy that actually bought this car from me he's doing all the paint and body where he hasn't a guy that's gonna do it I just contracted to do all the metalwork so now that's all done which let's see I guess I could tell you how much this cost so both quarter skins the rear cross rail the valence both valence corners that quarter panel the driver wheel well patching that fixing this else I have to do this there was a little bit of damaging his door jamb straighten that all out all of that together end up being about 3,500 bucks which you know not too bad I mean I get was that if this was a body shop and not a tint maybe I would have cost a lot more of it just a freaking tent in the backyard so yeah but it all came out pretty good so yep grind some wells down and then they just need to seam seal it and paint the sucker after doing a bunch of bodywork is gonna need it here and there a few spots over although not a bad car but yeah 69 copper tan interior big block to barrel should be going back on the streets here pretty soon another one saved well I guess that's me into this rock for me anyways this can go bye-bye so I'll highlight you guys later bring it another one in you

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Length: 75min 2sec (4502 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 13 2019