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Rockers and Floors |
I purchased the inner and outer rockers from CARS INC. The inner and outer rockers are not 100% complete to the originals. The inner rockers are missing the "L" shaped piece that pinch welds to the upper portion of the outer rocker and is missing the front that closes off against the cowl/rocker reinforment. The thumbnail to the left shows the inner rocker where the "L portion is missing |
I measured the lip from the above picture and scribed a line along the existing inner rocker. After scribing the line, I used my laser level to project my straight line along the rocker. I used the laser line to laydown my tape line |
Inner rocker taped and ready to be cut |
Inner rocker cut out |
cowl/rocker reinforcement panel. Not much left of this puppy |
Since the last shot above was taken, I located a guy about an hour away that restores cars (primarily full size chevy's ;-) ). I ran over to his shop and he had a couple of nice used cowls that will become my sacrifical lambs on my car. It took me roughly a week or so to dismantle all the individual sheet metal stampings that make up the cowl. It was a major pain trying to find all the spot welds. |
I made several templates to layout my cutline on the car so that I could accurately transfer the same cutline to my donor part. I originally was going to make a straight cut all the way across the part, but after much deliberation, I opted to make the cut shown. I wanted to save as much of the original "good" steel as I could |
Replacment piece temporarily fitted into place. You can see a little easier where I made my cut lines with this piece in place |
This is the other section of the cowl that needs to be fixed/replaced. This portion of the hinge pillar is rotted out just above the bracket that the front fender bolts to |
The offending piece cut out. It took me a couple of hours to decide how best to cut this piece out and build templates |
Well, not bad for my first shots at this whole restoration thing. The time spent making the templates payed off. With a little grinding to fine tune the fit, these parts are just about ready to be welded in (after more blasting, priming etc etc etc....) |