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Tub time. The flange of the tub is sandwiched between two layers at the top. Getting the old metal out from in between was a challenge. The huge holes on the outermost flange were two-fold. 1) because it was so hard to separate, it required a larger drill size. 2) My game plan was to plug weld to the inside flange first (through the larger hole). Then finish welding the outer flange.

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Mock up with tub

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Drill, drill drill, drill

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And getting welded... You can see I took the opportunity of no quarter to work on the trunk floor.. lots of old drilled holes (battery in trunk ?) and lots of hammer and dolly work. While things were opened up I was stripping the "to be painted" surfaces to bare metal and the "no show" surfaces were getting wire wheeled sanded and either Por-15 if surface rusted or DP90 if bare and clean.

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Continued welding

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Front lower inside, with faux spot dimples... plug welded in between.

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Rear Lower inside

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Bottom rear edge

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Top flange

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Nice work! I don’t have the skills for this, but I love to watch this part of a build more than anything for some reason…

It all looks great.

I hope you fit the quarter panel along with the wheel house before welding.

1970 L-78 Nova Restoration; Saga of The Green Bastard
 

Stripped out the old sandwiched quarter at base of rear window/trunk

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A little repair in the corner (sorry poor picture)

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1970 L-78 Nova Restoration; Saga of The Green Bastard
 

Tail panel had been cut out as it had to be replaced due to some old repaired damage. Earlier in the sequence but had not yet included photos.

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One advantage to having scavenged the replacement used inner door panel from the wrecker... I now had an original jamb to harvest the "telephone receiver". Recall the quarter which was cut off was a replacement GM panel with only half a receiver as with the replacement NOS GM panel I was now putting on. Well, we can fix that detail.:beers:

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I tig welded the receiver in only because I wanted to practice with the tig.

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Because of the previous jamb and inner door panel damage, It was best to also attach the jamb/striker reinforcement to the panel first. That way the quarter can be perfectly aligned and welded to the inner panel afterwards.

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Door side of jamb

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There is a small reinforcement piece that goes in the corner of the quarter window. This piece was completely missing from the previous repair. Unfortunately I was not aware of it when I scavenged the repair piece from the wrecker. I did my best to get some phone pics of the LH side taping my phone to a stick and sliding it in there. Then fabbed a piece as close as I could from the pics

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Yes... many,many trial fits