Thanks Charlie, it has been almost a year since we started this project and there haven't been too many weekends where NO work was done to it...
Looking at the photos the welds show up very prominently. This is not the case with all of the reinforcements. I used the mig on "spot" and all of the welds are very low profile and deep penetrating. It just doesn't show up like that in the pics for some reason.
The last two weekends have seen some actual progress. I guess it is all progress but when you are welding things back together it just seems like you got more done, know what I mean?
Sunday was another good day. We made up a bunch of reinforcement plates. Most of these were not straight and flat fits. A lot of shrinker/stretcher work and a ton of hole punching!
This is in the passenger side dogleg area at the back of the slider door. Lots of jigs and jogs...
http://images109.fotki.com/v786/phot...MVC002F-vi.jpg
After punching a few holes.
http://images61.fotki.com/v219/photo...MVC009F-vi.jpg
This is at the front of the pass side tub.
http://images60.fotki.com/v367/photo...MVC006F-vi.jpg
This is the strip at the rear of the drivers side during fitting. Made a few trips back and forth to the shinker/stretcher for this one.
http://images16.fotki.com/v387/photo...MVC003F-vi.jpg
Decent fitup with all of the spot welding holes punched. We got the floor side welded down then used a little pressure to push the top flange tight to the tub.
http://images109.fotki.com/v786/phot...MVC007F-vi.jpg
Here it is all welded in and primed.
http://images53.fotki.com/v665/photo...MVC013F-vi.jpg
As well as the right side front
http://images53.fotki.com/v666/photo...MVC011F-vi.jpg
Left side front
http://images61.fotki.com/v380/photo...MVC010F-vi.jpg
And right side rear.
http://images61.fotki.com/v390/photo...MVC015F-vi.jpg
All of these seams will get sealed with Eastwoods grey seam sealer and then top coated black.
These guys are in there plenty solid. The whole van rings when I tap on them with a hammer...
Thanks for looking
Mark