Thanks Dave! Copy away dude!

Got a lot done this weekend. Mel was out yesterday and we got the brackets for the rear closeout panel built and welded in and got the flanges made to start rebuilding the back of the floor.
here are some pics of the rear brackets being put in. We clamped up some sheet stock to hold them for plug welding.
http://images56.fotki.com/v1298/phot...MVC001F-vi.jpg
http://images59.fotki.com/v426/photo...MVC002F-vi.jpg
After welding. These are pretty strong even with just a few welds.
http://images60.fotki.com/v778/photo...MVC012F-vi.jpg
To show you how strong these are we had to do a little tweaking to bring the angles into line... This is Mel using a hand seamer on the 18ga to bend it after welding. No issues with weld strength here.

http://images20.fotki.com/v1590/phot...MVC011F-vi.jpg
Once got those welded in we made up the actual strip that the closeout panel will get fastened too.
These are 1 1/2" wide strips of 18ga. I will drill them for Dzus fasteners after we have them finished and the panel made.
http://images60.fotki.com/v661/photo...MVC015F-vi.jpg
All welded in. The plug welds were nice and flush. These strips will get seam sealed to the tub after all of the fab work is done.
http://images12.fotki.com/v532/photo...MVC018F-vi.jpg
An over all of the area we are working on
http://images49.fotki.com/v566/photo...MVC020F-vi.jpg
Once the welds were smoothed off with a flap disc we moved on to make the lower flange.
This is the passenger side.
http://images58.fotki.com/v448/photo...MVC022F-vi.jpg
And this is the drivers side. These will get the Dzus fasteners.
http://images14.fotki.com/v777/photo...MVC024F-vi.jpg
The upper four link bars will intrude iinto the interior by a few inches at full jounce so we cut a couple of clearance notches to give them room.
http://images52.fotki.com/v640/photo...MVC025F-vi.jpg
We designed a little flange to close out the back of the floor and give us something to weld the rest of the floor too.
Here is the design with some dimensions.
http://images50.fotki.com/v1527/phot...MVC006F-vi.jpg
And here is the part. We bent this up out of 20ga on the 3 in 1.
http://images57.fotki.com/v505/photo...MVC005F-vi.jpg
This is the flange clamped in place between the suspension notches.
http://images46.fotki.com/v400/photo...MVC003F-vi.jpg
That's what we got done Saturday.
Thanks for looking.
Mark