Day 48 - Door Jamb and more rear window malarkey!

Today, I went ahead and replaced the door jamb with the new one from AMD. This is an excellent part. Its super heavy duty and comes with the striker bracket on the back. I had marked where i removed the old one, however this one seemed a little bit shorter when it came to the lower part of the door sill. I took my best guess and spot welded it into place.

Travis continued working on the interrior lower rear window frame. This required a custom piece to be fabricated and fudged into place. I know this isn't the perfect way to do this, but I am not going for a show car here, just a daily driver.

We also attached the new door for a test fit.

Day 47 - More Quarter Panel Removal

Today Travis and I removed the lead from the joints of the roof and quarter panel. Then I removed the rest quarter panel. Travis worked on the rear window frame trying to manufacture a lower corner.

Here is a video of the lead melting:

Day 46 – The dreaded rear window frame 2

Okay, so the show has been on hiatus since the last post. I had a few issues with the welder we just couldn’t figure out. Now that has all been squared away we can get to rebuilding the rear window frame piece by piece. Each piece was made by creating a template with some poster board. Then transferring that template to metal and then cutting it out. We then had to fiddle with the fit for a while before tacking each piece into place.