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Old 07-30-2008   #103 (permalink)
RallyBob
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A little rust repair work. The jackpad was totally shot. I thought the frame was 100%, but it had a bit of blistering, so I cut away some of the outer skin and the bottom skin. I didn't have and mild steel in the proper gauge to weld back in, but I had some stainless steel, so I figured, 'What the heck!'. The underlying 'real' framerail section was in good shape other than some surface rust, so I ground that rust away and painted it over with some high zinc weld-thru primer before capping it.

I also started to patch the rust hole in the floor and to re-create the driver's side jack pad, but the recent heat and humidity has cause me to neglect this for the past few weeks, so I haven't gone any further on it. I did pick up some 1.125" chromoly round tubing with .083" wall thickness which will work perfectly as a jack 'tube' on my re-created mount.

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