Thread: Work junk, and junk... at work. By 'junk.

Thanks for stopping in. If you ever have questions, feel free to ask. Sometimes I assume everyone is familiar with old stuff and it ain't so.

Lighting is tricky in my corner, for this spot I'm working on-



I hate LEDS, but here, enjoy the blue glow lol.







I'll be adding welds to the flange inside the trunk there. These held it still while I improved the fit, flattened things out, and patched the place where obviously there were tail light fit issues from being smashed in the past. Assorted hammers, dollies, drifts, pliers, clamps, and chisels were used to restore the contour as best I could. I'm satisfied.

Friday= short day So thats that.



Check out that tail pan... ah!

OK, out the door. Last look in case something is on fire. Yep, welder unplugged (see file 13) and gas is off. My DA can hold the floor down until Monday. If any of you have more questions, fire away.

I hit the ground runin' today so lots of pics!

This is another two-part episode, and relatively dramatic so go freshen your beverage first. I'll wait... yes you have time to go to the bathroom too lol.

I thought about it during the blown Pontiac commute, and decided I might want sit-down labor later in the week. So I bit off a big one for Monday-

Take one last look at the great valleys. I flattened out the lid some more with both knees, a Durablock and a piece of wood. Needed the cinder block to climb up safely. Also checked the centering of the lid (its not quite centered, suprise!) and evened out the side to side gaps. Shuts fine.








Without further hesitation, CHOP!






What happened there was I plug welded the gutter to the quarter so it would all hold still first. Then I made the cut. Then I used a light slapping spoon and small hammer to roll the jamb inward to an acceptable gap. Then I fitted a new strip and tacked it on top only. It laid nicely on top of the jamb at the right level on this side. The plan is to weld the top then trim the edge back to meet the jamb and weld that seam for the finish.

While cooling that, the other side was the natural thing to get going next. It took a 3lb sledge to move, and some duck bill vise grips and dolly, block of wood, etc. Pretty darn stiff but I coaxed it roughly into place. There were close calls but no bad new dents.

As you can see, this side had significant height issues that I've leveled out best I could. More of that will come later, during welding of the inner seam. A tack or two may get cut loose and moved as I go.







Keeping the timeline intact lets skip back and forth for a few-









Stay tuned for the sparky conclusion!

awesome work.

I was wondering how you were going to fix the gap! Nice work!

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Hey wait... you didn't think I'd finish this today didjya? Hell no, but hey lets see how far I got with it-











Oh I bet you want to see it closed. I do, too. Thump-








Thats starting to look more do-able, ain't it? Boy I like the looks of it much more gooder. This should please the customer when done. It cost me a little knuckle skin but thats alright... what an eyesore I'm getting rid of.

i was coin flipping myself over it a page ago. trunk or quarter what one will be moved over a 1/2 inch ? now we know the right way to fix a butchers crappy work.

forget the gap and recall the trunk lid, how f ed up that was, looking much flatter too now.

Originally Posted by Kaiser Pontiac

I was wondering how you were going to fix the gap! Nice work!

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It was a nail-biter across 3 forums lol. I didn't know until I started on it. My brain works best if I just throw it in neutral and let nature take it's course. Thank you sir.

Originally Posted by Scottydoggs

awesome work.

Thanks, SD.

Once everything is like I like it, I'll tack the edges of the trunk lid skin to the shell so that flimsy bastard don't burn me later. I killed enough time on the tail panel and nobody reacted to my wanting a new lid so here we are. Hell its only work and as you see, a guy can go quite a ways in a day if'n he stays after it. I got good sleep and took my vitamins and drank my water, all that stuff works for the young or old.

IDJ, the GapMaster! LOL

Matt you need to stop junking around lol kidding.

Now that we got that side looked at real good, lets cruise over to the bad side of Trunk town-











I got on a roll so you have to imagine another big long weld here

Everybody knows what they look like by now.

This is welded and smoothed-





Other side real quik-




Yeah, yeah.. So, can we shut it yet???










Well, those are still kinda wide- looking but theres still bondo and primer to go, and if anybody wants, I can add rod to the lid. Those jambs are as tilted in as far as I'll allow, and the whole mess is within range of filler and stable enough to final-straighten and wipe it, then live long. Theres room for adjustment so I ain't sweating a little wide, this was a big-time save as it is. Looks alright if you step back. Ran out of time to bomb it black.

Somebody brought me lugnuts so I could finally lower it to the ground!

someone spent the day spot welding i see. your welds look like you've done a 100,000 thousand of them lol

them be some awesome wheels you got there now all it needs is..........well everything else. that trunk gap tho looks like factory

Originally Posted by Scottydoggs

someone spent the day spot welding i see. your welds look like you've done a 100,000 thousand of them lol

I might have... that is scary. My aim is slowly improving lol.

Originally Posted by ericspecullaas

them be some awesome wheels you got there now all it needs is..........well everything else. that trunk gap tho looks like factory

Thanks Eric

They did have some trucky gaps when they were new. Now new truck gaps are even tight. Hell I was just shooting for consistency here mostly. And it all had to level out. You can rest assured when I snatch that roof skin, somebody is gonna get a heavy bill. I will rock on.

Originally Posted by Bronco Boy

IDJ, the GapMaster! LOL

I don't know about you guys but damn I'm tired of looking at gaps for a spell! Whew. I asked boss man if he wanted roof off next or tail panel to quarter gaps fixed. Of course he went for the big visual lol. Thanx BB.

What did I do besides read this great thread?

Is that wood wheel a Mythbusters knock-off? LOL