So this past week I was at a conference in Orlando, FL.  I did spend a little time in the garage yesterday with the nice weather and was hoping to get to bonding it today, but other things came up and now I hope to get to it next week.  So all I got done, was stripping the areas where I will be using the 3M bonding adhesive down to bare metal and cleaning with wax & grease remover.  I used a marker as a guide for where to strip to:

Hopefully this next week I can get the pieces bonded together.