So one more round of welding and grinding.  I will have these re-blasted & sprayed with epoxy then use a little filler to smooth out the gaps and call it good.

There was also a small bend I needed to hammer out – before:

After:

After a bit of cussing, I have it pretty much welded-up again.  The issue was even though the hole was small, the surrounding metal was pretty thin and kept enlarging the hole as I welded it up.  A lot of short blasts and cooling off with air.  Hope to grind it down tomorrow, but will not be as picky about how smooth I get it and will coat with some evercoat to seal it up.  I used my copper backing plate which considerably helped…

Hope to sand it down tomorrow,..

Also need to replace my water trap in my air line as I detected a leak in it today – more cursing…  🙁 

Did a little more grinding of the welds.  Broke through in one spot, but the rest looks good.  That means at least one more go-around of welding and sanding this weekend.

Just a small spot to fix-up…

Broke out the welder today – haven’t used it in a year.  Was going to find some scrap metal to practice on first, but couldn’t find the right thickness, so dove right in to the inner fenders, touching-up a couple of spots.  Not a single burn-through, so I consider it a success!  Next is to re-sand them and hopefully there won’t be any more spots needing touched-up – it gets difficult to spot the areas needing touched-up the more you weld.

Inside:

Outside:

After about a year, I pulled out the inner fender that had a small crack\tear in it that I was welding up.  Was able to grind down the welds – there are still a couple of areas I want to touch-up with some welds before I can put them to rest.

Outside where I left off:

Grinding with the stone:

36-grit:

80 grit – you can see some of the areas I want to touch-up to make smooth:

Insdie where I had left off:

This is the grinder I initially used:

36-grit:

80 grit – also has a couple of spots I will touch-up.

Hope to get some more time in tomorrow.