Been busy cleaning the square tubing with Eastwood Metal Wash and using some weld-thru paint on the areas where I am going to weld. I want to re-use the jig, so am taking some extra steps to both protect it and practice these things for when I work on the car!
I will provide the measurements of the various pieces later:
Setup for cleaning some of the tubing:
Cleaned and ready to weld:
I need to drill mounting holes and prime these plates:
Got some more holes drilled. Should be able to start welding soon – just have a few more holes yet that need to be drilled.
Drilled the holes for the set screws this weekend. Used the new drill press – I’m happy with it so far! Also got the clamps on sale from Harbor Freight!
There is a hole on 2 sides of each 6″ piece of 2.5×2.5’s
These are now all done:
Need to drill a few more flat pieces:
I ordered a welding respirator for the fumes from welding. I also ordered a portable welding table from Northern Tool – hope to have these be next weekend!
http://www.envirosafetyproducts.com/half-and-full-facepiece-welding-respirators.html
http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200342949_200342949
Done with the cutting unless I screw something up and need to re-cut something! Next I can focus on drilling some holes with the new drill press!
Got some 6″ 2.5×2.5’s:
and a few 2×2’s, angle irons, plates, and misc pieces – I will post the guage and lengths as I start welding as a picture is worth a 1000 words (or so I hear!):
A few extra pieces:
About 150 Zinc plated nuts and bolts to use as set screws:
Also have a mess to clean up from all of my cutting – that dust went everywhere! If I had it to do over again, I would use a band saw!:
Got the 2×2 plywood base on my drill press… Need to go to Menards and get some cutting oil so I can start drilling!
Got the 2×2 Base on the drill press last night. Also re-did my air compressor fittings so they now bend out of the way instead of sticking straight out. Also got all of my metal tubing cut that I need for the Jig! I just have some angle iron and 4 plates to cut before drilling the holes for the set screws. Then I can start welding!
All of the 2.5×2.5 are cut into 6″ pieces. Still need to cut the 2×2’s. Bought a drill press for drilling holes for the set bolts:
Need to mount the bottom to the 2×2 board. Has a laser sight, and a light bulb. 16 speed 260-4220 RPM. Didn’t have much workbench space, so I went with the floor model from Menards.
Got some garage time in this weekend. Worked on the body jig. My design is complete and the next step is to cut up the 2.5×2.5 and 2×2 metal tubes. Got to use the cut-off saw for the first time. I quickly found out that cutting these will be time consuming!
My setup:
Three more 6′ sections to go!
These will be cut into 6″ sections. This is from one 6′ section – three more to go and then start cutting the 2×2’s!
Got the passenger side firewall bracket removed:
Little bit of cleanup/buildup of the firewall along with patching the floor:
I was relieved to have the Plasma cutter to cut up the old firewall bracket in pieces which helped immensely in the removal!
Haven’t been out working on this as much as I would have liked. After my dad’s visit, I was busy cleaning up and catching up. Now I am getting ready for the first week in June which is when I build my front deck and build a shed to help organize everything. I did get out in the garage this weekend, but was mostly organizing and cleaning!
While working on removing the passenger side Firewall Bracket, discovered some more rust near the toe board so I ordered some floor pans from Ground Up to use for patch pieces (I was a little disappointed with the pans not having more of a toe board – luckily I should be able to get by with what I have):
Pictures of the cancer:
Also purchased a new Chop Saw from Harbor Freight. Also got some replacement metal blades and a roller. Will need this when building my Jig around July:
Hope fully next weekend I can get the passenger side Firewall Bracket removed – there is not much left to do with it.
Just about have the passenger side firewall bracket removed. Good thing I am replacing them because the bottom was pretty much rusted out! Used the plasma cutter to cut most of it out. Also used the seam busters to break the spot welds. I tried drilling the spot welds out, but had difficulty locating them. Need to order some floor pans to cut out the toe boards from. Doubt I will get much done next weekend as I will have company this week!
