{"id":1328,"date":"2014-02-09T15:51:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T21:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2015-12-31T15:56:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T21:56:24","slug":"feb-9-2014-update-patch-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/2014\/02\/feb-9-2014-update-patch-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 9, 2014 Update – Patch Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had some remaining work from the floor patch panel from last summer. \u00a0I had to get the old brake bracket off the old floor – will need to weld it to the new floor later.<\/p>\n

Here is the bracket on the old floor:<\/p>\n

\"IMG_0524\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I started by drilling out the spot welds I could find:\"IMG_0525\"<\/a> \"IMG_0526\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then I used a body saw to cut it out with the old floor metal still on it:\"IMG_0527\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then I used my vice to hold it while I worked on getting the old metal off of it:\"IMG_0528\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This body seam buster came in real handy:\"IMG_0529\"<\/a><\/p>\n

You can see some of the spot welds I had missed:\"IMG_0530\"<\/a> \"IMG_0531\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Used my grinder to smooth the old spot welds down:\"IMG_0532\"<\/a> \"IMG_0533\"<\/a>Will put this in the blast cabinet and prime it before welding to the new floor.<\/p>\n

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I had some remaining work from the floor patch panel from last summer. \u00a0I had to get the old brake bracket off the old floor – will need to weld it to the new floor later. Here is the bracket on the old floor: I started by drilling out the spot welds I could find: … Continue reading Feb 9, 2014 Update – Patch Panel<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camaro","tag-body-work-drivers-floor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}