{"id":927,"date":"2012-12-16T16:54:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T22:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/?p=927"},"modified":"2013-01-20T16:56:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T22:56:22","slug":"toe-boards-dec-16-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/2012\/12\/toe-boards-dec-16-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Toe Boards Dec 16, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

When removing the firewall brackets, there were some tears and holes from the removal process:<\/p>\n

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I wanted to take advantage of having the hole for accessing to smooth things out. \u00a0There was a tear right where I need to cut which I wanted to repair:<\/p>\n

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So – I went to Harbor Freight to buy a hammer and dolly kit to use rather than ordering one from the internet and waiting. \u00a0I still might do so to get a higher quality one later, but this met my needs for now:<\/p>\n

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After using the hammer and dolly to get it somewhat flat again:<\/p>\n

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Then I ground around what I will be welding with a\u00a0wire\u00a0wheel brush:<\/p>\n

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Used some Eastwood Metal Wash to clean the area and sprayed with some U-Pol weld-thru primer. \u00a0It was roughly 30 degrees outside, so I kept the garage thermostat set to 70 all morning, then turned off the heater and sprayed two coats 20-30 minutes apart. \u00a0I used a fan to help air out the fumes and after an hour or so, turned the heater back on and all was well!<\/p>\n

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I also changed the wire in my welder from .030 (from the jig) to .023 for the car sheet metal. \u00a0I will brush-up on some spare metal and then weld-up the holes. \u00a0Then I should be able to do a final cut and weld in the toe-board patch! \u00a0Might be able to get some more done throughout this next week starting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When removing the firewall brackets, there were some tears and holes from the removal process: I wanted to take advantage of having the hole for accessing to smooth things out. \u00a0There was a tear right where I need to cut which I wanted to repair: So – I went to Harbor Freight to buy a … Continue reading Toe Boards Dec 16, 2012<\/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":[18],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camaro","tag-toe-boards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","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=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}