It's Friday! I must have something to talk about
Well, actually several fridays have went by, but this stuff drags ass!!
I decided to finish the trunk, (top AND bottom) and finish the tail section where I could get it in a few coats of etching primer.
While the rear has been
close for several months now, the nit-picky stuff required to even think of
primer much less paint, made the rear section a mile off.
So I removed the trunk and stripped the bottom to bare metal filled the weld gap w/ bondo and re-hung it. Filled and sanded the taillight panel where the section weld was, built some trim rings out of .080 x1/2 mild steel to surround the "stealth" exhaust tips, and filled and smoothed the rear bumper so I could say that I'm done w/ the rear end.
Here is Fk up # 237. Fortunately This can be sanded to increase the gap somewhat. I don't know how I got it so close, maybe I can twist the bumper (hell, maybe
it twisted) No, actually I just suck. This really pisses me off!
Guess how many times I about cut my head off by sticking my head into the trunk w/ a welding hood on my head and bumping the 3/4" piece of conduit holding it up? (That'd be another one of my stupid stories that I
wouldn't be around to tell) You cant see it but the bottom of the trunk edge is actually two pieces of 16 ga steel welded together. The trunk weighs about 30lbs w/ that damn spoiler on it so lets do the math shall we?
30 lbs, traveling a distance of 2.5 feet should have the sufficient speed to hack my head clean off, given the edge thickness of the trunk lip vs my neck.
Well that prompted me to fabricate the trunk lift shocks that you see hanging. They aren't hooked up yet. I haven't welded the bottom mounts in as of this pic. (You can see the damn sun is going down so fast I can barely get these pics taken)
Here is the trim ring that I made. I hated the exhaust tip just hanging out through a hole cut in the 18 ga. valance. So I made these one leg at a time, tacked it, adjusted it to fit, welded it and moved on until I had the rectangle you see here. It's rosette welded from the back side.
So Now, I'll move on to the passenger side and complete the mind numbing task of hand sanding
that entire side (yeah!)