More and more little jobs keep popping up and presenting themselves as challenges and learning opportunities. As you start to dig in to the restoration and customization of a car you’ll find yourself coming up with new ideas and what ifs. What if I do this? what if I do that? Eventually you have to nail it down and commit to something and then move on to the next little challenge. A lot of this my friend is fly by the seat of your pants. And that make it really exciting.
I started with some patchwork on the inner fender after using some por15 on the insides of the unibody frame rails. I then moved on to some filler panels as well as some cosmetic welding to tie the roll-cage into the filler panels. Still a fair bit of clean up grinding needed on the welds to smooth them out but I needed to make a trip to pick up some grinding bits so I decided to move on. There are two vents just behind the front bumper. Normally these vent are plastic inserts, Instead of using the plastic ones I started to fab up a trim ring that a metal mesh vent will fit into. The last bit of welding I was able to get to was to reinforce and area on the front that the hood pins get secured to. Previously this area was just the factory sheet metal with the pin bolted to it, not the best and most safe as the sheet metal is quite thin in this area. To reinforce this area I used a piece of thick L channel that was welded direct to the roll-cage and sheet metal. It is much more stable and secure now.
Robot Rabbit 