No more Road for the Runner!

[Basketcase]

naw..read about it on the internet so it must be true.

 

[Sixtynine_Bird]

So as i promised there are some pics

Trunk floor reparation:

 

[Sixtynine_Bird]

Wheel house changing:












More will come

 

[69hemibeep]

You are some busy boys :cheers:

 

[quikbird]

that is some major work. you have a right to be proud of that!! :cheerful::applouse:

 

[Sixtynine_Bird]

thanks guys really appreciate that

 

[Sixtynine_Bird]

a bit more

some of interior parts, headlight bezel, trim, door step etc

Radio before and after:




Trim only after i polished them:


then wrap them


Door step


I don't know how you call these but you will recognise it and the things where goes the headlights before and after:





headlight bezel and front grill (sorry i don't have them when they're done i forget to take pics but here is the idea) we did primer and then apply a flat black on it :



We aligned front fenders with doors and doors with the old quarters before remove quarters and weld new one:



some repairing in the back



I sand the window mechanism primed it put grease and then replace it on the car before instamming the new quarter :


That's it for now. This is where we are at this time. Today i finished to clean up the other side window mechanism and apply a rust treatment inside the passenger door before prim it. i have to do the same for the other side.
Voilà ;)

 

[Sixtynine_Bird]

Hello folks! so a quick update of the progress.
Driver side we had to change the door jamb that is now done.
We drilled every hole we had to drill in the quarters. We did adjust the passenger side quarter and clamped it. Thus we welded the trunk floor extension to the trunk floor. That is where we are so far.
So tonight we have to make a few spot weld on the quarter then finish to weld the trunk floor extension and if we have time left we'll start adjusting the driver side quarter

See you soon! some pics will come at the end of the week or next week!

 

[phillipkj]

Progress looks great!

 

[440jimr]

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Any updates?

 

[Sixtynine_Bird]

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Any updates?

oups! Yeah a "lot" of progress I have to put some pics this week! I'm back from 2 weeks of school and 1 of holidays and I'm here for 2 weeks in my company so I have the time to work on the bird and I have to put some pics!
The rear end is now finished, and we started to patch the floors! We got a lot of repairs to do, and have to replace the front section of the floors, the one that goes from the firewall to the front holes for the bench or seats attachment.

Pics will follow

 

[Russ69Runner]

And I though mine had problem's. Doing about the same thing's to mine. Floor pan's looked good till I started poking at the rust darn. I feel you my brother my rear quarter's were half sheeted sloppy job and lot of trunk work. Replacing driver side front fender upper and lower cowl . Hinge pillar Inner cowl ok that's enough. Yea let's see pic's as you progress. Catch you latter.:nopity:

 

[Sixtynine_Bird]

I got lucky that the cowl were in good shape! I really didn't to deal with that! yeah till I started poking at the rust too ^^ I guess we should have let all that rust in place lol! once you think of it, it is a nice touch lol just kidding.

We got a lot to go with the torsion bar crossmember, it is pretty rusty so yesterday we cut out a piece of it, clean inside the crossmember and tonight we are going to start forming a new sheet of metal for replacement.

 

[quikbird]

those are available premade from several sources

 

[Sixtynine_Bird]

those are available premade from several sources

Yep, saw it on AMD website, but don't need a full replacement, only the section between the front frame rail and the rocker is in bad shape (passenger side) so we just cut out this section remove the reinforcement piece in the crossmember, made a new one that I will probably weld this evening, and need to continue the adjustment of the sheet metal piece.

Thank you for the tip quikbird

 

[quikbird]

you're welcome. keep using up that welding wire!!

 

[Sixtynine_Bird]

Here comes the pics again! Sounds like a song I bet you all know! Anyway... So!

The drivers side door jamb is now on, we sprayed (as always) some copper on the welding areas before the installation:





Now weld in place:



Then we mock up the assembly with the quarters using clamps to watch every gap or any fitment issues, and we got a lot of trouble on the LH side! The right side was pretty "easy" to do, didn't have much trouble to make it fit right, but the left quarter there was no way we could put it in and make it fit with the door! When it was in place the door wouldn't shut, it was hitting the quarter every time! So finally, we put some wedges (I guess it is the right word), shut the door put the LH quarter in place and locked the gap with the wedges! And finally we welded the quarter like that, and it turned out pretty good with a nice gap and a nice fitment :







Once the quarters were welded it was time to deal with the Dutchman panel! We found an article on hotrod magazine with a welded process showing step by step how to weld it. So we followed there advices and the new one went in pretty easy! we were happy about that! :






The tail light lenses are in also with the corner gutter, and once the Dutchman were in place we finally installed the gutters :



We also put in the taillight mount, on this part we had to do some cuttings to make it fit properly (especially on the extremity) :

 

[Sixtynine_Bird]

Then we put back the trunk lid in place to watch the gap and the fitment :

 

[Sixtynine_Bird]

So far so good! lol Now the rear is done and everything grind we move into the car and began to patch the floors and torsion bar crossmember. Fro Christmas I bought my dad the inner fender brace from us car tool. So once the floors are done we are going to weld those, now that the car is standing on jack stand to prevent any torsion of the chassis:

Passenger side:





Driver side, where you see all the pin holes circle in red this the section that we are going to replace, the one I'm talking about :





And we started the crossmember repairs, see the reinforcement is totally worn out, so take it off and made a new one with 4mm (width) metal piece :




I forgot to take a pic of the cutout section before tack the new piece we made but you'll get the point :



So that's pretty much it for now, tonight I'm going to finish the welding process on the crosmember and will start to drill the welding spots on the floor so I can remove it and put the new one in place and start the fitting process.

 

[69hemibeep]

You do know you can build a road runner with new parts from AMD and buy a deck lid LOL. That has been allot of work!