1971 Chevelle repair

[ruralrte66]

X2!!!!

Gregg

[Too Many Projects]

Work has continued, just slaking on posting. The right side patches are all welded in.





Needed to make a patch for the rust at the valance mount.








Cut that from the excess wheel arch panel.








Next was to deal with the bumper fit. The quarter was installed too low at the rear, and the corner sat right on the bumper, while the body line at the trunk lid was level. The corner was 3/8" too low, so I cut the back corner of the quarter off. I needed to move it up on the outside and keep the body lines as aligned as possible. That necessitated cutting the corner into 3 pieces.





I had to weld in a sleeve here to fill the gap left by moving the left side down so the body line was flat.





First 2 pieces of the pizza welded in.











Body/paint guy has something to do now...





Refit of the bumper and I have a fairly straight line across the back and an even gap to the left side.














It isn't perfect, but it's a lot better than what I started from...

[Too Many Projects]

Moved on to the last rust repair on the right side. Quarter was rusted thru at the tail panel.





Cut the seal gutter from a donor piece left over from a late model Malibu we had in the front shop...







Second piece was from a left over piece from another project.



I used the shrinker jaws to give it the correct radius to match the car.









Back to the left side to install the gutter channel. The quarter to tail panel had a big difference in opinion of fit.



I cut out the excess and welded it back together and then down to the tail panel.



Then it was time to install the gutter. This is the same piece that was attached to the original quarter. I ran it thru the blaster cabinet and then spent some time untwisting and bending it back to the original shape to fit. It came out really nice.