Spent a little more time on it today, about 5 hours, and it looks like I've done nowt!
So, after welding up the doors, I made up a cardboard template of the rear door handle hole and copied it on to some of the roof steel that I'd chopped off. Tacked in and welded up.
(Obviously did this on both sides!)
Then I removed the load cover mounting brackets using a re-ground drill bit for drilling out spot welds
Then on to removing the join that the rear side windows sit against.....
Welded the two sides together - adding some strength, as these were only spot welded to that bit I removed earlier, also welded the holes up from earlier too.....
this joint took the best part of two hours on it's own - five minutes to remove the edge, hour to weld up and the rest on grinding, finding a hole, welding it up grinding, finding another hole.....you get the picture! This was because the steel is so thin on the "quarter panel" as I'd cut it off on a fold.
That's enough for today, other side joint to do tomorrow, then I'll feel confident in moving it to get the camping gear out of the garage ready for Billing.......if only I could get the truck finished for billing this year!
Aah well, maybe next year.
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