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Left work early to insure I could get a mig gas refill and the floorpans I needed. I ended up being disappointed in the pans my local mustang shop offered. I'd bought a passenger rear pan from them and it was really thick and nice. But when I asked for the passenger side they brought out a much thinner full length pan. The thick pan was bare metal, but the thinner one was painted with a factory black primer. I wonder what thats about? I ended up passing on the purchase because (A.) they are always high ($80 compared to $65 from Virginia Mustang) and (B.) it was thinner than what I'd got before. So why pay more for something that isn't as good.
Anyway, I salvaged the weeked by repairing the muffler on my convertible. It resonated badly at idle, but would quiet down when cruising. When I found that the muffler alone cost $90, I decided to drop the old one and see if I could weld it up. It had a slit across the middle and I welded the crack, ground it flush and then welded a strap over the repair just in case. Of course this meant I had to take it on a test ride. Cool, saved me $90, well for this summer at least.
I also welded a fabricated patch in the drivers pan on my coupe. It was very satisfying to fab and then butt weld the fix. I had a few pin holes in other parts of the pan and I used some rust converter and fiberglass for it. Could have put a whole pan in, but all in all it wasn't enough to justify the effort. Late Sunday I tried to finally get my seat belt off of the passenger side. It's nut is inside the rail spinning. I thought I could hold the belt bracket to one side and hit the nut with a spot weld and get it secure. But the weld just attached to the rail but didn't melt into the nut well. So it looks like I'm going to have to cut an access hole so I can finally weld it to the rail.
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1575122&a=11977248&p=43129085.jpg
66 C-code convertible
66 C-code coupe
65 GTO hardtop
76 Nova hatchback
Anyway, I salvaged the weeked by repairing the muffler on my convertible. It resonated badly at idle, but would quiet down when cruising. When I found that the muffler alone cost $90, I decided to drop the old one and see if I could weld it up. It had a slit across the middle and I welded the crack, ground it flush and then welded a strap over the repair just in case. Of course this meant I had to take it on a test ride. Cool, saved me $90, well for this summer at least.
I also welded a fabricated patch in the drivers pan on my coupe. It was very satisfying to fab and then butt weld the fix. I had a few pin holes in other parts of the pan and I used some rust converter and fiberglass for it. Could have put a whole pan in, but all in all it wasn't enough to justify the effort. Late Sunday I tried to finally get my seat belt off of the passenger side. It's nut is inside the rail spinning. I thought I could hold the belt bracket to one side and hit the nut with a spot weld and get it secure. But the weld just attached to the rail but didn't melt into the nut well. So it looks like I'm going to have to cut an access hole so I can finally weld it to the rail.
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1575122&a=11977248&p=43129085.jpg
66 C-code convertible
66 C-code coupe
65 GTO hardtop
76 Nova hatchback
