Well that sucks!! Silly electronics eh! Gotta be a pain in the *** tooling through the phone on here. Hopefully it pans out for ya Dave.
Great to here you got some lute for your Roadrunner...Spend it..Spend it fast!!!
Wraped up the last little bit on the drivers side quarter. Took care of the factory AMD flaw on that area where she dips down in the trunk gutter..
I know most guys that stop by and take a peak at this thread and the guys that regularly come and visit know how to repair a problem like this, but I figured I'd toss on the repair for those who haven't run into this problem before. This is just they way I go about relief cutting to fit. Obviously different folks, different strokes, but this is what works for me.
The issue is where the quarter steps down into the gutter. Up at the curve it does not step far down enough to mate up with the trunk gutter rail and is also too wide.
Made a relief cut in the first drop........
After the cut was made, used a long arm body/vise clamp to mate the quarter drop to the trunk gutter properly, then tac welded......
Welded in the relief cut as well as where the quarter meets up with the deck filler panel in the gutter panel....As you can see the AMD quarter drop is too wide for this area as well
Made another relief cut in this area as well....
Used a body hammer/dolly to bend in/shape and then lightly shaped a bit more with a 35 grit mini disc on a die grinder....
Weld over relief cut area....
After some grinding down then sanding with 35grit and moving on to 80, this area is rough finished for now... I'll eventually finish off with some 180-220 and possibly 320 thereafter.
Also finished welding up the fill panel supports as well the trunk deck lid latch support as planned.***Note to self...... Have someone give you a hand next time lining up a latch support. Crawling in and out between the braces in back of rear seat area gets pretty old after the first several times** Another 20 years or 20 pounds, that wouldn't be happening anymore. More work planned tomorrow!!
