How best to remove a quarter?

Hey Pak, unfortunately, I haven't a clue. Good to hear about progress though.

I would sawzall beyond what you need and drill out spot welds in the comfort of your own garage.

I'd probably cut it inside of where the tank goes and get the rear of the frame rail while your at it, cut across into the inner wheel well, then down along the outside of the frame rail past the quarter then out thru the rocker panel. You can always take more off, but you have to weld to put it back on. Better to take more than you need than not enough, plus it'll help you to see if yours is buckled behind the quarter or not.

BTW, in college, we just drank the glass and spit the quarter out.

the BEST way would be to drill out the spot welds of course, but use a plasma cutter to cut the panel off.

Pak...call me tomorrow before your really hose this up with this novice advice. Remember, I do restorations, and NEVER NEVER NERVER EVER cut on a body line or crease!

George

plasma cutter works but the best tool is the air nibbler if you have one. the panel will come off in less than 5 minutes and it is a clean cut. Also, there is no worry about the heat from the plasma cutter. It leaves a clean cut so you can easily weld the new 1/4 on too.

[QUOTE='69Mach1Chick]plasma cutter works but the best tool is the air nibbler if you have one. the panel will come off in less than 5 minutes and it is a clean cut. Also, there is no worry about the heat from the plasma cutter. It leaves a clean cut so you can easily weld the new 1/4 on too.[/QUOTE]

The nibbler is a good tool IF you can't afford the best tool which is the plasma cutter. PC's cut without any warpage. You guys are killing me! For crying out loud, an air chisel can do a good job if you know how to cut with it.

65fsbkhipo said:

Pak...call me tomorrow before your really hose this up with this novice advice. Remember, I do restorations, and NEVER NEVER NERVER EVER cut on a body line or crease!

George

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yup. look what my novice advice got me.

65fsbkhipo said:

Pak...call me tomorrow before your really hose this up with this novice advice. Remember, I do restorations, and NEVER NEVER NERVER EVER cut on a body line or crease!

George

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Now, I'm taking a little bit of offense to this if your implying my advice George.

The last I knew, this parts car was out in the sticks, not in someone's shop with every tool known to man at Pak's beck and call. I specifically bought a 18v Dewalt drill / recip saw combo just so I'd have a cordless saw to take to the salvage yard or someplace out in the country to be able to remove a quarter or a cowl where you can either use that or a smoke wrench and I don't like the idea of catching a field on fire. My buddy had a '67 Fairlane 390 XL that had a bad cowl and firewall. I found a good cowl on a '67 station wagon that I cut behind the shock towers, across the floor and windshield posts in a salvage yard. They wanted $250 for the whole car and we paid $75 for the firewall/cowl and we didn't need a trailer, loaded it into the back of his shortbed. His dad took it and used an air chisel and drilled out spotwelds to take it apart to get the parts he needed, put it back together and you couldn't tell Ford didn't do it. This man has done several '57 Chevy 'verts that have sold at close to 6 figure range at places like B-J in Scottsdale.

That said, I said to take out way more than you need, so you can cut off what you don't while the new quarter is within sight of the old one. Having not seeing current pictures of both Pak's car and his parts car (like pics are that great to give 100% advice to, no body shop worth it's salt will give you an estimate off internet pics), I stand by my advice.

Pakrat said:

BTW 1320, I do have pics of the parts car on the last page of my website if you need to see exactly what we are talking about.

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Who is your webhost for 69stang.com? I see they use Mambo CMS.