Yes put it in before you remove the trunk floors ,just dont weld to the old trunk floorI managed to get a folding shade tent from my father-in-law so I can get back to work on the car. It's simply been too hot to work outside under the unrelenting sun.
This also arrived over the weekend. It's definitely a thicker gauge than the original. Feels as thick as the material used for the torque boxes. @horse sence Should I go ahead and install this before I remove the old trunk floors? If it's self-locating it might help keep everything aligned while I work on the back end?
Perfect. That's what I was thinking. Thanks.Yes put it in before you remove the trunk floors ,just dont weld to the old trunk floor
It’s too bad you don’t have access to a metal break, though with all of the crazy angles it probably would be pretty difficult to fit it in there.So I've decided that what I'm going to do first is cut along the inside of the top of the door sill hump (inboard of where the door sill screws go). I'm going to hammer the bend flat so that it will be the same width as the hump on the original rocker, and bend the inside portion of the outer rocker/remove material as needed to join the two pieces back up. At that point, I'll section more out the outboard flat portion of the door sill if I need to to make the outer section flush with the original.
Sounds complicated, but I'll take some pictures tomorrow that will hopefully make it all clear.
I was thinking the exact same thing. I used one for an afternoon once when I was taking a prep course for my A&P. Nifty tool to have.It’s too bad you don’t have access to a metal break, though with all of the crazy angles it probably would be pretty difficult to fit it in there.
I did insert some pieces for reinforcement that I cut from the rest of the new rocker after taking those pictures (kind of like your rocker patch on one of your fastback conversions). I don’t think screwing it down completely would fix the gaps, though. Might help just to better see where I need to remove material, though.Slip a piece of rocker inside and screw it down let it hang over enough to slip the patch rocker over and screw the patch to that ,that may help flush the surface between the old rocker and the patch
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