tiistai 9. elokuuta 2011

New floor!

Sorry for the radio silence. It's been a while since I've had the chance to do anything significant to the dear old Chevy, but now I finally have something to write home (or here) about.Namely, the new floor is finally in place.

I've been clearing out all the bits and pieces of the old floor over the past weeks and welded in place some new metal to the toeboard, so that the new floor can be attached. I also put in some new braces to the doorways, just in case.

Finally today we (I had help from a friend who has built a total of four (4) '55 Chevys in the past) we got the new floor in place. I'm glad Janne R was around for the operation, since I couldn't have accomplished it alone.

We did the replacement by traditional methods. First we lifted the body off the frame using the pulley and the garage lift, rolled the frame out and placed the new body mounts and floor on the frame. Roll frame back under the body, lower the body back on the frame and the new floor, and presto! New floor seemingly in place. Well, we actually only welded the floor in place from the transmission hump and the inner quarter braces. Reason: we're missing the body mounting bolts. Getting them soon.

Next step is to get the mounting bolts in place to secure the floor to the frame, weld the toeboard-new floor seam and start working on the rocker panels. The car is getting new inner quarters and a new trunk floor in the future, so we're working our way from front to end, so to speak.

Anyway, a few pics, if you please!

The frame ready for the new floor pan.

The toeboard needed some cleaning and welding in order to prepare it for the new floor. This pic is somewhere from the middle of the process, I think.

Yeah, sits nicely in place.

It's a bit surreal feeling to have some new metal in the car, that's just been sitting with a rotten floor for the past 4 years.
The new floor and the body ready to meet up. It was carefull going, like trying to cure a dhiarrea by farting.








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