Nothing To Exciting 30 Ford Sheetmetal Work!

Customers car. He wants it all stock. Has a warmed over banger 2 carbs headers etc.



needs typical patch panels but ******* is this car solid

i need a firewall also to fix this mess







needs some sub frame work



gotta fix this hole.seems like ti was made with a chisel



tight gaps are important



see what i mean by tight?! see that little slit





this is gonna be a pain in the ***!!



the ol tape and bondo trick



fillin some random holes





some holes in the visor







some kinda mess from ages ago

 

and we are donnne



my guess was an antenna?









more random taped up holes i found.





some more damage





a few marks left from the stud gun









these are gonna be no fun. body line doesnt match to save its life




more pics when i get some more work done!!

 

Impressive !

 

well done

 

Nice work, Flop. Looks like a fun project. Most A firewalls seem to have the same holes that you see there. That's where the manifold heater ***y p***ed through. Even came with instructions to drill a series of holes in a circle to make a "knock-out" of sorts.

 

Always enjoy learning from the pros. It's one of the great things about this fantastic HAMB.

Like your body cart, similar to mine.

 

nice work

 

thanks for the pic thunderbird for some reason that heater hole scares me haha. i dont kno why... i have the patch panel to fix the factory hole gonna have to make sumthin for the bottom i guess.

far from pro brerhair!

thanks guys more pics soon!

 

nice

 

Excellent work! You find extra holes all over 30's cars. I'm guessing that roof hole was for an old radio antenna. Are those sorta close patch panels from Howell's?

 

I had to fix similarly made hole in my '35's Firewall. Seemed like they were made with a pick axe.

 

Oh and ****ing great work man!!!

 

Nice work. How about showing us the individual steps on how you go about filling a hole? Esp what to look for when things start to go wrong. I have a problem with the undercut at the edge of my weld, how do you deal with that?
Thanks, oj
Happy Thanksgiving!

 

always refreshing to see someone taking the time to do it right, grinding and filing, instead of booger welds and gobs of bondo. no reason for it when the old iron is so easy to work with when its still pretty much intact. nice work.

 

Ahhhh....noting like raw talent....
And you got if man...Excellent work...

 

Hey Flop,


Looks like you're gettin after it!

On those marginal repopped patch panels- ya can usually clean up the lines and use them by running the squared off beads thru one of those cheap Chi-Comm. beaders to soften the hard edges, and make them look alittle more oem. If ya haven't got a beading machine ya can clamp a high crowned dolly, one that closely matches the beads correct shape, into a vise, and lightly tap down the hard edges to match the original quarter panel's shape. Most repopped patch panels require more work than they are worth, and it's usually just less work to build your own.

" Life ain't no Disney Movie "

 

Nice, nice....impressive!

 

Nice work Flop. Good to see you back at it.

 

hot rods to hell idk where the patch panels are from. the guy that owns the car bought them but he said he got all his stuff from snyders in ohio but im guessing they have to be from some one else .

haha someone def went nuts with a hammer and chisel to make these ones jeffery!

OJ. i trace some sheetmetal. with a hole thats small i usually weld a stud on it with the stud gun so i have something to hold onto to move it around. i love love love tight gaps when i am using a TIG which i am on this project. Mig i usually leave a little bigger gap for some reason i seem to get better results that way. and i weld away. you can watch the weld flow into the parent metal alot better with a tig that helps with the under cut also you can beat the hell out of a tig weld and surrounding area a ton more then a mig with out fear of cracking. but usually i give the welded area a few taps before i grind and its gets me most of the way there. also my compressor **** the bed a while back and i dont have the $$ to get it fixed so im using a electric grinder with a 5 inch 36 grit disc. i cut the rubber backer down by about 3/4 of an inch maybe more and it greatly reduced the amount of grinder marks i had. its kinda hard to explain in words what i do but hope it gives ya a general idea.

thanks hdonly, autobodyed ,117.

Thanks Pimpin i have the commie roller . can ya give me a little more detail on putting it through the roller. just put it through with real light pressure and the smallest die? i dont wannt end up with another bead and having to buy another set of these ****tily made panels. also you mention making panels how would ya go about getting such a big bead?

thanks K13!

 

nice work!

 

Flop, You need to come south for a week or so this winter and work the same majic on my similar condition "A".

That **** looks killer!! People have got to see your work in person. It's unreal!!! I enjoyed checking out the shop and your car a while back. I appreciate it.



BTW...I have tons of beer!!




******Knuckles

 

Pimpin cant tell ya how much i apprecate your posts! i appreciate the time you put iinto them and how much i learn from them! Gonna tackle the square beads today i do believe


Ron i need a starbucks next to your shop then we will be in biz!
Appreciate it Ron nice seeing you and your wife .your welcome back anytime. hope your fancy cheese didnt spoil hahahahaha.

 

Imagine that! We do have one really close!! So when did you say you could come down??

Cheese mmmmmmmmm!






******Knuckles

 

"Nothing To Exciting 30 Ford Sheetmetal Work!" Shoot man, sheetmetal work always exicting, especially when the mending produces good results. Nice Work!

 

1 thing i learned today is you can beat the living hell out of 16 gauge sheetmetal.

heres another poorly made non fitting heater hole patch panel.



the mess im working with



fit



notice the extra 1/8 inch of bead



the blue line is how wide it should be.i hammered the hell outa the area on the other side of the blue line to flatten it out so the beads matched





the bottom piece really ****ed







you can see really how much i beat the living hell out of the metal



what i ended up with


cant wait to see what it looks like all welded up!!

 

Nice work! Exciting to me!

 

Hey Flop,

The fire wall looks ''total -pro" like!

On parts like that where you can see both sides once they're installed I like to be as careful as possible about leaving few ,if any, tool marks in the part. Some customers get *****y unless both sides look mirror smooth once it's all said & done. The less clean up work ya have to do, the closer ya come to finishing the job under bid. I like pieces of hard wood like maple or oak ( snagged from shipping pallets ) ground into shape to match the parts' shape, or round stock pieces of plastic like nylon, again, ground to shape and used as a calking iron. These both leave little if any tool marks on the part.

oh, yeah, thanks for the cool words-

" Do not reach greedily for the Kool-Aid "

 

one again thanks pimpin!

man i tried everything i had in the shop to get it to move before i went to the business end of the body hammer! i think if i was dealin in lighter gauge sheetmetal it would been a waaay dif story.since the firewall was 16 gauge i had a hell of a time getting it to do anything that involved curving with out m***ive amounts of force. but atleast this is a time and materials job!!!

 

Hey,

Dude! a T&M job? You are livin' life large! How big is the bump on the dudes head who owns this thing?
T & M jobs use to involve lots of liquor & naughty girls named Kandy!