How many hours to do a minitub?

[BamaNomad]

I've never tubbed a car, but it would certainly seem that *access* to the interior side of the tubs would be much easier with a wagon...??

[JT56]

Yes trying to finish the tubs takes the longest. Since I have a finished car I used two different types of cordless sawzall's. I used a very long blade on the cut from the inside. Was easy to just let in cut through that area where you have multiply layers of metal(under the package tray).

Joey

[markm]

My 55 was gutted so I was able to use my Plasma cutter. More than one way and differences in tools, experience and condition of car, make no two the same.

[chevynut]

Tubbing a wagon is harder than tubbing a non-wagon, IMO. It depends on how you do it, but there are no tubs made for wagons except the stock sized ones, which are relatively new (they weren't available when I did mine).

I don't know how many hours I have in mine but it was a ton of work. I wanted then to NOT looks like tubs when finished, so I blended them back into the stock location at the tailgate. I actually built the cargo floor first, then made the tubs to fit. I used the front half of a 4-door sedan tub and hand fabricated the rest. Please ignore the dates on the pics...the camera settings must have been screwed up/ LOL!

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[chevynut]

The other thing you have to do when you tub a wagon like I did is widen the wheelhouse pieces at the rear. This is how I did it.

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[WagonWonder]

WOW!