Finally a Progress update
Wow, it's been a while since I posted any progress on this project. Late spring I spent quite a bit of time working on my son's 59 Mercury upgrading the power steering to a Borgeson box and a new brake power booster and Wilwood master cylinder and prop valve. He really needed the steering box, when I got the original box out it was completely worn out!!
After that I worked on the 39 Ford sporadically as there was lots of other projects around the house to work on all summer.
By early September I finally had some time to work on it again so I started by getting the passenger door and passenger rear fender in epoxy primer. They had both had all the rust and dent repairs already done so I just needed to give them a good sanding again and did a little more work with the shrinking disk where I had welded in the patches.
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Here is the door ready to go mounted on my engine stand so I could paint both sides at one time.
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View from the other side with the mounting system to the engine stand visible.
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Door and fender painted in epoxy primer and back on the car.
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Another view of the fender. Looking pretty good for not having any body filler on them yet.
So on to the next metal repair project which will be the trunk lid.
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The trunk lid is in good shape overall except for the bottom edge being pretty rusty. No factory drain holes didn't help any. I will be adding some after all the repairs are done.
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A closer view of the rust. This section was the worst of it.
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The outer skin was in good shape other than a few spots that rust came through.
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I ended up making a patch for the center part of the outer skin only. The ends were solid yet and I didn't want to mess around with the ends and get the shape out of whack it I didn't have to.
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Tacked into place.
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All welded up and ground out. Up next will be the inner structure repairs. As I cut out the inner structure I will be able to hammer out this seam better, as with the inner structure still in place it is impossible to grind out the welds on the backside of the seam and planish them out.
Brian :cool: