{"id":215,"date":"2011-05-13T18:52:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T23:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/?p=215"},"modified":"2018-07-06T19:06:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T00:06:03","slug":"blasted-clip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/blasted-clip\/","title":{"rendered":"Blasted Clip!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally got all the ‘leftovers’ off the front clip and sandblasted – and it looks awesome! Now, to make some repairs.<\/p>\n

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The ‘yard dogs cut this clip off a ’72 Fastback, and didn’t really think it through or talk to each other when they were doing it. They attempted to cut it off on the passenger side ahead of torque box and remembered I wanted to keep ’em. Then the guy cutting the right side must’ve figured I’d want the frame rail too – but not the left-side guy… nope… he hacked the frame rail right off.<\/p>\n

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A shot of the passenger side – turned out really nice and no really bad spots anywhere. The car this came off of should’ve been restored instead of mine. But, the the salvage yard wouldn’t just sell me the whole thing and trade. Oh well.<\/p>\n

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Aside from the battery apron and tray, the stray cuts, and the left rear frame rail, here’s the only bad stuff I’ll need to repair. The sand blaster made the hole even bigger and uglier.<\/p>\n

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So, I cut a hole around all the bad stuff.<\/p>\n

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Found the same spot on the Rustang and cut that part out.<\/p>\n

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Then welded in the ‘new’ piece after sandblasting it. Just goes to prove that there was still some good metal left on the Rustang after all. It really did look a lot better than that – the dark stuff is really actually shiny metal with the light all wrong.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the initial slice the ‘yard dogs made in the passenger side frame rail. Almost all the way through, and then changed their minds.<\/p>\n

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And here’s the same slice after I welded it back up and ground down my nasty-lookin’ welds. Another case of bad light – that part is actually really shiny compared to the ‘blasted areas around it.<\/p>\n

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On this side, they simply cut off the frame rail behind the torque box – leaving me wondering what to do about it.<\/p>\n

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So, I grabbed a new frame rail extension from Ohio Mustang and welded it on. Had to trim it to fit, since I wasn’t planning on removing the torque box. Plus, the new one is actually bigger than the original… probably to use as a sleeve to bolster the original stuff or something.<\/p>\n

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Finally got all the ‘leftovers’ off the front clip and sandblasted – and it looks awesome! Now, to make some repairs. The ‘yard dogs cut this clip off a ’72 Fastback, and didn’t really think it through or talk to each other when they were doing it. They attempted to cut it off on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-mach1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}