{"id":249,"date":"2011-05-22T19:10:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T00:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/?p=249"},"modified":"2018-07-06T19:19:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T00:19:09","slug":"take-an-inch-take-a-mile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/take-an-inch-take-a-mile\/","title":{"rendered":"Take an inch, take a mile…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The right side torque box came out relatively easy. When I jammed the scraper into the seam sealer between the ‘box and the firewall, it poked straight through into the cab. OK – time to fire up the body-saw and do some trimming. Still got some bad metal in there, but I’ll worry about that later when it’s time to cut out what’s left of the floor pans.<\/p>\n

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And finally, got the driver side torque box removed. Turns out the floor on that side was a little more gone than I first thought, so I wound up just cutting this one out as well. Just like on the passenger side, I’ll be removing the leftover torque box ‘flashing’ by more drilling of spot welds.<\/p>\n

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No more torque boxes – got the real Fred Flintstone look going now. Now I gotta get the rest of the frame rails out and score some metal for the firewall patches.<\/p>\n

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Didn’t feel like cutting any more, so I decided to get all of the rubberized undercoating off the firewall. Looks like only a couple of minor bad spots that can be repaired with some flat sheet metal (later). Cleaned up pretty nice.<\/p>\n

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Since I was heading out of town and it would be a week before I got back to it, I put a first coat of Rust Bullet Black Shell on the newly cleaned firewall. This stuff is awesome! Can’t wait til I get the cowl repaired and painted, and slide the new front clip under there – It’s Gonna Pop!! LOL!<\/p>\n

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Looks kinda weird seeing something that looks almost ‘new’ on this car. Shouldn’t be too much longer til the front clip goes on.<\/p>\n

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The right side torque box came out relatively easy. When I jammed the scraper into the seam sealer between the ‘box and the firewall, it poked straight through into the cab. OK – time to fire up the body-saw and do some trimming. Still got some bad metal in there, but I’ll worry about that […]<\/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-249","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\/249","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=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}