Repairing the body panels is the first step to body work. Used the compressor and air gun to clean all the excess media from media blast. Girnded off all the left over body filler to expose metal. I will shape the metal with shrink disc and hammer and dolly to get a smooth level surface. Also replace panels that are not workable.
I have used the hammer and dolly on this section with some quick results. Tomorrow I will use the shrinking disc.
I need to prep the metal with wax and grease cleaner before welding to get a good connection.
The head lamp buckets can not be saved. I need to get new buckets to replace these crusty buckets.
Head lamp buckets are tacked in with about 5 welds on tabs located on the front panel. I drilled the welds out but it was tricky not to completely damage the tabs. I will reinforce the tabs before putting in new buckets.
I received new headlamp buckets from cip1 and they are a very close fit and match to the old buckets. Minus the holes drilled in the back of the buckets (for 67+ bug) all the tabs and mounts fit perfect.
http://www.cip1.ca/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=C21%2D0182
Links and Stuff
http://krayden.com/tds/henk_metalprep_79_tds.pdf
http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/stylespilotshop/metalprep-79-quart-msds.pdf
Evercoat gold body filler
Metal shaping tools
Mig gas
