Sum_Fing_Wong's Project Levin

[Sum_fing_wong]

Hey gang, finally found some time to do a bit more work on the car, cleaned up the cuts lots of measuring and premeasuring, once I was happy with the measurements. I tied in the frame rails to the rest of the floor. Basically when cutting out the floor for the equal link boxes it takes some of the frame rail flange with it so for a portion of the cut the floor and the frame rail is no longer connected, so some welding is needed, hopefully the pictures will closely reflect what I've said here.





once I've tied the frame rails back into the floor I went ahead and started drilling out the flanges on the equal link boxes so that I can plug weld in the boxes, instead of welding in either side of the flanges. With tired arms and shoulders as well as two burnt out bits here's what it looks like with 100+ holes in the flanges looks like. The reason why I decided against welding in either side of the mounting flange is ... it would be hard to get the welder in at the correct angle to ensure a nice weld also the plug welds will look neater, although there will be some areas where in combination with the plug welds I will weld on inside and outside of the mounting flange ... hum hopefully it makes sense in what I'm trying to explain. if not I'll try to re-iterate with pictures once I get the boxes welded in, I'm currently waiting on some supplies before I weld in the boxes.






I also made a patch (see picture below) as once the passenger side equal link box is welded in there will be a hole where debris and water and what have you could be able to make its way in the car. with trial fitting I've determined that once the box is welded in it would be near impossible to go back to weld up that hole, can't have that happening, so I plugged that sucker up while I still could.



Stay tuned more updates to come !