The front and rear bulkheads are now mounted on the chassis. The
vertical panel behind the seats was rusty and damaged so I have replaced
it along with the tail shaft cover. I finalized the mounting of the front
bulkhead by attaching both doors and the front shroud to it, clamping it
in place to the inner sills then rotated it at the saw cut point mentioned
previously until I was satisfied with the height of the shroud at the front
and the height of the doors at back edge. I had the rear bulkhead sitting
in place at the time to compare the door height at their top edge to the
height of the rear bulkhead. Once satisfied with the fit, the footwells
were installed and welding began. note - the firewall/cold air box assembly
was spot welded before installation into the bulkhead. for all other welding
I have used oxy or arc welding (unfortunately I don't own a mig) I have
used plug welding technique to areas that were spot welded and plain arc
welding for the rest.
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