Bobbed Quarters How To??

[HntWhtTail]

Seeings though I have a rust problem and every time I wheel I seem to hit the rear quarter behind the wheel, I am thinking of cutting them at about the frame level. I heve seen alot of pictures...but. How hard is it to re weld, what shape at the bottom do you put in a flat base or what? If you have done this and have any advice(pictures), I would greatly appriciate it. Cutting will be the easy part.

 

[Pinion]

Re weld? Screw it, cut them off and be done with it.

 

[import silvia]

I cut mine and hacked in some 16 or 18 gauge steel, nothing even a little pretty. I also re-did/ran my rear wiring harnes and foamed all of the cavities with Great Stuff while I was at it. In the end it was a lot of work but very worth it for me.

 

[saint60]

i cut mine with an angle grinder and some cutoff wheels. i followed the natural line along the bottom. if i were to do it again, i think i might cut the back a little lower than the gas fill neck and bend the outside in and tack weld it. i cut the entire thing using the natural contour line and it was a little high as it cut some of the steel around the gas fill neck and made the rubber gromet not useful. i then welded some square tubing in there on the sides and some cross beams of the same square tubing to that. then i used some sheet metal and tacked that in. the inside of the quarters is what makes it tough because it is waffled/corrugated so it is hard to make a good seal. i used door foam to seal and dampen sound, bondo's and painted. i think it turned out ok. if you have decent steel still try bending it in to make it look more natural.

 

[blackandbluefj]

I cut mine off. just pick a line watch out for the filler hose grommet. Andd then I angled the back side down just a touch to give it a little cleaner look. then I just welded in a piece a metal flat between the two and a little grinding and some bondo and there it was trimmed up quarters. Hope that helps


Bryon

 

[Rig of Mortis]

I will recommend that you start on the side with the fuel filler neck, as that will set your cutting line height, based on "Not cutting through it".

Mine was so rotted out that I had to recreate the inner panel parallel to the outer panel - not fun!

This is why I sometimes refer to my truck as "Patches"

I used a heavy guage galvanized sheet metal, sealed it with POR 15, did some body filler to smooth things down where it would be visible and went nuts using POR 15 and loads of seam sealer underneath the truck and especially around the fuel filler neck where I wanted to be carefull with the welder, for obvious reasons.

I have limited pictures, maybe I'll post some when I get to my other computer tomorrow.

Also, my inner fender was rotted therefore I could not join the two peices (wheel well to body) so I decided the only thing I could do was to box in my fender lip and now that fender lip doesn't harvest a whole bunch of crud... yeah, now I've dived into it, I'll post flicks tomorrow!

 

[agent orange]

Could someone post up a pic of where exaclty the filler neck lies inside the quarter? What guage is the cruiser sheetmetal too?

 

[Rig of Mortis]

Also, my inner fender was rotted therefore I could not join the two peices (wheel well to body) so I decided the only thing I could do was to box in my fender lip and now that fender lip doesn't harvest a whole bunch of crud

Here's a photo.

It's not pretty, but it's way more stout than ever.

The second photo was from the rear driver's side wheel well, looking up and back.