Rear tub separation/dissasembly (2 Viewers)

[waltermayorga]

Hi all. I'm in the process of removing rust from the tub (our every day task when dealing with 40s I guess) and I wonder if there is a way to separate the rear tub from the front without cutting

I see that there are some bolts that go with the quarter panels and attach to the pillars where the hard top sides tube enters, but I haven't seen the reason for them to be there or any other bolt to separate the tub in half. Here is an image for what I'm trying to achieve (for reference)

 

[corcel]

I'm not sure how you would access the welds going vertically along the rocker panel and front door door sills, but separating the rear/mid bed pan from the front is doable. You have about 25 spot welds that span across, with a spot weld cutter and a chisel, you can separate them. There are three pieces of metal that meet along that seem, a support channel (which it looks like you'll get a replacement for), the mid bed pan (you'll replace), and the front floor pan (you'll keep). I separated them, and then ultimately decided to replace the front as well, so I a rectangle to give myself some space, it is doable without doing so.

You can see here that I removed the rear & mid bed pan, the channel had welds across the top too, which you won't need to remove.

Ignore my s***ty welds:

 

[waltermayorga]

I'm not sure how you would access the welds going vertically along the rocker panel and front door door sills, but separating the rear/mid bed pan from the front is doable. You have about 25 spot welds that span across, with a spot weld cutter and a chisel, you can separate them. There are three pieces of metal that meet along that seem, a support channel (which it looks like you'll get a replacement for), the mid bed pan (you'll replace), and the front floor pan (you'll keep). I separated them, and then ultimately decided to replace the front as well, so I a rectangle to give myself some space, it is doable without doing so.

You can see here that I removed the rear & mid bed pan, the channel had welds across the top too, which you won't need to remove.
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Ignore my s***ty welds:
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Thanks dude, this is helpful. Long term I will have to separate it all since most of the rust is right there in the middle (where the spot welds are), so I have to replace with new metal patches