Builds Rebuilding a 40 but no longer in a 1 car garage. (9 Viewers)

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This surface showed too much curve. I had to make a releave cut to get it straight.

The marking shows the position of the cut.

 

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Putting the pieces together.

The releave cut helped to shape the part to its correct shape.

You can see the cut here. The outside of the curve needs to fit the floor.

With the rocker and B pillar in place.

 

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Now for the connecting piece.

Shape needs a little tweeking.

This is a better fit.

Cut lines drawn.

Almost there.

 

[YoYoHo]

Great work keep it up

 

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Great work keep it up

Thanks, I wish I had more time to spend on it.

 

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Fitted the crossbeam in

 

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Did some more hammering and E wheeling for a good fit

Cut the excess to the floor patch off.

 

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All in the correct position.

Top corner corrected and made some spot welds.

And made the top piece, ready for cut and weld.

 

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Gastank out.

There is enough dried mud in the frame.

 

[Bripars40]

All in the correct position.
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Top corner corrected and made some spot welds.
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And made the top piece, ready for cut and weld.
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The amount of work your putting into these corners is exactly why I’ve avoided rebuilding mine.

 

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The amount of work your putting into these corners is exactly why I’ve avoided rebuilding mine.

I just want to learn how to do it.
The other corner will be a lot easyer.

 

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This morning I woke up and realised I made a mistake.
As this 40 was subject to a roll over there is no reference in the body.
And at the moment 5 of the 6 body mounts are gone, this is also the reason it takes a long time to fix the corner I’m working on. I realised this morning that I had the floor to low in the rear and had to raise it.
Started with placing all the pieces in position and using the measurements taken from the opposite site.
Used the cut out section for reference.

 

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Mocking things up for now, try to stiffen up everything so I can take the rest of the tub off the frame.

Tightened the tub to the frame on this point, thinking of turning 4 disks, to temporary replace the body mounts, to mount the tub on the frame before welding stuff together.

 

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The corner fits now, I just need to cut the top to size.

 

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Cleaned up this patch and added some primer.

Turned the temporary body mounts.

 

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Welded up the B pillar, at least most of it and started to allign everything on the PS.

The crossbeam and the temp body mounts in position on the PS.

Having the PS kick planel in position is important as the A pillar is lose ar the bottom.
It is interesting to see how everything relates.

 

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Next step screwing everything

And fitting the opposite side.

 

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And fitting again.

Curved the outher side of the left centre support for the tub.

 

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Tacked in the floor patch and cleaned the rear section of the floor.

I turned some discs to position the body mounts in the centre of the holes in the frame.
The body is just a little bit off in the rear and I need to fix that before tacking the centre beam together.
Once everything is in its correct position I will screw it together and remove the tub.

 

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The front tub is screwed together now and ready to be taken off.
I looked at the drawing in the fsm and decided to fabricate a jig to rebuild the tub.
The base construction will be made of wood with adjustable tubing to achieve the correct mounting point height for the connecting points. I can use the jig to hang the tub in a rotisserie at a later stage.

What you see is the entyre wiring harness the PO used. Just enough to get it running.