Red Line- Customers 45LV Resto Mod Build " Pope's rig"

[RLMS]

Final welding of our power steering frame plate kit, before we final place and weld the AA box mount

 

[greenbeast]

I would kill to have AC and PS in the LV. I am planning on replacing the SB chevy that came with mine with 2f next spring. Appreciate your sharing all this, it's an eye opener indeed!!

 

[RLMS]

I would kill to have AC and PS in the LV. I am planning on replacing the SB chevy that came with mine with 2f next spring. Appreciate your sharing all this, it's an eye opener indeed!!

You bet

 

[RLMS]

Our Power steering conversion, frame side (kit) is done! Fully welded and verified for fitment. We use 4 bolt, 4 turn large input spline, Inverted flare fitting, Red Head steering boxes from monte carlos for small tire power steering conversions.

Justin

 

[RLMS]

Its time for the notorious REAR TAIL GATE rust repair. The lower section is "donzo" so off it must come. Going to rebuilt it from scratch
The outer shell is marked for high and low points. The outer shell was blasted with soda, so no warpage would happen, she is in worse shape than we wanted.
I may just have to make a new skin at this point!

Justin

 

[RLMS]

Sorry, guys I failed to show the rust holes after blasting the bottom of the tailgate, in the previous post!

 

[RLMS]

Bottom hinge area being marked and cut. We ended up going higher on the inside of the gate to expose and start repair of the vertical structure!

Justin

 

[RLMS]

Lower interior structure has to be replaced, So We cut off the bad sections, and revisited the OE flat shape "per say" and cut them out on our plasma table

 

[RLMS]

Bent and welded back into position

 

[RLMS]

Fitment check with the old lower section before we re weld the inner lower section we removed to repair theses sections

 

[RLMS]

Replacing the inner side if the tailgate we removed. Slowly welding and cooling as we go.
We will be applying a rust/ weld etch primer made by SEM before we close ourselves out. We also have to remove the mild scale surface rust layer. Since we are in the middle of the rebuilding process we will use a wire wheel.

 

[JLawson]

Top Notch! Thanks for sharing!

 

[RLMS]

Slowly ground down and smooth. Grinding can create heat warpage also. So we use air to cool and pherd brand grinding disc of all kinds to create what we want!

Justin

 

[RLMS]

Made templates of the lower hinge pieces. 14 gage plus 3/16" for the bolt plates. The plates we will burn out on the table, fine tune with the vertical sander and have the bridgeport mill thread the 8mm holes.

 

[Owyhee Jackass]

Thanks for sharing the process you go through. What plasma table do you use and what CAD software?

 

[KT40]

That looks great!!
Care to make a few extra sets?

 

[RLMS]

Thanks for sharing the process you go through. What plasma table do you use and what CAD software?

The table is a Plasma Cam, Ive had it for 9 years, so its getting outdated, But it still does the job for us!
We will be looking into a Torchmate with a water base table next year.
The PC has been great for what we've put it through, I will say that. The last 2 years we have replaced every item, bearings, slides, wiring ETC.
As for software, we use Auto Cad and Solidworks.

Justin

 

[RLMS]

That looks great!!
Care to make a few extra sets?

I have the files saved so Depending on what you need, we could burn out the pieces

Justin

 

[RLMS]

Burned out the the lower tail gate section. Going to burn out and start fitting this section as well as the hinge pieces

Justin

 

[RLMS]

Burn , bend and started rebuilding