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

[RLMS]

Big issue, resolved at the front section. The perimeter flange was not as good as we would have liked, That's life. Pin holes from a shifter boot, had to plug those up.

Justin

 

[RLMS]

More, more, more....Day 2 ......uggggg

Justin

 

[AdventureToolCompany]

Love the thread! Keep it coming!

 

[RLMS]

Day 3......

 

[RLMS]

almost there.....

 

[RLMS]

Spot welded and cooled as we went around. We still have the perimeter rust to take care of.

 

[RLMS]

Going back to the front floor area and dash tear down and doc, for a couple hours to break up the sheet metal fab. We find rust, not much but enough to sigh some :/

Justin

 

[wngrog]

Are LV transmission covers unique to only the LV? Seems like a lot of work if you can just use an uncut 40 cover of that era

 

[Garrissey]

Bravo!

 

[RLMS]

Are LV transmission covers unique to only the LV? Seems like a lot of work if you can just use an uncut 40 cover of that era

OLD OE number is 58206-60070, for the 40, 43, 45. so yes by my indications in the OE 1964 parts catalogs. But I couldn't find one that wasn't any better..

 

[RLMS]

Bravo!

Thanks

 

[Tancruiser]

I think they are unique to the LV that’s been my experience. You’re only on day three I’m on year three.

 

[RLMS]

Back to the dog house, Drivers side scab patch work begins. I found a donor 40 dog house that was messed up really bad, but luckily it has this section in good shape! Again, the method that worked well with this was spot welding, slow say 6 or 7 of them, cooling them off with air. Then repeat, repeat, repeat...lol
We use a big welder for 75% of rust repair. Most body shops have less powerful welders, but we have a great setting over the 15 years of doing this with a Miller 252. 14-15.8v to say 286-315 WF depending on thickness. If that fails we go to our Big Miller Tig. Tig welding takes 4 times the labor hours to weld, set up time takes forever compared to a mig.

 

[RLMS]

Then we had to fill a bunch of tiny random pin holes. Again used the Mig with pliers that have a copper plate on the back. Fills the holes good with less metal blow out!

Justin

 

[RLMS]

Dog house is done. Now for the seats that have removed. We needed to get these large items out of our way and also to document hardware, find the issues with any of the framing etc.. We found the front had been redone, the rear was actually in decent shape, had some patching, overall pretty happy!

 

[RLMS]

Rear seat was in again pretty good shape, some weird stuff here and there, but no issues that can't be corrected

Justin

 

[RLMS]

Seat frames are off to Sand blasting. Bolts are documented, off to the next thing. The dreaded rear hatch and tail gate. All the rust hides in the back. That's a fact...lol
If anyone has a good LV Tailgate handle assembly, Please let me know..... l'm going to need one, this one has the normal splitting issue. Rust is starting to show it's normal ugly face.
Justin

 

[JLawson]

Ahh, the rear sill, that is always a special place for LV owners!

 

[Tancruiser]

Oh nothing a little plywood and 3 pounds of bondo can’t fix.

 

[xtremeVA]

...just another day in LV-land. My rear sill will need 100% replacement when I get to that point.