56 Chevy (RIP)

[Snake72]

Epoxy primer sprayed on the bottom of the cab, I've had good luck with eastwood epoxy in the past, if I ever do a higher end build I'd like to try SPI epoxy.

With the cab rust repair done, I shifted to the driver door. Rusted out door bottom and lower skin as well as the door hinge mounting bracket was completely disintegrated. I ordered a new lower skin, door bottom and hinge mounting bracket. The bracket is well made but fit like crap. I had to drill out the spot welds holding the bracket together, realign everything, and reweld but was easy. Watch this video if you're doing the same repair, it helped me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=940kzxK8BM4.

The door bottom also fit poorly and does not have the factory impressions on the hinge and latch sides. I wanted to use as much original metal as possible, so I did some slicing and dicing, a lot of stitch welds, and took a lot of time between welds to avoid warpage. I made cardboard templates to make sure the curvature of the door bottom remained the same. Don't judge my amateur welds, but it came out decent. Need to fit the lower skin and then I'll finish welding and grinding. Also, I've been using the Fitzee fabrication method of "cut and butt" for welding patch panels, watch his videos on youtube, it works really well.