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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Yeah, rust repair is a real time eater. You are making fast progress...lotta hours and effort. Looks good.
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
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We finished welding the top of the inner panel today.
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Looking better and better every time..
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Thanks reaper.
We got the two inch strip tacked in place to lower the wheel opening. We finally got the Easy Grind mig wire today so we can start welding the body panels back together later this week.
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We finished the welding on the two inch strip yesterday. Today we got started on the body panels. We started on the passenger side. The seam took some massaging to get it to line up. i guess the factory allowed some variation from front to back.
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Lookin good!
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Your work continues to just have me grin and shake my head.
You guys really are so far up that curve. Amazing progress, and love the infills etc.
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
WOW! I wanna skip ahead and see this thing finished so bad but I also like seeing the progress on builds like this.
Amazing work!
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Thanks pimpston.
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![]() Today we got the drivers side partly welded. Then we decided to fit the wheel well so we extended the wheel center line. Then test fit the wheel well and found it had to be trimmed to fit between the front and rear braces
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When got the wheel well closer we had to remove more of the inner panel front and back
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Yeah, plus I haven't quite finished my time machine yet.
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Nice alignment on that panel. Will come out nice!
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Thanks Joe
Thanks A.D. The General didn't build this thing exactly the same from front to back so we had to do some more work to make it line up. See today's pictures. We had to make a horizontal relief cut in both drivers and passenger sides
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Here's the passenger side welded and cleaned up.
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Nice work! I would like to be hanging out having fun in the shop with you guys!
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With your skills we would be lucky to have you come hang out
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Yesterday we finished the welding on the drivers side. Then we found that the inner fender was rubbing on the quarter panel so we cut a horizontal line on the inner fender. We used a hammer and dolly to fold the edges in a little then welded it back together.
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Wow!!! Keep on twist'n!!!
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Nice work on the seam. That takes a lot of time.
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Looking good .What's the plan on the front end leaving stock or lengthen it?
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Thanks A.D.
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We got started on the spot welding. We also did some more hammer and dolly work on the rear of the driver side.
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Here's a couple of shots of the passenger side wheel opening panel all welded. And a couple more of the drivers side fit in and the tacks started.
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
We finished the welding on the drivers side except for the hole left by the gas door. So we made a patch and tack it in place.
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