Its been a while since my last post. The weather has delayed me as I have to push the floor pan out of the garage to work on the body.
The heather channels on my Ghia look pretty good from the outside.
But when you take a look underneath....The rot was hidden by a repair that even covered the bolts. You can see that the outer sill and strength insert had already been replaced at some point.
The passenger side heather channel was no better.
The next photos show the current position with the channel cut away. The spot welds along the top of the channel were carefully cut away, and the bottom edge of the outer sill split from the spot welds as well.
I think I was lucky that the outer sill was quite new, lets hope its in the right place.
Next I will prep for the fitting of the new heater channels by cleaning all areas to be welded and giving a coat of weld thru zinc primer.
I am going to clamp the channels in place and then bolt them to the pan to make sure it all fits.
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