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i moved onto the long side sill. cut it all out in one hit with the inner and the uprights.








the end of the rear most top hat section and the lower front section of the wheel arch was rusty so i cut them out and repaired prior to fitting a new inner sill.

Also made up a small section to finish up the last bit of the bulkhead.



I had to go higher than I'd hoped on the B pillar repair due to rust, I think the big holes drilled for the seat belts hadn't done it any favours. the repair section I had wasn't long enough so I had to make another one, which allowed me to make the contour to match the sill panel a lot closer than the repro one was.





Got the new bottoms of the uprights welded in.

All ground back.







Some detail of the inner sill welded to the "I" beams and outriggers etc...

Nice work as always Josh

I was a little unsure when mocking up my uprights, so I looked back through a few threads and found some guys get the bottom of the uprights to meet up with the bottom ledge of the inner sill panel and others don't. When I was mocking up the repair sections it was either A: have a gap at the bottom and have a snug fit along the curved side to the outer rocker, or B: have them touch the inner sill and have a big gap/poor fit along the curved side. So I checked out the old section I cut off and could see that the originals never met up with the inner sill. So I went with option A and got a nice fit along the curved side, but because I liked the idea of them meeting the inner sills I made up some little brackets and plug welded them in.





Now just mocking up the outer sill panel.

Good to see you back at it mate, looks the goods.

Nice clean work as always! Thanks for the updates

Thanks fellas, your comments help keep the momentum up. It has been a while between posts but I'll try smash a few more hours into it soon.