Hello all,

It took about four days to get the pans fitted and welded in and I'm fairly happy with the result.

I have done some research here and think the way to go is: starting with one side, to remove the quarter, inner and outer wheelhouses, and old dropoff, then fit everything together using sheetmetal screws or tack welds. Is this correct? I was going to replace the inner and outer wheel houses before the quarter, but have read here that there could be problems with quarter panel to wheelhouse alignment. I'm picking up new door shells from ground-up at carlisle, and will overhaul my hinges before installing. Do you think that it will be okay to use the old rear bumper and brackets to line things up? Is there anything else I'm missing? Thanks in advance for your help!

-Kevin

We cut the whole the whole floor out, then one quarter and outer wheel house. Cut off the rotten bottom of the inner house. Pieced the whole thing together, added new bottoms to the inner houses, then welded all that together. When it was done we did the outside section of the trunk floor and welded it solid. Then did the same thing on the other side. We didn't weld the floor solid on that side, but left it loose and put the center in position then the outer section. By leaving the center section out as long as possible we had easy access to the repairs on the inner wheel houses.

don't weld in your wheelhouses until you fit them to the quarter

Use tech screws as "removeable welds" to hold everything together. Put as much together as possible with the screws because several parts will line themselves up with others as you go and due to variences in aftermarket parts some trimming/fitting may be necessary.

I clamped my 1/4's to the outer wheel house and then jockyed the whole assembly into position and then clamped the OWH in position and removed the clamps around the wheel well, Fit perfect when I put the 1/4 back on.

LK