michael1703
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Its progressing slowly, it was more bent than the pictures show.
It had a heavy impact which has twisted and split the A postr, the door was shunted upwards and inwards which put a twist in the B post
I have been given a front panel off a scrapped van and i'm currently taking lots of measurements to make sure i get an accurate cut and dont end up with a nasty gap
The drivers floor has been cut out as has the front valence (crossmember)
The front panel has an 'eyebrow' on both sides, as it was folded in it was keeping the panel bent inwards and upwards, cutting the panel and teasing it out with the use of timber and a tow rope has greatly improved the shape
A piece of timber was placed behind the bent panel, a tow rope stropped around it and then looped through the open jaws of my vice. With the van chocked i tightened the vice and this pulled the panel outward, whilst doing this in stages i worked the panel with a bossing mallet and hammer and dolly to shrink the folds in the steel
My front panel has been unstitched at the grill where it was spot welded, i now have to make a vertical cut with a disc and remove a section and then replicate the procedure on the scrap panel whilst allowing for the thickness of the cutting disc
Then, the next job is to butt weld the panel in place
before
post accident
work in progress
It had a heavy impact which has twisted and split the A postr, the door was shunted upwards and inwards which put a twist in the B post
I have been given a front panel off a scrapped van and i'm currently taking lots of measurements to make sure i get an accurate cut and dont end up with a nasty gap
The drivers floor has been cut out as has the front valence (crossmember)
The front panel has an 'eyebrow' on both sides, as it was folded in it was keeping the panel bent inwards and upwards, cutting the panel and teasing it out with the use of timber and a tow rope has greatly improved the shape
A piece of timber was placed behind the bent panel, a tow rope stropped around it and then looped through the open jaws of my vice. With the van chocked i tightened the vice and this pulled the panel outward, whilst doing this in stages i worked the panel with a bossing mallet and hammer and dolly to shrink the folds in the steel
My front panel has been unstitched at the grill where it was spot welded, i now have to make a vertical cut with a disc and remove a section and then replicate the procedure on the scrap panel whilst allowing for the thickness of the cutting disc
Then, the next job is to butt weld the panel in place
before
post accident
work in progress