G'day X, I've done lots of work on the 718, there is just not much progress to show
The rear door entrances and side panels have been spot welded in place but I haven't done the floor yet.
For the last 3 weekends I've been chasing "imperfections" in the floorpan.
Firstly when we welded the long side panels I ended up with a slight curve in the side rails, due to the continuous line of spots. This was fixed relatively easily by welding a temporary beam in place above the rails and carefully using the porta power jack.
Secondly I discovered the rear floor rail, just in front of the rear door was 6mm lower than the other mounting points (one would think from abuse in it's earlier life) yet the middle body support metalwork was undamaged
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......I gave up trying to figure out "how" and fixed that.
Thirdly, the left rear corner was 3mm lower than the right. Once again I thought this was due to abuse, but I discovered it had been welded in place that way, so I realigned and re-welded it in the correct place.
Whilst 3mm is not a lot it was throwing out my string line from front to rear down the side rail.....I've now pretty much got a square/flat floorpan which should make it far simpler to fit and align the top body structure.
I took the low tech approach to fix all the problems (as you'll see in the pics) but it's works
This weekend I plan to do a heap of welding on the platform and hopefully it can go out in 3 or so weeks to get blasted and epoxy coated.
I trust all is going well with you!
Regards from Oz!
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