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Front rocker panel removal - am I screwing up the Dash Assembly?
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I'm re-doing my outer rocker and inner member. I think the inner sill and castle rail will be ok with a bit of cleaning up and patching.
So, as I understand it the outer sill and inner membrane come together at the top with the inner sill, held together with spot welds. In the front, they are secured to what BMH calls the Dash Side Assembly. I've been trying to drill out, with some success, the spot welds that hold everything together. I've done ok, but am worried that I'm doing too much damage to the Dash side assembly, which I'm not going to remove. I'm using a 5/16" drill which usually gets most of the spot weld, but sometimes I need to go after it with a chisel.
Does the spot weld that holds the outer sill to the dash assy also hold the inner membrane? I would hope so since I would otherwise have no way of finding them.
Is this the right way to remove at the front? Am I doing too much damage?
As always, thanks
So, as I understand it the outer sill and inner membrane come together at the top with the inner sill, held together with spot welds. In the front, they are secured to what BMH calls the Dash Side Assembly. I've been trying to drill out, with some success, the spot welds that hold everything together. I've done ok, but am worried that I'm doing too much damage to the Dash side assembly, which I'm not going to remove. I'm using a 5/16" drill which usually gets most of the spot weld, but sometimes I need to go after it with a chisel.
Does the spot weld that holds the outer sill to the dash assy also hold the inner membrane? I would hope so since I would otherwise have no way of finding them.
Is this the right way to remove at the front? Am I doing too much damage?
As always, thanks
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Aug 30, 2016 10:48 AM
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Just go ahead and drill all the way through all the spotwelds in that location. Easy enough to fill in the holes later and it will make life less destructive.
If you go to Cardomain and do a search for NOHOME you will find more sill work pictures than you can stand! The above is from the red 1967 GT
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3882315/1967-mg-mgb/photo-gallery/
Edit: Cardomain is is a pretty crappy board anymore, so you might get a lot of 404 messages when looking for the pictures. Very hit and miss. The main blogs seem to work more often than not.
What are you using to separate the metal after drilling? I use a thin wood chisel to minimize distortion.
Pete
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2016-08-30 10:52 AM by NOHOME.
If you go to Cardomain and do a search for NOHOME you will find more sill work pictures than you can stand! The above is from the red 1967 GT
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3882315/1967-mg-mgb/photo-gallery/
Edit: Cardomain is is a pretty crappy board anymore, so you might get a lot of 404 messages when looking for the pictures. Very hit and miss. The main blogs seem to work more often than not.
What are you using to separate the metal after drilling? I use a thin wood chisel to minimize distortion.
Pete
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2016-08-30 10:52 AM by NOHOME.
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