FINALLY....got my bronco welded....few questions...

[rusty ol ranger]

My welder and race car buddy finally got my rear sill welded up on my B2...

Not the prettiest job...but i told him i didnt care about looks....just solidness lol.

Anyways...i need to treat it to keep it from rusting the fresh metal. The topside ill pry just hit with some rustoleum (unless you got a better idea), but the bottom side what do you think is best? Im also gonna smear seam sealer in the empty spots. He said he had trouble in some places getting welds to work.

He used a piece of rectangle tubing as a structural basis...im going to get some rubber caps to cover the ends to keep shit from getting inside. As well as plug the bolt holes.

 

[pentode]

I'm far from an expert welder/bodyman/metallurgist and I look forward to seeing better ideas but I did some body welds last fall that were going to be exposed to winter salt etc, but that I couldn't get to with paint or sealer, so I just hosed them down with Fluid Film to see how they'd survive. No corrosion that I can see so far, I continue to be amazed at how well that stuff slows down the rust.

 

[Blmpkn]

Corroseal and then paint

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Yup, I’d prime/paint bare metal as best as possible and hit the anything that will be exposed to weather with Fluid Film or some sort of grease/oil/wax type protection

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

If the metal is clean I would use DTM. Direct To Metal paint. Then fluid film.

 

[pentode]

When you guys have a spot that's in an awkward enough spot you can't properly paint... any tricks there? I've found that in bad spots, trying to flood an area with paint invariably leads to awful pinholes that seem to suck water in and just make things worse in the medium/long run, whereas oil or fluid film kind of creeps and soaks in and is relatively airtight, if not totally permanent.

 

[Roert42]

When you guys have a spot that's in an awkward enough spot you can't properly paint... any tricks there? I've found that in bad spots, trying to flood an area with paint invariably leads to awful pinholes that seem to suck water in and just make things worse in the medium/long run, whereas oil or fluid film kind of creeps and soaks in and is relatively airtight, if not totally permanent.

I like Rick’s method of thinning the paint down a lot so it pulls into the nooks and crannies, then doing a top coat. Hold good.


@rusty ol ranger your friend is not a good welder, not that you gave him much to work with.
If that dirt man was here he would have a field day with your pictures.

 

[Uncle Gump]

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

I like Rick’s method of thinning the paint down a lot so it pulls into the nooks and crannies, then doing a top coat. Hold good.


@rusty ol ranger your friend is not a good welder, not that you gave him much to work with.
If that dirt man was here he would have a field day with your pictures.

I've noticed that pictures of welds always look worse than in real life. Mine... Anyway.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

I've noticed that pictures of welds always look worse than in real life. Mine... Anyway.

Thats the case here too. Those pics he actually sent me before he was totally done with it. I seen it in person yesterday it looks better atleast to me.

Im going to pick it up tonight. Ill try to get better pics.

I like Rick’s method of thinning the paint down a lot so it pulls into the nooks and crannies, then doing a top coat. Hold good.


@rusty ol ranger your friend is not a good welder, not that you gave him much to work with.
If that dirt man was here he would have a field day with your pictures.

There wasnt much to work with. He said even it wasnt his best work lol. But if you seen what it looked like before its a 100% improvement.

And its 200% better then i coulda done. I really dont care, there will be carpet/trim over it anyways i just needed it to be solid...which is seems to be

 

[SenorNoob]

That patch needed to have been about 6" wider methinks..

 

[sgtsandman]

That patch needed to have been about 6" wider methinks..

But then it would no longer be rusty there...

 

[rusty ol ranger]

That patch needed to have been about 6" wider methinks..

You talkin the sill piece?

That rusty piece behind it is where a plastic filler panel goes which is part of the bumper. The bumper is pretty fucked too lol.

EDIT...

Ok, not really part of the bumper...but its not really important to vehicle structure.

I dont think.

Heres what it was before...

What you cant really see in these pics was the original rear sill was basically dust where the mounts mounted. When i cut it out literally 75% of the bottom panel fell on the ground (and in my eyes)

I should add the only reason the floor was level in those pics was because of the jack...once i removed that there was probably a 2 inch gap between the floor seams by the filler neck.

This is what happens when i see shit i want and i have cash in my pocket. My judgement gets real foggy

 

[rusty ol ranger]

Got it home. Let the games begin lol

 

[Blmpkn]

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Got it home. Let the games begin lol

Lima swap.