Another green laner build

Nice welding lad. What are you using.

It's a Portamig 281, about the biggest you can get on single phase. It's great for fabrication work but a bit violent on the thin stuff. The torch is also a bit clumsy for body work. I have a smaller 150A torch on order, which should make life easier.

Got a bit more work done this afternoon. The only thing I could do with the right hand side of the rear crossmember was to cut out the worst of the rot then drive in a chunk of pipe that fits inside the original pipe. It's welded both sides of the chassis. The rot in the panhard rod brace is also fixed and the stupid gap above the brace filled in. For some reason the driver's side of this truck has significantly more corrosion than the passenger's side. Normally it's the other way round.
 

The left hand side of the crossmember is just patched.  

I pointed the needle gun of doom at the upper spring mounts and to my surprise they are solid with no welding needed. The only other chassis welding was a small hole in one front outrigger. As far as I can tell the chassis welding is done. Unfortunately the previous owner sprayed the chassis with stone chip, which lives up to it's name. It chips as soon as a stone hits it. I spent a pleasant few hours needle gunning it off. When the time comes I'll be using schutz to replace it. That stuff just smears if you hit it hard.

While it's up in the air I need to look at some way of protecting for the transfer case without compromising ground clearance too much. I'm thinking a tubular frame as I don't like the way flat plates collect mud.

Les found the wire wheel on a 9-inch angle grinder works as well. Im in two minds about giving the chassis a shot of Schutz . I watch your build and see how it comes up .

I find the needle gun gets into corners better. I also used a wire wheel in some areas.
As far as schutz is concerned, that's what I used on the floor of the trials car. It doesn't have huge ground clearance so the floor regularly gets dragged over rocks. Most of the schutz is still there which is pretty impressive.

Have to say I love the needle gun as well, gave the power steering box a lick of it this evening and had painted it before fitting tomorrow evening .