Car now straight, and Big Thanks to Ben Harder...

[mardak at cogeco.ca (Mark)]

Nice repair job Ron!  That's definately the "right" way of doing the
repair - very thorough...  It's a bummer that damage was there, but at least
it's fixed up properly...

I didn't realize there was a hollow section to the floor there - learned
something new today!  Thanks!

Mark.
80 S
81 S  ABA/JH/4K

> -----Original Message-----
> From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
> [mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Ron Pieper
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 3:32 AM
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org; Ben Harder
> Cc: Shawn Meze
> Subject: Car now straight, and Big Thanks to Ben Harder...
>
>
> ...who came over Monday night and spent several hours doing
> reinforcement welds to Victor Jr. my
> MkI.  Ben patiently and diligently worked while Don Walter (in
> from WI - thanks for coming down!),
> Daun Yeagley, and a local new MkI owner shot the breeze and gave me grief.
>
> You might recall that I found unibody damage when changing over
> to power steering.  It seems that
> the car had suffered a "underneath" hit - I reckon that at some
> point the engine/tranny had been
> shoved back into the firewall, rotating the tranny mount/PS
> bracket up and to the rear.  To
> straighten it out, I did a combination of bending and beating.
> Bending from the outside by
> attaching a 2' piece of angle iron to the tranny mount and
> standing on it, and beating from the
> inside of the car, which required cutting the floor out beneath
> the pedals (hollow section) and
> hammering.  My my father-in-law jumped up and down on the angle
> iron while I hammered.  I kept the
> manual steering rack attached through this whole procedure and it
> fell back into place perfectly
> (I stopped and measure the best I could about a dozen times).
> Anyhow, I don't know if I can get
> it much straighter.  Ben welded the seams inside and out and also
> put a new floor in for me - he
> even provided the sheetmetal!  What I guy - I can't thank him enough.
>
>
> Anyhow, here's a good before/after photo:
> http://scirocco.dhs.org/cheapassron/misc/Bent_Firewall/comparison.jpg
> Here's the directory:
> http://scirocco.dhs.org/cheapassron/misc/Bent_Firewall/
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Ron
>
>
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