Continuing with the Framehead Closing Panel Repairs

This is the last part of the closing panel roughly cut to size, cleaned up and coated in zinc rich primer on the inside face.

Here you can see the above panel roughly in place. Again, the white circle on it was a dent that was dressed out before priming the other side. The rest of the closing panel is clamped in place and I've started to make the repair parts for each end, where the main chassis bolts pass through. Here they are roughly cut to size from the reproduction repair panel.

Now the end repairs are trimmed to a correct fit. At this point they were cleaned up, aligned correctly and tack welded into place. The whole panel was removed again and these repair pieces then fully welded.

The welds were ground down and the panel re-primed on the inside face.

The whole panel was then clamped back into place ensuring correct alignment and tack welded.