Let's watch Bob question himself all the time but nailing it et the end. It's not rocket surgery, you are doing great Bob! Keep on welding, grinding, glueing, wrenching on!
Little tip, instead of scribing your cut lines for patching, secure your patch panel over the original metal and secure the two together in position, screws, magnets, clecos, clamps what have you. Then you cut both the old panel and the new patch panel together at the same time using a thin cut off wheel. This will ensure that your cuts will match up perfectly and the kerf from the cut off wheel will provide you with a 2 plains of surface area for the weld to adhere and recess. This will make it 10000 times easier to metal finish, less of a weld peak, retains panel strength and ultimately way less body filler. Keep at it.
@@Iliketomakestuff And from other videos I've seen (Fitzee?) you should make your cut at an angle not straight across so the new piece overlaps the old one ever so slightly.
in my former life I did quite a bit of sheet metal fitting panels to restoration cars - Helpful tips: (1) Get yourself some TEK screws (little short 3/4" long phillips sheet metal screws with self tapping drill bit tips and wide flat washers made onto the heads) EXCELLENT for temporary panel fitment, esp with a battery drill- after all weld tacks are made, remove the screws and Mig the holes over (2) dont bother with a spot welder on that type of thing, it works fine for flat metal like a tool box or metal cabinet, but that type of spot welder sucks for curvy car panels, just drill a small 1/4" or 3/8" hole in ONE PANEL and rosette weld with your mig and grind flat with your 90 degree air die grinder and flap wheel, you arent building a pebble-beach numbers matching 100-point resto car here, and for your first job, youre making things WAY harder than they need to be! (3) Never grind with a cut-off wheel (whiz-wheel) also, ditch those brown fiber cut off wheels and get a $14 Lenox white -painted metal diamond wheel from Home Depot or Lowes for your angle grinder! they last for THOUSANDS of cuts and dont explode in your face if your pinch them or get twisted while cutting
perhaps more so than "regular" ILTMS videos(DIY, around the house, prop-stuff) , Bob's natural tendencies as a teacher really show through in the Karmann Ghia videos more to me than the others. Maybe it's just me but the car videos stand apart because we can see what is often totally foreign problem solving in real time. Idk know exactly what it is, but today this video really spoke to me...and I'm not a car guy.
Very nice work Bob, these video's are a real motivator for me to continue welding as a total amateur, on my truck cabin floor thats full of holes. The thing I learned so far was to leave a tiny gap between the two panels before welding them together, to ensure a good penetrating weld. I've used butt welding clamps for this and they worked flawlessly!
i remember being 10 y.o when my brother bought me a miniature model karmann ghia and it has been my dream car ever since. you're living my dream dude. please keep the videos coming, loving em!
I work in the body shop at a luxury car manufacturing plant in South Carolina. I would definitely start with the rocker panel. It’s a core part. A fender in many ways is a hang on part so I would leave it for later but as far as installing it you could create a bracket on the back of the panel and weld it to a framing piece. It may still need adjustment but that’s typical. Hang on parts typically need adjustment.
Every time I see these videos or hear about the ghia on the podcast it makes me want to get back to working on my 74 bug. I’m in the same spot welding panels on and you’re definitely helping motivate me to keep going!
Nice progress Bob. As a owner of currently 6 VWs in salt spray Pennsylvania, I relate to this series haha. I've got an 83' Rabbit GTI that I need to hang a rear quarter and rocker on. My dad bought it brand new and was t-boned a year later and the repair didn't hold up well. It hasn't been driven since 97', though I did have it running a few years ago. I have to finish replacing the floors in my XJ cherokee before I think about starting more body work. Keep up the good work.
@@Iliketomakestuff once you're finished rebuilding the body of your car, you can use a special wax to seal off all cavities, only leaving easier to access parts in the future. This should make your car endure salt and water for much longer times.
I bought a mig welder years ago and thought it was ruined in a hurricane (Florida, completely flooded the storage container). But I pulled it out the other day and it still works! Now, seeing your video, it's making me want to get back into welding just for fun. Keep up the good work, man! Can't wait to see it finished!
YESSSSS FINALY THANK YOUUUU 😎🫵🏻👍🏼 Just love this type of work , when i was 16 i bought an old Trans Am and worked on it with a pro and still have good memories about it , just like you’ll have 👏👍🏼🇨🇦 Oh by the way the pinchy thing that you had it’s called aligator clamps and the handle is a cleco clamp .
Great job so far Bob. May I suggest watching Home Built By Jeff. He is brilliant at showing/teaching bodywork etc. I've learned loads from him. You will to.
Bob all your work looks fantastic considering its your first time. Others have given good advice. Here is mine. When I did all this on my C10 I used Metal to Metal body filler over all the welds before body filler as it is waterproof and will seal all the little pinholes there might be in the welds. Looking good!
Bob, get yourself some Dykem blue in the spray can. Spray the cut area with the blue’ing, place your patch panel in its spot, THEN scribe - the blue makes your scribe so much easier to see and you’ll get much more accurate cuts. Car is looking good!
I just subscribed to the channel. I'll be on the journey you"re on with the Ghia soon. I have a 1973 Ghia myself and it needs about the same work as yours. Thanks for the bravery and talent. It helps me, help myself to one day start my own project. I really appreciate and admire your work ethic. Keep up the good work!
Definitely want to encourage you to keep going with this, these are some of my favorite of your recent videos. It's especially interesting to see how to approach something when you're *not* an expert with 10,000 hours already into something, but trying to apply transferable skills. Keep up the great work! 👍
Ahhh.....metal work.....the BEST thing about cars! 😂👍 She's coming along! It's really funny, I started watching your videos because I knew nothing about prop work and the things you know tons about. I'm a car guy and a welder. So to watch you learn as you work on this car is very cool and fun.
I have a little welding experience and I have to replace a quarter on my daughter's pontiac. I've been putting it off, scared to mess it up. You have inspired me to get off my butt and get outside to my welder.
Wanted to stand up and applaud at the end of this one. It was obvious you were really happy with the progress and your accomplishment at getting this done. Car looks better every time you show it. Keep at it and you'll soon be ready for your next car project. 😁 Thanks for sharing!
This series is great. I always want to see more. Although I think you totally 100% got this, You questioning yourself does make the video more exciting.
I love it, you keep talking about the car on the podcast and at last we can see what is happening, I don't know for other but i like that project and i would like to see more if possible. I will be doing body work for the first time this year and it's cool to see the process you went through and demystify it ! thank you.
You picked a huge project for something you haven't done before. There's going to be a steep learning curve but you will figure it out. Keep at it and it will be the best feeling when you have it completed.
I’m pretty much in the same place as you on my 68 Ghia restoration. You are going much faster, as I spent years researching before I had the nerve to tackle it. A few suggestions: Those rust repair panels need modification before you weld them on. The shape/profiles are sometimes not very close to what they should be and need to be tweaked. Also, they arrive with the CHEAPEST primer on them. Strip it off and apply something better before you weld and seal it up an area. Same for the heater channels. They need to be dry fit on the pans, then straightened, the welds on the nuts need to be reinforced, and then the inside need channel primer sprayed in them. I’m also concerned about your door fit. I chose to take the body off, do all the prep, and then put it back on the chassis for welding the channels and rockers. The body sits differently on the chassis and small amounts of flex can create a headache for getting those doors aligned, though more so with mine, since it’s a convertible.
Thank you! You know, I watch these videos where people will build an entire car frame from scratch, attach body panels, and have an entire running vehicle with perfect body panels by the end of the day. I start thinking, "wow, that must not be as hard as I thought it would be. I could do that." Thank you for the reality check. I am glad you were able to work it out.
Great build. Im renovating a house atm. 2nd guessing myself all the time, wasting too much time in the cloud of self-doubt, completing the job 100 times in my head before I even start.....but they're all necessary processes to make the finish right. You weren't an amazing wood-worker overnight I'm guessing? Keep on keeping on, you inspire people like me. Much love from the UK 🤜
8:40 in the holes you drilled and filled is called puddle welding. And the flex in the rear panel you wedged , if you stepped the new panel and slipped it behind the original it would create more structure and you could either fill weld the line or drill the original and 'puddle weld ' the 2 together
Keep up the good work Bob. Remember it's a process. Nothing will fit right and you will hit hurdles but just keep chiseling away. You will get it done. Looks great so far.
Remember this day, because when you drive out of that garage for the first time it will all feel worth it. Building a car is not easy and it doesnt happen over night. Keep going and it will slowly happen! Congrats on a big step forward! I cant wait to see this thing.
Bit of advice, when trying to mate up new and old panels, clamp the new and old panels in place and cut both new and old panels at the same time so the cut is perfect with no overlap.
Great to see it all coming together! On the other side of your punching tool is another tool (don't know the English name). Instead of making butt joints on your sheet metal, use that tool to make the inner plate lower and do regular spot welds on top. Then grind it down. The ONLY way i know this is because I learned this yesterday 😅
You sound like you were getting frustrated at the start of this video, glad you stuck with it. I'm loving this series. I know making the vids makes things 10x harder, so thanks for doing it.
I love the Karmann Ghia series especially because you don't know what you are doing. I do woodworking and learned mainly by looking at channels like yours on TH-cam. It's sometimes intimidating because it always seems simple in those videos. With the Karmann Ghia, we see to not fear learning new skills, and that the best way to do so is to tinker with it, a step at the time, and that we will do mistakes and learn a lot more because we will have to figure out how to fix them.
thank god you said you were going to glue them in the last video I'm so glad you went the welding route ps try to get some Torx bit door hinge bolts Philips style bolts are renowned for rounding often
Also for spot welding you can drill holes in one panel and use a simple mig welder to weld it on and then stitch weld along the seem to avoid heat distortion. Also you might want go invest in what's called a "body saw" which is more or less a pneumatic jig saw.
Use short self tapping screws insted of the clecos, that will hold it in place so much better, and it will provide you with extra holes for spotwelding :)
1:40 pinchy clampy sticker had my 3 year old car nut of a son rolling! it was so silly it earned my subscription and makes me wanna work on our projects even more now!
Great work after a small amount of bondo and skim coat with paint no one will know lol I'd look into metal door shims to help adjust the door rearward so that the lower front doesn't rub, good work brother and keep up the amazing work
I'm loving these videos. Wish you had more time to work on the Karmann Ghia, but I'll take what I can get. I'm wondering if designing and building a car from scratch might be a project you'd take on. Less patch work, more fresh new metal and you could take it in any direction. Just putting that out there.
To keep the metal cool while welding, get a big sponge and dip it in water, wring it out and hold it close to the area to be welded. Just keep the sponge damp.
Hy Bob great job, but when you welding side to side part you need to have a little bit of the metal part of the solid part that goes under the new one. In this way you creat a support for the material and the rework is better
You have to hold it in place till it turns red maybe about 6 to 8 seconds. Bought the same one from harbor freight and it worked perfect. Spot welded a whole truck bed with it.
Also! Grind the black primer like paint off the new pieces and spray weld through primer on the area you grinded. Then proceed with the steps mentioned above.
2:40 I would have thought you wouldn't have wanted to cut on that line, but flange the panel to that line. The butt weld seems difficult and not the strongest, but a flange would be easier to hold in place and more material to weld.
That is one way to do it, but from all of my research I found that the flange becomes a place that eventually will start to rust, as a small amount of air can exist in it. I'm sure there will be certain locations where it's a better option though 👍🏼
@@Iliketomakestuff cool. I'd seen that on a bunch of shows/videos and it made sense to me. But I also liked someone else suggestion in the comments of clamping the panel in place and cutting thru both panels to get a perfect match rather than scribing and trying to cut to the line.
When welding lap joints do tend to rust out sooner than butt joints. If you're doing a lap joint in a non structural area you can use panel adhesive in lieu of welding. Completely coat the flange surfaces with the adhesive and use some flush set rivets and it'll do pretty well at preventing rust in the flange.
Sometimes having a 3/32 or smaller gap between your panels isn't a bad idea when mig welding body panels so you get full penetration. If you have no gap and are too cold it's not uncommon to get under penetration. Good job on rocker panel, body gap turned out perfect.
Let's watch Bob question himself all the time but nailing it et the end. It's not rocket surgery, you are doing great Bob! Keep on welding, grinding, glueing, wrenching on!
Thanks dude!
Rocket surgery?
Does that require an aerospace engineer or a M.D.?
@@danielwesley5051 both
@@danielwesley5051 yes
Yes, it's not rocket surgery, it is just car surgery.
Little tip, instead of scribing your cut lines for patching, secure your patch panel over the original metal and secure the two together in position, screws, magnets, clecos, clamps what have you. Then you cut both the old panel and the new patch panel together at the same time using a thin cut off wheel. This will ensure that your cuts will match up perfectly and the kerf from the cut off wheel will provide you with a 2 plains of surface area for the weld to adhere and recess. This will make it 10000 times easier to metal finish, less of a weld peak, retains panel strength and ultimately way less body filler.
Keep at it.
Interesting! I'll have to look for a super thin cut off wheel.. that seems like it'd be incredibly important there.
@@Iliketomakestuff a body workers little death wheel are usually pretty thin the air powered ones are the way to go
This :-> Pluse these "Sealey Butt Welding Clamp Set 4pc" = perfect welds.
@@Iliketomakestuff And from other videos I've seen (Fitzee?) you should make your cut at an angle not straight across so the new piece overlaps the old one ever so slightly.
Progress is a beautiful motivator. I can see your excitement brewing, and it's very cool to watch. Kudos, and keep up the good work!
Thank you very much!
in my former life I did quite a bit of sheet metal fitting panels to restoration cars - Helpful tips:
(1) Get yourself some TEK screws (little short 3/4" long phillips sheet metal screws with self tapping drill bit tips and wide flat washers made onto the heads) EXCELLENT for temporary panel fitment, esp with a battery drill- after all weld tacks are made, remove the screws and Mig the holes over
(2) dont bother with a spot welder on that type of thing, it works fine for flat metal like a tool box or metal cabinet, but that type of spot welder sucks for curvy car panels, just drill a small 1/4" or 3/8" hole in ONE PANEL and rosette weld with your mig and grind flat with your 90 degree air die grinder and flap wheel, you arent building a pebble-beach numbers matching 100-point resto car here, and for your first job, youre making things WAY harder than they need to be!
(3) Never grind with a cut-off wheel (whiz-wheel) also, ditch those brown fiber cut off wheels and get a $14 Lenox white -painted metal diamond wheel from Home Depot or Lowes for your angle grinder! they last for THOUSANDS of cuts and dont explode in your face if your pinch them or get twisted while cutting
perhaps more so than "regular" ILTMS videos(DIY, around the house, prop-stuff) , Bob's natural tendencies as a teacher really show through in the Karmann Ghia videos more to me than the others. Maybe it's just me but the car videos stand apart because we can see what is often totally foreign problem solving in real time. Idk know exactly what it is, but today this video really spoke to me...and I'm not a car guy.
Wow, that's really cool to hear! Thank you! And I'm very glad to hear for reasons that you'll eventually find out about ;)
I hope there will be more of these videos. It's a nice change of pace from the one off builds
You got Jammed! Nice parks and rec reference.
This is one of my favorite series on TH-cam. Low key deserves its own channel. Really exciting to see you out of your comfort zone!
Bob. You are goals for the channel I want to start. Thank you for all you share and do. Failures and successes.
Coming together Bob. Excited for you!
Very nice work Bob, these video's are a real motivator for me to continue welding as a total amateur, on my truck cabin floor thats full of holes. The thing I learned so far was to leave a tiny gap between the two panels before welding them together, to ensure a good penetrating weld. I've used butt welding clamps for this and they worked flawlessly!
i remember being 10 y.o when my brother bought me a miniature model karmann ghia and it has been my dream car ever since. you're living my dream dude. please keep the videos coming, loving em!
I work in the body shop at a luxury car manufacturing plant in South Carolina. I would definitely start with the rocker panel. It’s a core part. A fender in many ways is a hang on part so I would leave it for later but as far as installing it you could create a bracket on the back of the panel and weld it to a framing piece. It may still need adjustment but that’s typical. Hang on parts typically need adjustment.
Every time I see these videos or hear about the ghia on the podcast it makes me want to get back to working on my 74 bug. I’m in the same spot welding panels on and you’re definitely helping motivate me to keep going!
Nice progress Bob. As a owner of currently 6 VWs in salt spray Pennsylvania, I relate to this series haha. I've got an 83' Rabbit GTI that I need to hang a rear quarter and rocker on. My dad bought it brand new and was t-boned a year later and the repair didn't hold up well. It hasn't been driven since 97', though I did have it running a few years ago. I have to finish replacing the floors in my XJ cherokee before I think about starting more body work. Keep up the good work.
They salt the roads here, so I'm sure that I'll be battling rust on this thing (or maybe my kids will)
@@Iliketomakestuff once you're finished rebuilding the body of your car, you can use a special wax to seal off all cavities, only leaving easier to access parts in the future. This should make your car endure salt and water for much longer times.
I bought a mig welder years ago and thought it was ruined in a hurricane (Florida, completely flooded the storage container). But I pulled it out the other day and it still works! Now, seeing your video, it's making me want to get back into welding just for fun. Keep up the good work, man! Can't wait to see it finished!
You are amazing trying stuff you have never done. Good job love this series.
Glad you enjoy it!
Bob happy to see a new video on the car restoration. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Fab On. Weld On. Keep Making. God bless.
PROGRESS!!! I love seeing this thing come together.
YESSSSS FINALY THANK YOUUUU 😎🫵🏻👍🏼
Just love this type of work , when i was 16 i bought an old Trans Am and worked on it with a pro and still have good memories about it , just like you’ll have 👏👍🏼🇨🇦
Oh by the way the pinchy thing that you had it’s called aligator clamps and the handle is a cleco clamp .
Really impressed man! Keep it up! This is motivating me to work on mine.
Thanks man! Likewise, you vids have motivated me a lot, so let's keep passing it back and forth!!
Great job so far Bob. May I suggest watching Home Built By Jeff. He is brilliant at showing/teaching bodywork etc. I've learned loads from him. You will to.
Bob all your work looks fantastic considering its your first time. Others have given good advice. Here is mine. When I did all this on my C10 I used Metal to Metal body filler over all the welds before body filler as it is waterproof and will seal all the little pinholes there might be in the welds. Looking good!
Baby steps, Bob and great use of safety gear. Wishing you and your family a blessed week, gentle weather and restful evenings. Peace brother
Love the problem solving and embracing learning something new to you… all while documenting it for us!
Yes continue the vids. Always like the way you show your work and with your efforts I'm confident it's going to be amazing. Keep it going.
Bob, get yourself some Dykem blue in the spray can. Spray the cut area with the blue’ing, place your patch panel in its spot, THEN scribe - the blue makes your scribe so much easier to see and you’ll get much more accurate cuts. Car is looking good!
Love that feeling when you are successful with a project. Nice job!!
So true!
I just subscribed to the channel. I'll be on the journey you"re on with the Ghia soon. I have a 1973 Ghia myself and it needs about the same work as yours. Thanks for the bravery and talent. It helps me, help myself to one day start my own project. I really appreciate and admire your work ethic. Keep up the good work!
Definitely want to encourage you to keep going with this, these are some of my favorite of your recent videos. It's especially interesting to see how to approach something when you're *not* an expert with 10,000 hours already into something, but trying to apply transferable skills. Keep up the great work! 👍
Ahhh.....metal work.....the BEST thing about cars! 😂👍 She's coming along! It's really funny, I started watching your videos because I knew nothing about prop work and the things you know tons about. I'm a car guy and a welder. So to watch you learn as you work on this car is very cool and fun.
I have a little welding experience and I have to replace a quarter on my daughter's pontiac. I've been putting it off, scared to mess it up. You have inspired me to get off my butt and get outside to my welder.
Thanks for inspiring us to try new things! Good luck and keep at it!
One of my favorite series. I myself am in the middle of a 71 Ghia restoration
Wanted to stand up and applaud at the end of this one. It was obvious you were really happy with the progress and your accomplishment at getting this done. Car looks better every time you show it. Keep at it and you'll soon be ready for your next car project. 😁 Thanks for sharing!
This series is great. I always want to see more. Although I think you totally 100% got this, You questioning yourself does make the video more exciting.
Bravo, Bob! Looking smooth and tight. Can't wait til the next installment!
I love it, you keep talking about the car on the podcast and at last we can see what is happening, I don't know for other but i like that project and i would like to see more if possible. I will be doing body work for the first time this year and it's cool to see the process you went through and demystify it ! thank you.
Great job. The door looks like it’s fitting great so far. Great job and great content
Fitzee's Fabrications has a lot of videos about making and replacing panels on cars. Very helpful info. Nice car choice.
You picked a huge project for something you haven't done before. There's going to be a steep learning curve but you will figure it out. Keep at it and it will be the best feeling when you have it completed.
I’m pretty much in the same place as you on my 68 Ghia restoration. You are going much faster, as I spent years researching before I had the nerve to tackle it. A few suggestions: Those rust repair panels need modification before you weld them on. The shape/profiles are sometimes not very close to what they should be and need to be tweaked. Also, they arrive with the CHEAPEST primer on them. Strip it off and apply something better before you weld and seal it up an area. Same for the heater channels. They need to be dry fit on the pans, then straightened, the welds on the nuts need to be reinforced, and then the inside need channel primer sprayed in them. I’m also concerned about your door fit. I chose to take the body off, do all the prep, and then put it back on the chassis for welding the channels and rockers. The body sits differently on the chassis and small amounts of flex can create a headache for getting those doors aligned, though more so with mine, since it’s a convertible.
Nice, this gives me so much more confidence in doing it myself in the near future. Now I just need a place to work on
Fantastic! Im excited to follow this build along!
Cool car tough project. Keep up the good work Bob!
Thank you so much for doing this! Now time to tackle my 71'
So glad to see the update video. Keep it up. Can’t wait to see the finished product. 👍
Thank you! You know, I watch these videos where people will build an entire car frame from scratch, attach body panels, and have an entire running vehicle with perfect body panels by the end of the day. I start thinking, "wow, that must not be as hard as I thought it would be. I could do that." Thank you for the reality check. I am glad you were able to work it out.
There’s just something about restoring an old car! Cool videos.
Great build. Im renovating a house atm. 2nd guessing myself all the time, wasting too much time in the cloud of self-doubt, completing the job 100 times in my head before I even start.....but they're all necessary processes to make the finish right. You weren't an amazing wood-worker overnight I'm guessing? Keep on keeping on, you inspire people like me. Much love from the UK 🤜
Love the work you are doing. Ghia is my dream car.
8:40 in the holes you drilled and filled is called puddle welding. And the flex in the rear panel you wedged , if you stepped the new panel and slipped it behind the original it would create more structure and you could either fill weld the line or drill the original and 'puddle weld ' the 2 together
Keep up the good work Bob. Remember it's a process. Nothing will fit right and you will hit hurdles but just keep chiseling away. You will get it done. Looks great so far.
Nice job Bob!
Looks great Bob! Another bite of the elephant done, I can’t wait to see more. It’s always great watching someone learn new stuff
Awesome Job - nice to see the progress and the ability to just go for it!
Remember this day, because when you drive out of that garage for the first time it will all feel worth it. Building a car is not easy and it doesnt happen over night. Keep going and it will slowly happen! Congrats on a big step forward! I cant wait to see this thing.
I need more!!! Haha i love this, we're all learning together
Nice work Bobert!
Bit of advice, when trying to mate up new and old panels, clamp the new and old panels in place and cut both new and old panels at the same time so the cut is perfect with no overlap.
I love this series!! More more!
I really like these semi-freeflow vids :) awesome job Bob and the crew!!!
Great to see it all coming together!
On the other side of your punching tool is another tool (don't know the English name).
Instead of making butt joints on your sheet metal, use that tool to make the inner plate lower and do regular spot welds on top. Then grind it down.
The ONLY way i know this is because I learned this yesterday 😅
ahhhh. takes me back to when I replaced the inner/outer rockers and cab corners on my duramax.
Love this series so much, ot gets my car geek self into gear
Great job Bob! You’ve got this 💪🏽
this is exactly like my life, everything is a struggle with very brief periods of success, hope it works out for you in the end
I hope things get better for you. Keep going and trust in those close to you for help.
I really like this project!
Love this project. Very impressed at the level your jumping in! Kinda like learning to swim in the ocean against a riptide.
i love all your videos, but this series is so fun! love watching you learn. thanks for sharing
You sound like you were getting frustrated at the start of this video, glad you stuck with it. I'm loving this series. I know making the vids makes things 10x harder, so thanks for doing it.
It went so weld😉
Man this project is so cool
Great work Bob! Slowly but surely and you will get the job done. Hang in there! 👍👍
I love the Karmann Ghia series especially because you don't know what you are doing. I do woodworking and learned mainly by looking at channels like yours on TH-cam. It's sometimes intimidating because it always seems simple in those videos. With the Karmann Ghia, we see to not fear learning new skills, and that the best way to do so is to tinker with it, a step at the time, and that we will do mistakes and learn a lot more because we will have to figure out how to fix them.
Estou adorando esse projeto ! Está sendo executado com maestria 🇧🇷
I am loving this project, it is being executed with mastery 👊🏻
This is such a huge project, but progress is progress!
Truth!
thank god you said you were going to glue them in the last video I'm so glad you went the welding route ps try to get some Torx bit door hinge bolts Philips style bolts are renowned for
rounding often
Also for spot welding you can drill holes in one panel and use a simple mig welder to weld it on and then stitch weld along the seem to avoid heat distortion. Also you might want go invest in what's called a "body saw" which is more or less a pneumatic jig saw.
Really excellent work, Bob! Nicely done! 😃
Those jobs are difficult, but absolutely doable!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Use short self tapping screws insted of the clecos, that will hold it in place so much better, and it will provide you with extra holes for spotwelding :)
Awesome job!👍👍👍
1:40 pinchy clampy sticker had my 3 year old car nut of a son rolling! it was so silly it earned my subscription and makes me wanna work on our projects even more now!
ur doing great bob
I'm so stoked to see the journey of this Karmann Ghia. Great video as always!
Great work after a small amount of bondo and skim coat with paint no one will know lol I'd look into metal door shims to help adjust the door rearward so that the lower front doesn't rub, good work brother and keep up the amazing work
Check out the cut and butt method 😊
I'm loving these videos. Wish you had more time to work on the Karmann Ghia, but I'll take what I can get. I'm wondering if designing and building a car from scratch might be a project you'd take on. Less patch work, more fresh new metal and you could take it in any direction. Just putting that out there.
To keep the metal cool while welding, get a big sponge and dip it in water, wring it out and hold it close to the area to be welded. Just keep the sponge damp.
Fantastic videos. Like watching the slow but great progress. I can't wait to see the finished product. High Fives!!! 👍👍👍
Feels good doesn't it? Yeah, you got this.
Hy Bob great job, but when you welding side to side part you need to have a little bit of the metal part of the solid part that goes under the new one.
In this way you creat a support for the material and the rework is better
Cool. It's starting to look like a car again👍
When using a spot welder , you need a shunt. This will provide the path for the ground from the front panel to the back.
As someone who’s 67 beetle is sitting in shambles, this series is great!
You’re doing a great job man, awesome to see it progress! 👏✌️
You have to hold it in place till it turns red maybe about 6 to 8 seconds. Bought the same one from harbor freight and it worked perfect. Spot welded a whole truck bed with it.
Also! Grind the black primer like paint off the new pieces and spray weld through primer on the area you grinded. Then proceed with the steps mentioned above.
2:40 I would have thought you wouldn't have wanted to cut on that line, but flange the panel to that line. The butt weld seems difficult and not the strongest, but a flange would be easier to hold in place and more material to weld.
That is one way to do it, but from all of my research I found that the flange becomes a place that eventually will start to rust, as a small amount of air can exist in it. I'm sure there will be certain locations where it's a better option though 👍🏼
@@Iliketomakestuff cool. I'd seen that on a bunch of shows/videos and it made sense to me. But I also liked someone else suggestion in the comments of clamping the panel in place and cutting thru both panels to get a perfect match rather than scribing and trying to cut to the line.
When welding lap joints do tend to rust out sooner than butt joints. If you're doing a lap joint in a non structural area you can use panel adhesive in lieu of welding. Completely coat the flange surfaces with the adhesive and use some flush set rivets and it'll do pretty well at preventing rust in the flange.
@2:51 smooth
Sometimes having a 3/32 or smaller gap between your panels isn't a bad idea when mig welding body panels so you get full penetration. If you have no gap and are too cold it's not uncommon to get under penetration. Good job on rocker panel, body gap turned out perfect.