More Cowl Repair

Well I finally got a good days worth of work in to repair the rusted area in the front cowl.

Here is a shot of before some of the welding. The rust pretty much ate through two layers of metal over the last 30 years. I fabbed up a small patch and welded over the top of the hole.




































Here is a pic of getting the patches just right before welding them into the cowl.

Side patch now welded into place. I tacked this into place and then used some large spot welds with the MIG.

Here is a shot of the patch panel now welded into place and the lower and right patches welded into place. This took lots of grinding and patching to get it just right.

Here is a final pic of the area welded into place and painted ready for the outer cowl to get welded into place now. Before this is done the inside of the cowl will get a good coat of epoxy paint before I proceed.