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Originally Posted by Ian Comerford
If you’ve decided you can do the torsion tube repair then anything else will be relatively straightforward. It isn’t very common but most of the other rust you have encountered so far is, with repair panels available and useful reports from people who have done similar. It sounds like you are mentally going for it so don’t be put off by smaller issues than the torsion tube.
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Thanks for the encouragement! It's always a challenge to incorporate new obstacles into a plan of attack.
My primary concern now is how I'll support and align everything the important structural bits while I'm working. For the torsion tube, I can envision a piece-by-piece approach with a few jigs to align the tube and wheel well panels. For the rockers, I'm struggling to think of how I can keep everything in place if both the door jamb and rockers are rotten, and that before I get in to the roll bar support.
I'm sure it's just a matter of more research, and then I need to figure out where my real limitations are:
Am I willing to (or have room for) a rotisserie / octisserie in my garage?
Am I willing to pay for access or build a suitable substitute for a Celette bench to keep everything straight?
The key thing for me right now is to make as sure as possible that I'm able to fully commit before I pass the transition point from a project car that can move under its own power to a collection of parts and a rusty, wobbly shell.