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TR2/3/3A Question on order of welding

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It is a long story, but I purchased the back half from Craigslist and had the front half from another complete car that rotted out too bad in the back to fix. I had cut the car in half years ago and was just saving the inner fenders for an emergence. Then I started seeing people cut tr3s in half and do quality repairs. These cars at one time are in those pieces, I carefully cut things apart and sand blasted them and used new floors and sill to bring them together, very time consuming and at times overwhelming.

Yes those decisions are difficult. I could have purchased a real nice taken apart project car for 5K that sat since the 70 ties, but reality set in what a pain. Anyways, I cannot tell from your pictures yet how your sills are. The sill does not look too bad under the door. Is that one picture the front of the sill next to the A post on the driver side foot well with the A post missing the bottom 2 inches? If so, leave the front clip on there until you know for sure the condition of the sills. And maybe post a picture of the inside sill by the foot well. The section where the posts are on the sill is significant also because the A & B post get welded to the sill there. I guess you could patch the top of the sill there if you have good meat down further. How is the trunk section on the car?
 
You've come a long way, Steve. It's looking great! I like especially that you are using the frame for alignment. That's the tactic I plan to take. It would seem that it would have to come out right if all the individual parts fit the frame well.
 
I'll try and get some better pictures tomorrow before I head to work. I'm starting my shift again so not much is gonna happen for the next 7 nights for me except for work, unless I wake up early, but that's unlikely.
The sill between the "A" and "B" post for most part is solid, rust is forming where the outer sill rotted away and crap collected, and under the rear fender, the sill is rotted away for most parts, I'm starting to lean towards a inner and outer sill replacement, as for the trunk floor there is some rust/rot thru it but I'm not sure as to what extent that is yet, not looking there just yet.
When I bought this car, 10 years ago, it sat outside under some trees. The gentleman that I bought it from used it as a parts car for his TR3 but there was nothing taken out of this one as it was different enough. My vin is TS60xx, but in the deal with him, I got 2 repo/nos/replacment rear fenders as well as the trunk panel ( tail light attach to it) same kinda deal, rust free very little damage, mostly from sitting around. As well as a good TR3 rear axle, as the one in the 2 was damaged beyond repair, ( no center section, but axle shaft) the center section was a lump of rust and chipped/broken teeth and rusted solid. All this for 700 canadian, a **** of a deal but so much work.
Now that I've got the time and space I won't say money but...... I've decided it's time to get going on this project, it was either sell it as is or fix it..... So not sure if it's the right one but it's what I choose to do. But back on topic now, so my floor pans showed up today, very pretty metal, no rust, haven't had time to test fit them yet.but so much more welding before I put them in, I need to do a repair to the driveshaft tunnel before I fit them, as well weld in the rear section of the floor behind of the repair section then the firewall, and then the sill/body mount, then the driver side will be done and I can start up the passenger side.
 
I hear you! Every time I think back on this TR2, I realize it should have gone to the scrap yard. Once you decide to do it, you just have to dive in and stay the course. If you look back through the archives, Jerry (texasknucklehead) had a ripping good deal on a TR3...free! It was a Katrina car that had been submerged. He'll attest that sometimes even free is not that good of a good deal.

If I had to pay for all the work I've put in so far, I'd have a fortune in this thing to date. If I had the money, I would have bought decent parts to work with. I look at it as having traded my time for $. I've really spent relatively little, but have a good 2000+ hours invested in fabbing steel sheet. But...it's a hobby. Gives me something to do with myself while the kids are at school.

Anyway, those inner sills are the innermost starting point for all your work. Everything builds outward from them, so make sure you are happy with them before you start to build.
 
The more I look and think about inner sills, the more I think they should be replaced. So I'm waiting to see what the sale is this month. Getting anything shipped up from the states is getting super expensive, but I've found a supplier of moss up here in Canada so once I know what the sale is I'll be ordering the sills inner and outer so I can continue with the repairs. The floors came from moss with the gaged nuts installed so that was a bonus, just haven't had time to fit them to the car just yet, since I'm gonna do sills they will have to wait for a bit before they go in now. But once I'm done my shift, I'll be picking brains on e again on inner sill replacments. Lol
 
I think the new inner sills are a great idea.

Cheers
Tush
 
Lol, I've come to that decision as well. The more I think about repairing what I have the more I'm coming to realize that I'm gonna have to order some new sheet metal to repair what I've got. Now I need to know what the sale is with moss so I can get them ordered, and I also need my signing bonus from work, that would make this easier to deal with.
 
So, still have not decided on buying new sills, it's just the price that makes it too expensive for me. Since I do maintenance on aircraft, and have access to a 6' and 8' brake at work plus the expertise of the sheet metal guys, I'm thinking of making my own? So with asking this has anybody done any repairs to there? Are they hollow? Or is there stuff between the 2 " C" sections?
 
Waiting to hear back on my offer on some inner sills, I've started to some more fitting/welding. Now on to some more questions, the inner quarter does the panel go down and under the floor?,welded to the sill? On top of the floor? With what I have left I can not tell, and I can't find a good picture of one.
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The ruler is pointing at some rusted metal that looks like it's part of the inner quarter or some previous repair not sure which. Or is it the floor pan? Or????
Ive getting ready to install the rear section of the floor, and then try and fit my poorly fitting floor pans, they seem to be a different length between the mounting bolts and way too long...... So I'll have to think my way thru that one, but first thing is first!
 
The floor is tacked to the inside of the inner sill.

The inner quarter laps over the floor and is spot welded to the top of the floor. So, to replace the floor you have to pry the bottom of the quarter panel up, and the fold it back down once the floor is in.
 
Awesome, that's what I thought, pried it up and out of the way, now I'm trying to get the replacement floor into place. It's fitting better now that I've done a tiny bit of trimming. I won a set of sill on ebay, so they are on there way up. It's now just how much fitting will I have to do!
With the floors temporarily in it was a better feeling, until I look around and see more rust! Lol. But no rest for the wicked! I should just put up a picture on the other side so I don't see it!
 
I hear ya'...I'm so tired of looking at rust. It reminds me of how much work lies ahead.
 
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