Saturday, February 19, 2011

I hate drilling spot welds.

Got some work done today.  I was able to remove my USDM radiator support.  Took about 4 or 5 hours to drill out all the spot welds and get the support completely off.  I bought two 3/8" Double Sided Rotary Spot Weld Cutter's from Harborfreight.com and with a 3/8" Reversible Air Drill With Keyed Chuck and Key from Harbor Freight as well.  Drilling out the spot welds was not fun.  There are way too many of them.  There are a few that are not on completely flat areas so keeping the bit steady was a little difficult.  After I drilled all the welds out I to a chisel and 3lb mallet to the areas that I couldn't pull off by hand.  Some areas of the radiator support just popped off after drilling the spot welds out.  Others needed some encouragement from my chisel and mallet. 
I'm only half way there after removing the USDM support.  I've gotta drill out all the spot welds on the JDM nosecut.  I'll continue that another day.

Here's the USDM support right before I started on the spot welds.  Everything basically removed.

Passenger side.  After drilling a handful of spot welds out. 

Drivers side.  You can see where the drill bit walks. 

The USDM support finally off after quite a few hours of work! 

My front end without a radiator support.

Drivers side without the support.  Got some cleaning up of the metal to do. 

Passenger side without the radiator support.  More cleaning off to do. 

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