Tubbing firewall

Joined: 20 Oct 2002 Location: Greenbank, Qld

What is the best way to cut the inner guards out Question

Portable plasma cutter? or other

What sort of material should I get to fill in the holes?

And just how much should I take out?

38" TSLs, 4" axle forward, no bodylift Question

should've listend to ruff before painting on the body deadener

Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 10:03 pm

Ask RUFF bout this, i dunno wot lift he is running or how much he tubbed but he is running 38's and i know he used a sawzall 2 cut it out Razz

Joined: 22 Oct 2002

BFH

Enough said!!! Very Happy

Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 7:02 am

Cheap air body saw, uses standard hacksaw blades, quite easy to use.

1.6 zinc sheet will be perfect to cut and mould.

Joined: 20 Oct 2002 Location: Greenbank, Qld

Area54 wrote:

Cheap air body saw, uses standard hacksaw blades, quite easy to use.

1.6 zinc sheet will be perfect to cut and mould.

thats what the yanks call a sawzall, isn't it?

where do i get a cheep one Question

Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 7:52 am

Nah, a sawzall is a larger machine uses about a 6 -8 inch blade, two hands to use it. An Air body saw is what a lot of audio installers use for speakers, body guys also use them - good for small compact spaces and accurate cutting, has a steel frame as a cutting guide instead of a flat glide plate like a jigsaw, so is much more versatile over irregular surfaces.

You can get them from tradetools/glenfords, about 80 bucks I think from memory, 6 bucks for tool oil bottle and get a few hacksaw blades - fine pitch 32tpi (stroke is only about 15mm, so you can get about 3 blades out of one hacksaw blade.)

Joined: 20 Oct 2002 Location: Greenbank, Qld

ok, i might have to have a look this afternoon