All in all, a good day in the garage today. I finished the rebuild of the passenger side lower door hinge today. Over the past couple of days, I had done the media blasting, priming and painting, so today was just an assembling day. Below are pics of the individual parts and then two views of the assembled part. When I'm closer to putting the hinge back on the truck, I'll trim the pin. It was good to see the arm pivoting around the new pin and the pin not moving. I did add grease to both the new pin and the inside of the arm, prior to assembly.
In addition to doing the assembly of the hinge, I spent some time removing the passenger side floor sheet metal, doing one last adjustment/cleaning. I made sure that all of the paint was removed from around every place that I plan to weld. Then...I went for it! I made the first, no kidding welds. I tacked the passenger side rocker panel to the original part of the floor pan that isn't being replaced. Some of the welds are good, some are ok and a pair were bad. Nothing is so bad that it can't be repaired. Pretty sure I'll take it!
I'm going to order some panel bond. While I wait for that to arrive, I'll spend some time filling in those old spot weld locations and in the process complete the welding of the rocker panel to the rear of the floor pan. Once that is done and the welds dressed, I'll post a pic. Once the panel bond arrives, I'll set about installing the front passenger side floor pan replacement.
