The BAD AST Project - Faze II

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Worked on "closing in" the rear enclosure. Made patterns for all of the pockets and cut them out of a roll of roofing flashing I had laying around.

This stuff is very easy to work with and it cuts with scissors so making the real filler panels was easy.

This one had a few bends but we just bent it over the edge of the welding table.

We ran a small bead of RTV around the edge of the holes after drilling for rivets and riveted them in place.


We hit everything with scotchbrite to rough it up. I'll spray this with black epoxy primer once the rest of the enclosure is done.

Getting the final hole filled. The passenger side was a bit more of a challenge as we had to bend around the slider door track.

Putting in the bends on the table edge.



I also made up a couple of short angle brackets to carry the rear enclosure bar. These are riveted into the inside corners of the rear door pillars.
The passenger side.

The driver side

I cut another piece of 1 x 1 to length marked and drilled rivnut holes and bolted the bar in place.







The rest of the rear enclosure will be build off this bar. I plan to have it removable for tank access.
Adding some bracing will be requisite. This will also be done at the forward bar.

Didn't get out there today. To many family things (and a nap) got in the way...
Mark