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The Rise of the Phoenix
# 31 lives again


bc

In the beginning


damage

Then out of nowhere comes this woman and the joy dissappears


1
2
Mike O'Brien says I will save you
What an idiot
3
4
Off to the hospital
a six wheel Jaguar
7
8
The back end looks OK
This side too

b
b
The rack is disconnected
The passenger side floor
10
11
The passenger  seat is out to check the floor
The Donor XJ6 with a missing inner fender
12
12
Oh the pain
The new/old fender cut and ready for transport
13
engine out

karam
Another showing the lifted floor and damaged footwell at the top of the photo- no damage to the firewall above or the tunnel
The engine had to be removed to permit room to work inside the engine bay in preparation for pulling the inner fender. Phil Karam checks the rear jack stands that were at their maximum.
out 1
out2
Coming
Coming
out
the doers
Out
The Doers-Phil Karam,Al Graves(arms raised)Vikram Ambrose (the transmission man) and Merv Clark-A great Club team

table 1
back to table
Going out to allow the pulling table to be positioned
Table in place-car returning-moved and suspended by a tractor
on
                                  the table


on rack
On the table
Car on the rack-anchors attached
sill area
roofline
passenger side sill pulled 3.5 inches
Roof line high by 1/4 inch




stretched and cut
cut away
Puller attached to cutoff inner fender
Longer view of the connection to the left

Stretching versus Amputation


When the project was first designed the plan was to stretch the inner fender back to where it was before the accident. To do that, as you have seen above, we had to pull the engine and transmission. That revealed serious buckling of the inner fender about one foot forward of the firewall as well as a buckled box frame part. There were two pulls. One of 2.5 inches and one of an inch. While the car was straight at that point the inner fender had many creases and the box frame was dented. It was decided at that point to remove the buckled and therefore weak metal and replace some or all of the inner fender.Those photos follow.

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This photo shows the  box frame where the piece was cut out to remove the  weak bend that could not be pulled out

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