The bottom of the B pillar had completely rotted out and needed fabricating from the cargo bay floor down. I started with a rear plate from the back of the pillar to the bottom of the inner sill and then cut and shaped sides, it was a fiddly repair that needed to be done one piece at a time to get the most space to weld into.
Here you can see the rear plate and a side plate in place.
And here it is from inside the front wheel tub.
I primed it as a went along to get as much paint over it as possible.
The outside of the B pillar needed cutting back higher to get to a knarly piece of rot behind the front wheel arch.
A B pillar skin repair panel from Alan Schofield was cut to finish the outside curve.
Then one or two smaller repair pieces were cut to get the outside curve correct.
Then the wheel tub side of the pillar was repaired ensuring that the pillar had it's own structural shape behind the (good) front wheel arch.
The repair pieces were ground into shape to the B pillar curve.
The repair sections were seam welded around.
And re-primed.
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