trg1984 said:
I cant beleive I havent sseen this car before, it looks ace in ur sig. Are you sure you havent seen it before???
I could swear you were intersested in buying it back when it was in primer.
Still, anyway, I havent updated this for a bit but i have been doing stuff, honest, just not at the rate i would have liked to have been.
First up, i had a couple of interesting workshop accidents last month that i thought i'd share with you. The first one happened when i was grinding the lip off the bottom of one of the sills. I had thick leather gloves on at the time, which is unusual for me as i cant normally work in them, so i didnt think there would be much danger in grabbing the slither of steel i was grinding to pull it off. I was wrong. The combination of heat and sharpness meant it went through my glove like a knife through butter and right into my finger too. It was so hot/sharp that i didnt feel it straight away and it was only the familar smell of burning flesh that made me realise something was wrong.
I've been left with this wonderful cross between a burn and a cut which i call a butt.
The second one also happened while cutting out the o/s sill. You know how when you buy a cheap grinder you always get a couple of cheap and nasty looking cutting discs which you save for when your desperate? Well i was desperate.
So there i am cutting away with the grinder inches from my nose (must get my eyes tested soon) I stopped cutting for a second and held the grinder so it pointed at floor, still running, while i stuck my head in the car to see how straight i was cutting. Fortunatly for my beautiful face, thats when the disc deciede to explode.
A couple of seconds sooner and would have taken more than a cup of coffee and a fag to help me recover.
Anyway, this is were i'm at at the moment.
After all the fun and games this is the o/s sill removed.
Its had coversills fitted at some point so loads of lovely rust lurking behind that lot.
This one looks a bit like part of the titanic. There was some shocking bodges done to the inner sills too, so only one option really.
Cut the lot out and put some shiny new stuff back in.
This 16 gauge, an absolute curse word to work with but all i had in plentifull supply and hopefully it should put a bit of strength in for the anticipated turbo nutter engine.
New sills werent without drama. Being pattern the fit was about close as southend is to southampton. They also had a bow in the middle wich i havent been able to get out as well as i hoped. I've lined them up as best i can with the bottoms of the doors and the rest will have to be done with filler. Not ideal but then i'm not exactly building a show winner so its not going to matter.
I ended up having to re do this section of front panel after i tried to cheat first time around and patch up the section of rusty headlight panel. In the end i had to cut the whole lot out and start from scratch again, ho hum.
This what ten years of temporary repairs looks like underneath. The o/s wing.
Fabbing a new support panel.
Getting there, just don't look at the door gap
Closing the gap. Boring and burns your fingers.
Going...
......Going........
Gone.
And last of all. I paid nightmare mark 20 english pounds for a perfect grill then did this to it...
Why?
Maybe i'll tell you soon ;D ;D