Righty ho! Forever onwards!
Might I introduce you to my back left quarter? Well, technically it's the car's back left quarter, I didn't think you'd want a photo of mine.
So, the blue arrow, the bit that some previous owner stuffed in. That passed the MOT. God knows how but it did.
But it does mean that the rear wing is destined for the skip. In a moment of great sanity (it had to happen eventually) I actually got a replacement (second hand) wing and aren't going to repair this. What a let down eh?
Behind plastic sill (green arrow) the car is missing. This upset the MOT man. I'm keeping the inner arch here so that'll need a proper repair but the outer panel is going with the rest of the wing.
The red arrows point to two areas where the outer skin has rusted due to the car being double skinned. The MOT man didn't like that either but, again, the replacement wing will sort them out.
But the objective is to get the car on the road, replacing the wing is for another day. What I need is a proper repair to the inner arch and some quick and dirty work on the other bits to keep the MOT man happy.
Start in the door shut then? A nasty bodge to that bit round the door switch me thinks.
Just remove the old and seized door switch first.
That's a 12mm nut on the end. Or it was 30 years ago. Now it's trashed. After 30 mins of tools, bashing, swearing and cursing it was still firmly attached to the car.
Hmmmph. This was supposed to be the easy repair.
Out with the big guns then.
Weld a big bolt to the end and hit it with the air tools.
I do like a bit of total overkill. I like winning too!
We'll see the door switch again in another post. I've had an idea...
Chop out the problem bit.
I'm going to forget about the couple of holes in the back skin. It's not staying on the car.
Quick cardboard template.
Quick bit of bent metal to weld in.
Bzzt bzzt.
It was very overcast when I was doing this and I couldn't really see until I sparked up the welder. That and I wound up blowing through and following thin metal around.
Mask up - take a look - mask down - bzzt bzzt.
Mask up - take a look - mask down - buzz bzzt.
Mask up - take a look - bzzt. BUM HATS!!! That was poxy bright.
Remind me to buy a bright work light so I can see.
Anyway once the spots had gone from my eyes…
I think I was dropped on my head when I was a child. I can say the words "quick and dirty" and "nasty bodge" and I even understand what it means. But the bit of my brain that actually does quick, dirty, nasty bodges doesn't seem to work…
Bit of primer to keep the rain off.
It might not be quick, dirty, nasty or much of a bodge but it's good practice in't it.
James
Might I introduce you to my back left quarter? Well, technically it's the car's back left quarter, I didn't think you'd want a photo of mine.
So, the blue arrow, the bit that some previous owner stuffed in. That passed the MOT. God knows how but it did.
But it does mean that the rear wing is destined for the skip. In a moment of great sanity (it had to happen eventually) I actually got a replacement (second hand) wing and aren't going to repair this. What a let down eh?
Behind plastic sill (green arrow) the car is missing. This upset the MOT man. I'm keeping the inner arch here so that'll need a proper repair but the outer panel is going with the rest of the wing.
The red arrows point to two areas where the outer skin has rusted due to the car being double skinned. The MOT man didn't like that either but, again, the replacement wing will sort them out.
But the objective is to get the car on the road, replacing the wing is for another day. What I need is a proper repair to the inner arch and some quick and dirty work on the other bits to keep the MOT man happy.
Start in the door shut then? A nasty bodge to that bit round the door switch me thinks.
Just remove the old and seized door switch first.
That's a 12mm nut on the end. Or it was 30 years ago. Now it's trashed. After 30 mins of tools, bashing, swearing and cursing it was still firmly attached to the car.
Hmmmph. This was supposed to be the easy repair.
Out with the big guns then.
Weld a big bolt to the end and hit it with the air tools.
I do like a bit of total overkill. I like winning too!
We'll see the door switch again in another post. I've had an idea...
Chop out the problem bit.
I'm going to forget about the couple of holes in the back skin. It's not staying on the car.
Quick cardboard template.
Quick bit of bent metal to weld in.
Bzzt bzzt.
It was very overcast when I was doing this and I couldn't really see until I sparked up the welder. That and I wound up blowing through and following thin metal around.
Mask up - take a look - mask down - bzzt bzzt.
Mask up - take a look - mask down - buzz bzzt.
Mask up - take a look - bzzt. BUM HATS!!! That was poxy bright.
Remind me to buy a bright work light so I can see.
Anyway once the spots had gone from my eyes…
I think I was dropped on my head when I was a child. I can say the words "quick and dirty" and "nasty bodge" and I even understand what it means. But the bit of my brain that actually does quick, dirty, nasty bodges doesn't seem to work…
Bit of primer to keep the rain off.
It might not be quick, dirty, nasty or much of a bodge but it's good practice in't it.
James
