1973 humber sceptre mk3 one last gift

so an update,the outer sills where bad, the inner sills are so much worse, so bad i also most sold it. ill try an let most of the pictures do the talking for now, but as you can see,there is a lot of rust.

so today task was to start repair the drivers side inner sill. which was a achieved without many hiccups. the task its self went okay but it covered more rust and holes that i will need to fix.

sadly this is the only 'before' i really have. i should of taken more but oh well.you can see its bad and in dire need of replacement.


this is above pic showing the top part of the sill with its homemade replacement panel next to it.


cutting out the rot and getting rid of all the bad metal,ready to have some shiny rust free metal put in. cutting out big bits out of the car can be some what scary.so its one of those things were its just best to have a simple plan an jump straight in. don't over think it or you never do it. you can always find solutions as problems appear. its worked for me so far. haha



now to grind back the rest of the rust to find the good metal, admittedly i half except to not find any but happily i did. heres the proof.


see, told you there was good metal. i covered that in cure rust, then in hammerite rust proof primer, this should hopefully stop the rust. next i need to make my panel.
but of course the hole i made was 2 inches longer than the lengh of my metal bender. so i had to get creative....


hitting the piece of wood to bend the metal just made more sense in my head thab just hitting the metal, probably saw in it a show some where


i repeated the process till i had a U piece of metal that fitted beautifully (no pics of that, sorry)

then it was just a case of welding it in,its welded at the bottom lip, in the middle in the interior part of the car at the floor plan and at the bottom of the 'top' part of the sill. the welded strips are meant to be reinforcements however they might not actually do anything. hopefully never be in a position where ill need to find out. and of course a coating of black hammerite rust proofing paint.
here's the (practically) finished bit (i need to tap the top part till its a bit straighter)



picture of the inner welds


but of course it never is that simple with this car, upon stripping back the metal, i found out the the front drivers side foot well was covered in a rubbery substance about 2cm thick (this was what the accelerator was practically screwed to)
and underneath was trapped water which had rusted the floor and made some holes :/
whats that saying? two steps forwards one step back?


thank you for all the good feed back,hope you enjoy reading this thread

yeah that's what i said, only with a few more profanities

yeah, there not solid, i just havent put any pictures of them up (when i get around to doing the doors you'll see what i mean), the drivers side doors have holes at both bottom corners. i think the reason for the sills being so bad is that there have been quite a few repairs underneath the car and instead of repairing all the rust, by either cutting it out or grinding it back, it was just covered in filler or some sort of rubbery substance and then plated over. they didnt even cover the inner parts of the replacement bits, just left them as bare metal. some people. i am trying my best to remove as much rust as possible either by cutting it away or grinding it and then treating it and then spraying everythig with rust prevention black. 

Thank you, that has genuinely made my day and put a smile on my face Your right it isn't good, I've already got 5kg of rust and scrap metal in a bin bag and sadly its only going to get heavier

Seconded! (thirded? fourteenthed?! Whatevers, keep up the good work - 'tis a marvellous thing you are doing here. My old man had the twin of this car in the 70's, in a slightly lighter gold colour. Seem to recall it went very well, nicely appointed etc. Well worthy of the salvation being bestowethed

Cheers

Matt

thank you all kind words and motivation.

this weeks update consists of continuing of rebuilding the drivers side inner sill, hand brake and floor panel (well a small bit). here's some before pics. And yes it it somehow passed a mot like this.

the stud is where the hand brake attaches, you can see the hole for the second bolt for the hand break. you can see the hole in the floor to the top left of the pic and my fingers to show you the lack of metal on the inner sill where the hand brake should be attached.


And here's the view from the other side,shows you how bad it really is.

so first i went about cutting all the scrap metal out putting in the new home made sill


this has been welded along the bottom, and along the other side, you can see the heat marks.


the new sill now in place but theres still the issue of the hole in the floor.


so i patched that up and learned that welding upside down is rather hard. but hey, one less hole in the car now.

yes,i know there is a hole behind it still, its on the to do list (its quite a big list tho).

any guesses what the pics below are of?



well done if you guessed handbrake bracket.

here it it welded in place (reminds me of darth vaders mask)


the other side. its had uprights welded in for strength, a second plate welded on to spread the load and the original nuts welded into place. all in all i'm pretty pleased with it. its works and certainly isnt going anywhere.


and here are some more pics of the hand brake installed.

thanks, yeah i currently have removed the wind screens (front and back) so new rubbers should hopefully stop any water leaks. the strips of rubber on the windows need replacing and i plan on changing every bit of rubber on the car to hope fully stop any leaks. yeah i was thinking about drilling a few small breather holes at the bottom of the sills.

yeah pics are always good,i sometimes get abit to carried away when working (which is no bad thing) and forget to take pics,so things do jump for one thing to another.

i've still got to replace the passenger side inner and outer sill as well. so they will get a rust proofing as well and pics of that when it happens.

thanks for the advice and interest

the only upgrades i plan to do on the engine is just an electronic igintion. the twin stromburgs on there are meant to put out 89bhp as standard so I'm not doing any thing with that. i knew it wasnt going to be fast when i brought it,more of a cruiser than anything, she should hopefully happily sit at 70 (if not then further tuning will have to be done).

however i do have a crazy idea of, in a few years time, dropping a bmw straight 4 turbo diesel engine in it(something out of a 320D perhaps) . that should have around 150bhp, better economy, more pulling power and makes it a bit more unique. and the challenge of it will be fun, because ill probably be bored again by then and be itching for another project of some kind.