Right. Well, last you'd heard, Seedy was getting her face re-rearranged. I've been pretty busy getting adjusted to using my brain at work all day and also working essentially a 9-5 every week, only earlier hours. So the next bit of progress wasn't really until 26th October. This happened.
Some pulling with hand winches ended up popping some spot welds on the passenger side, so we decided to take it off and straighten that out off the car and make it easier to pull the wing straight.
Once the panel was off we fashioned a plate to pull off. Action shot.
There is another bent plate on the other side.
An actual action shot.
And then a lot of time not doing much occurred. And I flattened out some panels a bit. And finally I got Jono pinned down early enough in the day that we could make some noise and we stuck it all back together. This was today.
Safety boots.
As this is being done at my house and not the workshop, we're limited to an arc welder. Oh, and we didn't really clean the surfaces much. So it's not amazing.
It doesn't look that solid, but I have used the winch on it to pull it straight already and it holds fine. There is some stitch-ish welds on the back side to help.
Ended up having to slit the flange to get the panels to move enough in the right direction as smashing it with a hammer was just moving it everywhere.
Anyway, this is where she's at!
In theory, everything that's left to do, I can do by myself. I don't need a welder any more, and I'm going to put green panels on for now and work my way through the reed panels to fix them up.
For now, I need to get Seedy back on the road and stop using my housemates car.
Not only because he's getting annoyed, but because the 45min drive to work chews through fuel. Pretty sure Seedy is more fuel efficient.
So, next on the list, obtain some aluminium bracketry so I can mount an electric fan, get one of those terrible hose adapters for the fan switch for now. Plan was to braze a bung in to the bottom of the radiator, but I couldn't find a bung in time and Jono will be away for a month as of the end of the week with all of his gear.
I also need to go get some paint mixed up and coat all the bits that are in primer. I will go back through and make sure all the bolts are tight at that point.
There are some electrics that need fixing as I couldn't get to the connectors with the panels bent out of shape, so there is a little bit of rewiring to do, but Jono has already talked me through that.
And then it's just a matter of unbolting the front of the green car and transferring it to Seedy.
Seeeemples.
Updates soon, hopefully. I'm at a point now where I can just chip away at bits of it by myself.
Cheers,
Matt
