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This is my B reg rover SD1 turbo diesel. Bought 4 years ago now on ebay as a bit of an impulse buy as i ran a 2 litre poverty spect SD1 in the 90s and quite fancied one of the diesel variants back then. This one was rough round the edges but basically sound and with 12 months mot, the vendor had rescued it from the brink and done a pretty good job of sorting the mechanicals, but the body left a bit to be desired, but despite it's appearance, it was surprisingly solid. I've had it MOTed over the summer and used it a little bit but it needs some welding to the rear of the sils to tidy it up for another test, so while it's laid up for the winter i'm trying to get that done. Here are some not very good pictures of it in the workshop. on edit, can't get the pictures to load onto the page. so these are the direct links   This is a pretty rare car with only about 4 left on the road, so i bet there's no one else on retro rides got one of these eh? what's that? OH.   |
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Last Edit: Mar 1, 2020 22:11:59 GMT by matbrojoe
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Scott
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What looks right is not necessarily right,
but what looks wrong is definitely not right!
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Thanks for that Scott. I was lucky enough to meet Jim in the flesh as it were at the last NEC restoration show along with the blue diesel.
I was looking under the bonnet of it and he came up to me and said said 'i bet you've not seen one with that engine before'
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Love an SD, looking forward to seeing more.
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 let's see if i can get the pictures to work now: no would seem to be the answer to that question for the moment (edited to show pictures) here's a link to the repair panel i made for the rear of the sill  from inside the wheel arch  and that bit capped off and finished with sealer and primer.  I'm using chrome on windows 10 and when i try to upload either using the post picture icon or the add picture tab at the bottrom of the post, i just get a blank space, literally nothing happens, is it me of a glitch with the forum? |
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Last Edit: Mar 1, 2020 22:09:39 GMT by matbrojoe
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scimjim
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Thanks Jim, in hindsight i should have taken the photo of that repair after i'd ground the weld back, not my finest bit of weld that.
That was quite a tricky bit to make because neither the return at the bottom or the bends in the sill itself are straight, the sill flairs out at the back and the return as a kink in it where it steps out about 20mm
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Last Edit: Mar 1, 2020 20:52:19 GMT by matbrojoe
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Right, i've restarted the computer and I've switched from chrome to IE, let's see if the picture uploader will work now  |
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well that's a bit of a bummer.
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can't see what i'm doing wrong here, anyway, some more links this is the towing point which has rotted out at the lamination as usual imgur.com/2bIMynerot chopped out and a new flange made for the recess imgur.com/O2npOK2flange in place imgur.com/3Mr4aA4new section butt welded in with reinforcing plate welded on top and the original towing eye re used, I've drilled the reinforcing plate behind the towing eye and welded it on from behind. imgur.com/vZSrciB |
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Last Edit: Mar 1, 2020 21:18:33 GMT by matbrojoe
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can't see what i'm doing wrong here, anyway, some more links this is the towing point which has rotted out at the lamination as usual  rot chopped out and a new flange made for the recess  flange in place new section butt welded in with reinforcing plate welded on top and the original towing eye re used, I've drilled the reinforcing plate behind the towing eye and welded it on from behind.  |
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can't see what i'm doing wrong here, anyway, some more links this is the towing point which has rotted out at the lamination as usual imgur.com/2bIMynerot chopped out and a new flange made for the recess imgur.com/O2npOK2flange in place imgur.com/3Mr4aA4new section butt welded in with reinforcing plate welded on top and the original towing eye re used, I've drilled the reinforcing plate behind the towing eye and welded it on from behind. imgur.com/vZSrciBNormally you just need to add ![]() at the start, and [/img] at the end, but that doesn’t seem to work     You need to copy the link with a .jpg on the end, and add ![]() [/img] I do it in the app on my phone, if you press the image, and then select copy link it copies the right one Anyway, good save! Looking forward to the story |
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ok, let's try again, this should be the trimmed off wheel arch lip  |
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Last Edit: Mar 1, 2020 21:37:30 GMT by matbrojoe
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ok, let's try again, this should be the trimmed off wheel arch lip Woohoo!!  Glad to help |
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the wheel arch wasn't that bad, annoyingly, i just missed a wheel arch repair section for this side on ebay about 6 months ago, i put about £60 on it which i thought would be enough, but i was n't too bothered about one for this side because superficially it didn't look too bad, but as the rule of old cars goes, there's always more rot than you think. The problem with the arch, as you can see in the pic above with the outer skin trimmed off, is that there was rust between the outer lip and the inner lip where the two panels were laminated together, so even though you could perhaps have got away with cleaning it up, there's no way that the rust wouldn't have found its way through again.you can see in this photo, (hopefully) that the inner lip is pretty shonky. (Note also the obligatory filler from a previous repair)  now i forgot the camera when i was making the nits for the arch so i only have this photo of the part repaired arch with a fabricated arch section part welded in  what i've done is folded a return on the pan folder and then curved it to the correct profile using a shrinker stretcher, that's relatively easy, i've then had to make the return profile for the arch itself, which is something like a 25 degree bend, the problem is when you try to curve that on the shrinker, it bends both ways, you keep having to beat it flat again which then changes the curve. In the end i cheated and made it in two sections which was a bit easier but it took hours, so if anyone has a wheel arch repair section going spare for the RH side i'd very much like to buy one. because there wasn't much rot, i've been able to keep most of the original arch so hopefully once it's filled it will look not too bad, the top edge had been swaged and slotted under the existing metal to avoid having to make a perfect curved cut to butt weld it. |
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Last Edit: Mar 1, 2020 21:54:34 GMT by matbrojoe
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scimjim
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After the photobucket fiasco I don’t use third party hosts, I’ll either host photos myself or use a forum uploader where they’ve gone to the effort of adding one.
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I can't get the forum uploader to work either, but yeah, photobucket have ruined so many threads on here from the past, i think they realised their website was going down the pan and tried to cash in by holding their remaining users to ransom, apparently a lot of online retailers used them and they thought these users would pay to get their sites up and running rather than lose sales, it was a pretty mercenary and cynical tactic
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scimjim
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You’re trying to upload photos from imgur - you need to “add pictures” direct from your computer/phone/pad storage/photo library.
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