Fleet Update pg10

This thread prob needs moving to Project the way this prop refurb has gone!

My daughters birthday on Saturday so I thought I would sneak in a tinkering day and told the office I was busy and would be in later (which turned out to be not at all lol!).

First hammerite over the high zinc paint on the last repair before it's closed in with outer panels.




Could not quite remember how the section was made up as most of it was gone after I cut the rot out :lol:
But I new on the end of the sill there was a locating section for the out wheel arch panel to go over so fabbed a section



Welded it all in



And then welded the front section of the arch panel (if you remember I cut it up as the panel fit was poor)



Then finished the section off closing in the repair section



I recreated the original overlappig panels in this area to match the other side



All ready for lead leading but ran out of time. But for the moment the welding is done!!!!!!!!

Famous last words! I am going to wire brush the sills next especially round the jacking points and then rust proof and hammerite.

Then wire brush and re wayoyl underneath before refitting everything.

I figure I can do the filling and sanding etc with it on wheels and running, I'm keen to get it moving again

Took time out today to crack on.

Again I left he arch repair as was , Il lead laod and fill later. Figure its more important to get the basics sorted and back on wheels, I can get the filling and sanding, painting done then.

So I moved to sorting the underside as the top side body work is now complete.

Plan is to Knot wheel the underside where old underseal is coming away, treat rust (hopefuly no welding!) and re underseal.

First up was sills and jacking points.

So passenger sill was showing some surface rust a rear, after a quick wire brush over I discovered why. Some bright spark had done an ok sill repair, but covered the bare metal in waxoyl only, now zinc no primers etc.



Cleaned it all off

Zinc primed and then Hammerited it.

Worked my way down the rest of sill, the centre section was ok, so I wire brushed, Kurusted and zinced the small surface rust areas

But the engine end has some rot that had to be cut out

Welding in new thick metal and zinc'd and hammerited


Left that to dry as plan is to now waxoyl the whole section both inside through bodykit fiting hiles and outside.
But I am going to have to take the fron arches off and the liner to get at some rot on the front end of the sill


I focused then on the bit of rot on the very bottom edge of the boot section, I could see the seam sealer bubbling so I wire brushed it all off to check it oout.

More welding needed! I cut out the rot and made up the rear lip of the boot floor then the covering panel which was then zinc'd and hammerited.
Again I intend on Waxoyling this section. Anywhere out of sight is in fact goign to get this treatment as I want to get a good few miles under her belt before I do any of this again!


The rest of the edge was just sufrace rust so it was Kurusted and Zinc'd.

Thats it for now hope o get another day in this week and sort the other sill then I can get stuck into the sorting of the underside.

Cheers James

I've had alot of practice on gassless and have to admit never used a "proper" welder although I'm keen to try and get invisible repairs.

I find gassless is VERY sensitive to the metal being ultra clean, ideally on both sides. And I find building up using lots spot welds seems to work better than trying to seam weld.

You're a hero for saving this car! Very good work. I've had my 75 for about 6 weeks and though it has its issues, rust isn't one of them. I strongly recommend one of these Cars to anyone who is curious.

I'm glad to see you've been able to able to continue working upon it with so many other distractions. Great to see the results.

Took a day off to crack on today.

Focus was on finding any bubbling, lifting etc etc underseal, scrape it off, wire brush whats left, kurust and then hammerite. It all needs a second coat of hammerite then I'm waxoyling the lot all over.

I have had to hold back from stripping it all off as this is not a full resto and I want the car back on the road! I just want to prevent anything going any further, and use the chance of having everything off to have a tidy up.

I was neck breaking boring fithy work and I had to have multiple showers to get all the curse word out my hair!


























Cut the towing area off the spare wheel tub, its done a good job of holding water and breeding rust!! So some welding to be done here!

Took today out of the office, but had to pick up my dog at 3 from vets and going out at 7 so under instructions not to get filthy again :lol: , so did not get full day in.

Boring really, scrape, wire brush, kurust and repeat!! But nearly finished and ready to start putting things back! New copper arrived for fuel pipes take 2!




Found a BIG hole in the engine support area! So will get some thick plate and the welder out

Finally finished the first coat of waxoyl undersealing today, it will need a second but nice to see it all the same fresh black, and all the bits of crusty stuff gone!

So time to start putting stuff back on!

First up handbrake cable needed renewing while everything was off
Old

New

And in, simple job when everyhing is off the car

I just needed to replace the rotten securing tab futher back, I have been doing this all over the car as I have been going


It was time to redo my pants last attempt at fuel pipes, if you remember I made them to big and to flared and bent them badly fitting, and also had the idiotic idea of adding foam to protect the pipes. Which many immediately point out was a good way of capturing misture and getting all the rot I just got rid of back quickly :lol:

So I remade with smaller flares and exactly the same sizing, and used cut up rubber fuel pipe to protec the contact points of the copper pipe, and zip tied them further so they stay in place (unfortunately I had a choice of stupid big white zip ties or the right size in yellow)




All done



The battery was dead, so even after adding fuel I could not test to ensure it was all working ok with no leaks etc, so that will have to be done tommorow.

Removed the gearlever from under the car to check out this cracking



and decide if I wanted to cut some of the length out of the lever, but had to go spend some time with my litten by then so that was it for the day.

Oh, so can I press the bush and replace the o rings then?