teaboy
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I started my last report saying that I was feeling under the weather and that hasn't changed. I got absolutely nothing done at the weekend, just didn't have the energy. I had good intentions on Monday after work but it didn't happen. It could, quite easily have been the same story tonight but I forced myself to do something. It had to be something straightforward and easy so I looked at this bubbly bit around the jack point. I removed the jacking block. When I wire wheeled it it looked like this. There was a little bit of rust on there but I think it will respond ok to some chemical treatment, I don't feel the need to cut it out and replace it. As I had the wire wheely thing out I decided to start cleaning up the rest of the driver's side floor. I have to remove all the undercoating because whilst it is in place we have what is effectively, a Schrodinger's floor. It may be rusty and dead, it may be shiny and alive or both things at once, but we will never know until it is observed. To observe it involves numb fingers and getting covered in this stuff. There are a couple of areas that will need some rust treatment of some sort after I have finished cleaning up. Maybe I will feel a bit more energised tomorrow. Cheers.
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teaboy
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Yesterday I thought that it would be an excellent idea to start cleaning up the floorpan ready for paint. It is still a good idea but I remembered an order of procedure problem. A long time ago, I removed the seat crossmember so that I could repair the floor beneath it. This will need to go back in before the floor is painted or it will burn it back off. I had cleaned and epoxied inside the crossmember when I took it off but I needed to sand the paint off the flanges where it will be welded. I also sanded the floor where it fits. I didn't fancy loads of masking up to spray weld through primer on there so I mixed up some 2k weld through and brushed it on. The floor too, of course. In order to have a fighting chance of getting the seat back in, the crossmember needs to fit in exactly the right place. This is where the seat crossmember jig thing comes in. As I don't have any really massive welding clamps to hold the crossmember to the floor, I used a few tek-screws to hold it down for welding. It seemed to work ok so I welded it in and ground the welds back. I even remembered to put the main battery cable in before I welded it down. That is now fixed in and not coming back out in a rush, just need a drop of spooge to protect it before it gets painted. I am still ignoring the inner arches... Cheers.
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teaboy
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Jun 12, 2024 20:58:04 GMT
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Yes, I am still alive and kicking. I've been away for a few days, 'darn sarf'. The Doc was landing at Heathrow last Friday, now that her secret mission is completed so I met her in Wembley. I had booked B&B which offered free on street parking but apparently that doesn't include days when there are events at the stadium. I had managed to coincide with both football and rugby matches on consecutive days so it cost me sixty quid in parking permits. As I found myself in London on a Saturday morning it meant that I was a long way from Ten Acres Cafe but the Doc found this place, which was half decent and didn't have a menu consisting only of variations on smashed avocado. By lucky coincidence, there was a band playing at the arena in Wembley on Saturday night. It was cheaper to see them in France last year than it was to see them in London. Sunday we called in to see my daughter, granddaughter, son-in-law and the very soon to be launched massive bulge that will be my grandson. Anyway, there has been nothing exciting happening in the tent. The job at hand is cleaning the driver's side floor to prep for paint. I did the large areas with the wire wheely thing on the grinder but now I'm into all the fiddly bits where you can't get the grinder in. I tried a drill with a wire brush in it but it was too difficult to use. I ended up with these tiny brushes. In the Dremel with a flexible shaft thing. Where I am working, in the picture above, there is the chassis rail on the left and the outer floor on the right drops down to the same depth as the chassis. This leaves a trough the length of the floor where you can't get the grinder in to remove the underbody coating. As you might imagine, cleaning all that off with a Dremel has taken ages and it doesn't leave any photogenic results. One part that is definitely not photogenic is this flange on the chassis rail. It is quite pitted with rust and I am concerned as to what might be going on in the seam with the floor. It is going to have to come out and be replaced. Cheers.
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Last Edit: Jun 12, 2024 21:01:57 GMT by teaboy
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You have the patience of a saint, Mr T
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braaap
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You live in the country with the best contemporary music of allsorts, but go to a concerts of some german copycats??? ;-)
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thomfr
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Jun 13, 2024 11:02:57 GMT
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I enjoyed an Australian band (together with one of my 13 year old daughters) in the Amsterdam Arena. Took me 1,5 hour to leave the parking (which was by far not the nearest but they manage to create a parking, road chaos every time). But the poor people who came by train had to hitchhike home (we also took some on) as the trains where not going southwards due to a technical issue.. But we loved the concert! Thom ps: they did not serve cake of any sort :-(
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Last Edit: Jun 13, 2024 11:03:58 GMT by thomfr
73' Alfa Giulia Super 64' Volvo Duett 65' Volvo Duett 67' Volvo Amazon 123GT 09' Ford Focus 1.8 06' Citroen C4 Exclusive
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teaboy
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Jun 13, 2024 20:16:56 GMT
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You have the patience of a saint, Mr T Cheers, Phil. You live in the country with the best contemporary music of allsorts, but go to a concerts of some german copycats??? ;-) The thread is full of German cars, it seems like the right thing to have some German Rock music to go with it. I enjoyed an Australian band (together with one of my 13 year old daughters) in the Amsterdam Arena. But we loved the concert! Thom ps: they did not serve cake of any sort :-( I'll bet that was a good show. Yesterday's exciting discovery... Was that there might be some rust on this car. I couldn't ignore it, I started cutting it out. When I lifted it away, it was a bit scabby in there. It doesn't look too bad, what is the piece of chassis like? It is a good job that I'm replacing that bit. I gave the area of floor a good clean up. I think I will just treat the floor, it doesn't need replacing. That hole that is in the picture above is from the spot weld drill. I used some of that phos clean stuff on it, you can see where it has gone black straight away in the pitted area. That was shiny when I cleaned it up with no sign of any rust remaining but it must have been hiding in those pits. I didn't bother making the replacement piece for the chassis because it had started raining whilst I was in the tent and I didn't fancy walking up to the shed and getting soaked, might make it next time. Cheers
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teaboy
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Jun 17, 2024 19:57:07 GMT
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The weekend has passed in a flash. It could have been a flash flood with the rain we've had. Anyway, didn't do a thing on the car for one reason or another. Father's day was one of the distractions. Inside it says that I am the best second favorite parent ever. Anyway, I had this piece cut out and treated with Rustbuster stuff. Maybe I shouldn't have left it unpainted for so long but it had rusted again, which was annoying. I cleaned it all off and went back to the old spooge. I was going to make a new piece for the chassis. I had it in my mind that it would be 1.2mm thick the same as the chassis section along the edge of the tunnel but it felt a bit thicker so I checked it. So, more or less, 2.0mm. I knew that I had a piece of 2mm somewhere and it had a ninety degree fold already on it, which would make life easier. It would have made life easier if I didn't have to spend over an hour looking for it... Cheers.
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Jun 19, 2024 19:35:01 GMT
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At the moment I'm not really enjoying this, it is starting to feel like a chore. I am doing little bits and pieces just to keep going until I regain my motivation. Last night I got some more spooge into the bottom of the chassis leg, just in case. I had my roughed out chassis repair section. This needed trimming to size and drilling for plug welding, so I did that. Tonight I wanted to get some epoxy inside the chassis so I masked off where I will need to weld. I also masked the edges of the repair section. I mixed up a drop of paint and daubed it on. And inside the chassis. That's it. Hopefully tomorrow I will get it unmasked and get some weld through primer on those bits then it will be ready to weld in. Cheers.
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Once the rust repair and repainting/coating has been completed, how far apart is the car … as in, how much work will there to be to reassemble and get it back on the road?
John
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teaboy
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Jun 20, 2024 21:12:12 GMT
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Once the rust repair and repainting/coating has been completed, how far apart is the car … as in, how much work will there to be to reassemble and get it back on the road? John There is a bit of work to put it back together. It will need new brake pipes, fuel system back on, rear axle back on (not looking forward to that, it's a big lump), prop shaft, exhaust (which has been repaired), all the heat shields and underside plastics and the interior to re-fit. When all that is done I do want to whip the front wings off to sort out the inner wings which, hopefully, will not involve any welding. There's still a bit to do, isn't there? Tonight I unmasked the bits I painted yesterday. I painted on some weld through primer which soon dried because it is like summer at the moment. I got it tacked in to place. Because this is 2mm thick I had the power turned up higher than it has been for months. I didn't want to weld the full run along the bottom edge in one go in case the heat made it go wiggly, so I did it a bit at a time. I was in a horribly uncomfortable position doing that but luckily I only had one big spark get me. It cleaned up ok. I gave it a drop of spooge because I'm not quite ready to paint the floor yet. After that I was under there just having a quick look around to see what I had left to do. Once I realised that I wasn't going to be painting it for a while, I gave it a second coat of spooge, just in case. Cheers.
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