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[mini_mad69]

My little bit of rust, turned into a bit more. As it always does.....realy wasn't expecting it.

MOT test is tomorrow at mid day. I had a bald tyre on the back, so have swapped a pair of steals onto the back for the MOT.



You can see the small hole in the wheel arch, that's all I thought it was, but a quick poke with a screwdriver and it got worse.



Much worse.



Out with the grinder.



First bit of welding.



The dust by the jack, is whats remaining of the boot floor and valance closing panels.



Template made for missing closing panel. It was made and welded in.





Now boot floor corner made.




Welded in and more patches made.



The rest of the lip was going the same way, so rust treated.



All welded up, tank strap bracket welded back in, and all treated and primed.



Treated and primed for MOT purposes.



The rest of the lip painted, and tank back in.


Putting my MOT lights on




Fog light on, legal number plate back on. All wired up and ready to go for MOT tomorrow. Hopefully my new front (legal) number plate will arrive tomorrow morning and in time.




All painted up,



Theres the patch in the wheel arch, where all this rust started.


Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

[mentalmini89]

great work mate and good luck on the mot tommorow
dean

[mini_mad69]

It passed, with its traditional oil leak advisory, and an advisory for a cv boot on its way out.




My new rear plate light arrived, so I can get rid of my nasty chunky thing and fit the subtle one.

Not bad, just need to carry on with my Riv run prep.

Edited by mini_mad69, 20 April 2011 - 12:29 PM.

[crazycoleman118]

Looks good! shame about the rust though, looking foward to seeing this at riv run!

[mini_mad69]

Looks good! shame about the rust though, looking foward to seeing this at riv run!

Cheers man, but its nothing special at all, it's very rough around the edges.

Feel free to come have a chat at riv.

[HARBER07]

Bish bash bosh!! Nice work man!

And where did you get that rear light thing from?. Need something like that for the Minus!

[mini_mad69]

Bish bash bosh!! Nice work man!

And where did you get that rear light thing from?. Need something like that for the Minus!

click

[CaptainBland08]

they sell those little led pods in the likes of maplin and pc world etc... heavily used when modding pc's... (i know from my nerd days)

nice work with ye olde welder there ben... i assume youll grind it down and paint it properly???

that rug is gash by the way...

Chris

[mini_mad69]

Yeah, im gunna paint it nicely.

[mini_mad69]

One used diff



Dismantled.

The output shafts will be used in my x-pin diff.



A bit of filler over my repair.











Nice and discreet.

More tomorrow. Oh and got a new tyre and the monkeys stole my posh valve cover and dust cap!

Edited by mini_mad69, 21 April 2011 - 10:42 PM.

[mymini007]

Looking good mate, mine should have an MOT on monday too

[mini_mad69]

Looking good mate, mine should have an MOT on monday too

Sounds good, should be all ready for riv then.

[mini_mad69]

Not much to report. Been busy doing other things, but got 20 mins on it tonight.

Started stripping my 998 for some gearbox bits.



Stripping it while balancing on those bricks was tricky, i'm lucky it didn't fall off. I'll carry on tomorrow, when i can make more noise and it's not 1am.


I only need the crown wheel and central oil pickup out of it, I'll build it up into a good gearbox I've got here and fit all my best bits, hopefully get it changed over by the end of the weekend.

[mini_mad69]

Doing this in my clear plastic roof shed is rather warm, so keep on having to come in and get a drink.


At least i'm getting somewhere now.



998 off box, oil pickup pipe removed, I need the crown wheel out of it aswell. Then just bolt it all together into another box, and slap it into the car...........easy.

[mini_mad69]

Built my diff.



Started building up the gearbox, see what on the input shaft?

Unfortunately, I couldn't get it out of gear, and fiddling with it I managed to shoot ball bearings and springs across my shed.



So will try again on another gearbox, and hopefully keep the gear selector in the right place when I lock it into gear.