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[Tupers]

I am really enjoying this rebuild thread.

Fantastic fabrication all around, really!

Me too, thanks for the complement.

Great work, that shrinker has had some hammering now hasn't it !! Nice attention to detail with the inspection holes too.

Graham

It's certainly earning it keep. Oddly the inspection holes are one of favorite pieces of the floor.



So another morning of work, I fired up the mig and welded the lip on to the floor section.


The floor need a little shaping due to the step in the cross member that it is welded to.


I decided the best way of shaping it was to Celco the floor in place and whack it with a piece of wood and hammer.




With that done I could finally move onto getting the floor welded in but as my luck is I ran out of shield gas after 18 plugs.

[grahama]

Looking crap as usual pal !!

[alex-95]

Excellent fabrication skill's there, This is one of My favourite build thread's

[Tupers]

Cheers guys.


We finally got a fresh gas bottle so I popped down this afternoon and got the floor welded up.


Slapped some primer on it before I left, more tomorrow.

[DaveJH]

Great work as always!

[Tupers]

I did get more work done than I've got pictures off but this'll have to do until tomorrow.

The first lip I'd made to wrap around the arch went a bit wrong so I started again and came up with this.


I welded the rear section of the lip and then got the front piece sorted. I also got the underside of the panel zinc primed and 50% of it welded up.

[Tupers]

Back at it, I finished welding the drivers side floor section in this morning.




Once it had cooled I got the plug welds ground down and added a few coats of zinc primer.




Everything Celco'd back in for the last time.


I got the back section welded up but my knees were killing me so I'll finish it tomorrow.

[mini danny]

looking good buddy don't suppose you still got the original floor have you ????

[hughJ]

Amazing fabrication!

Hugh

[Tupers]

looking good buddy don't suppose you still got the original floor have you ????

Sadly not, it got chopped into little pieces and sent to the scrap yard as there wasn't much worth saving.

Amazing fabrication!

Cheers Hugh.


Chucked another couple of hours in this afternoon and got the rear section of the floor completely welded, ground and primed and the front section welded.







I should be able to do a few more hours tomorrow and get the sides on then I'm done.

[grahama]

Far too nice !!! You need to slot in some ugly welds too if you want to stay a TMF member lol !!

[Tupers]

There's some nasty welds on this, it's the first thing I ever welded.

[Tupers]

Got the tank box 99% fo the way there now, just a few plug welds left that I'll do when the shell's bare again.

[grahama]

My good welds aren't as good as your practice ones , grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr !! Getting a better welder for the next project and some talent off Ebay !!

Boot looking excellent, a fantastic job well done.

Graham

[hughJ]

That is clever

Hugh