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[Ben_O]

 

looks brilliant mate

 

Cheers, i'm pleased as punch with it, will trial fit the door again tomorrow just to double double check it but nothing moved so should be golden. I hope i dont have to do this with the other side.

 

I thought i would get away with mine on the other side after doing more or less the same as you have just done.

 

i was wrong..............

 

Repair looks ace though

[sonikk4]

Cheers Ben,

 

on with the flitch repair today so basically ended up with this, panel pinned in place

 

And welded in place and ground down

 

The top needs a new section fabricating so will sort that out probably next week. Then that will be out of the way.

 

Did trial the door again and some persuasion was needed on the A post to move it fwd slightly. No point in going mad at this point in time as i need the car off the spit before i gap the doors properly. As long as its roughly in the hole then i can go from there.  

[myredmini]

Awesome work as usual Neil!

[sonikk4]

Awesome work as usual Neil!

 

Cheers Dan,

 

well it was time for the outer sill but first thing i had to do was rescue the old jacking point i had fitted previously.

 

And after a bit of cleaning up and careful positioning its now in place

 

More than strong enough and it will get used as it was before.

 

So a bit more prep was needed on the outer sill, some redundant holes needed to be filled first

 

Happy with that so a bit of epoxy primer and topcoat later

 

and the inner sill got some more of the same

 

Back to the workshop tomorrow as Paddy has a Photo shoot.

[rich2]

Nice! Going in a magazine? I'll be looking out for it!

[sonikk4]

Nice! Going in a magazine? I'll be looking out for it!

Should be in Mini Mags" On the job section "in two months time.

[ribz0]

Awesome work Neil!!

[sonikk4]

Inner sill time, l/h side so before

inner sill off

and here it is

[sonikk4]

And in with the new sill, well sort of, tacked in place

But a fly in the ointment, there floor pans do not match, had the same issue with Wills Mini Special

A job for tomorrow i feel, anyway the rest of it welded in

and ground down

 

a bit of hammer and block work to do to finish it off.

[Ben_O]

coming on well Neil

[sonikk4]

coming on well Neil

 

Cheers Ben, got a bit of work to do with the front of the floor pan where it lips over the toeboard. There be rust lurking between so i will chopping sections out of both.

[Wise Old Elf]

Same as I did mine. I thought you overlapped your floor repairs last time?

[sonikk4]

Same as I did mine. I thought you overlapped your floor repairs last time?

I did on Wills Mini Special. One thing doing it for yourself, another doing it for someone else. He did get the option though. It was actually cheaper to joggle the floor rather than butt weld.

[sonikk4]

Sorted the front of the floor pan and quite happy with it

 

Quick splash of epoxy primer

Leaving the rest of the welds at the front until i have sorted the front of the floor pan. Everything will have another dose of hammer and dolly work before a skim of filler. 

[Daz1968]

Looking really good