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[SAL 821X]

Looking good Sal..your be painting before you know it

 

Lets hope so pal :0)

 

Those welds look great mate!

 

Cheers

Ben

 

Cheers Ben, I makes wonders having a decent welder I wish I had done it earlier.

[SAL 821X]

I've just remembered that I tried to take the pedals out over the weekend to clean them up and snapped one of the shear bolts off.

 

How the hell am I meant to get the bolt out now its sheared off!

 

Cut it?

[danie garry]

I've just remembered that I tried to take the pedals out over the weekend to clean them up and snapped one of the shear bolts off.

 

How the hell am I meant to get the bolt out now its sheared off!

 

Cut it?

 

did it have its hex head still on it  that was supposed to shear off when it was first put in?? just cut a slot into it and use a flat head screw driver

[Ben_O]

 

I've just remembered that I tried to take the pedals out over the weekend to clean them up and snapped one of the shear bolts off.

 

How the hell am I meant to get the bolt out now its sheared off!

 

Cut it?

 

did it have its hex head still on it  that was supposed to shear off when it was first put in?? just cut a slot into it and use a flat head screw driver

 

Or if its in tight and its possible to do so without damaging anything, you could weld a nut or bolt onto the remains of the bolt and get a spanner on it.

 

Ben

[SAL 821X]

Yep both still had the hex head on the end before I started to take one off. So now one has the head on and the other just has a dome where the head snapped. 

 

Will try and get the grinder in and slot the dome failing that I'll try weld a bolt/nut to it.

 

So when I come to put the pedals back in your meant to tighten the bolt up until it shears off?

[danie garry]

Yep both still had the hex head on the end before I started to take one off. So now one has the head on and the other just has a dome where the head snapped. 

 

Will try and get the grinder in and slot the dome failing that I'll try weld a bolt/nut to it.

 

So when I come to put the pedals back in your meant to tighten the bolt up until it shears off?

 

providing that its a shear bolt then yes but i'd just use a standard bolt and nyloc nut

[SAL 821X]

More progress tonight.

Still trying to get to a point that the new subby mount can go in.


Cut some room out the floor so its easier to get in. Replacing the floor anyway now.


Looking interesting in there.


Cut some of the sill off to have a look and holey moley!!! What do you know !


Crusty bits that came out.


Still got to get the bodged inner sill out.


Thats as far as i got.

[minbin 69]

Getting there mate..at least you know there can't be much more bad bits to find..you've nearly opened up every panel on your van

[minimissions]

Project is coming alone nice :) cant wait to get on with my van :)

 

Do you no when you will be painting it yet?

[SAL 821X]

Not in a month of sundays thats for sure mate! 

 

But hoping to have most the bodywork done by christmas so perhaps the new year with luck. 

[minimissions]

Sounds good, it will make all the hard work worth it :) just itching to get on mine now, i love my sidewalk but the van is my dream mini and wana get started on it :)

 

I like your colours your going for the AA yellow will look mint :)

[SAL 821X]

Cheers fella its been a dream of mine too for many years now.

 

This is one car I will never sell though.

[minimissions]

Thats a fair enough point, I can understand that as i am the same, I have been into minis since i can remember and all i have ever wanted is a van, 10 minis later this is number 11 so i wont be selling had a vision of how its going to look for ages and like you say never to sell up even with all the head aches its going to cause lol

[SAL 821X]

Got a few more bobs of weld on the floor today.

Edited by SAL 821X, 28 September 2013 - 06:51 PM.

[SAL 821X]

Quick question again folks been thinking again! Dangerous I know.

Now the floor is almost finished on the drivers side. Should I put the sill on before flipping it over or flip it over and do the other side before putting both sills on last?