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[Ben_O]

 

 

Superb.

 

It's all coming together nicely.

It really is!

 

I can't wait to get a working opening door on it. When i got the project, it didn't even have a door!

 

or anywhere to bolt one too....

 

 

 

Is it MOT'd yet?

 

Do you have a door?

 

lol.

 

I have a door mate. Bought it 2 years ago and it's been gathering dust ever since!

[Ben_O]

well i just popped on to somerfords website to price up the next few little bits.

 

I only need odds and sods and it's almost £90! That's eye watering for what i need!

 

 

Oh well, they got my by the danglies i guess, Needs must and all that.

[Hendred]

What and where is an inner sill stiffener Ben?  

[Ben_O]

What and where is an inner sill stiffener Ben?  

It goes behind the bottom of the quarter panel and spot welds to the top edge of the inner sill.

[Hendred]

Oh dear, I never put that on mine!  Behind the subframe mounting you mean don't you?

[Carlos W]

Just miss off the slinging brackets

[Hendred]

Actually thinking about it I put the old one back on, it has flanged edges all the way along and you can see it inside rear seat pockets?

 

Sorry Ben I shouldn't be asking questions on your thread

Edited by Hendred, 13 November 2014 - 09:18 AM.

[Ben_O]

Just miss off the slinging brackets

No way man!

[Ben_O]

Actually thinking about it I put the old one back on, it has flanged edges all the way along and you can see it inside rear seat pockets?

 

Sorry Ben I shouldn't be asking questions on your thread

Ask away mate!

 

I want my thread to be of use to people so if anyone has any questions, then fire away!

 

Yeah, sounds like what it is.

 

it can be seen in this photo/

 

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Ben

[ToM 2012]

Looking nice Ben keep up the good work mate cheers tom

[Hendred]

Thanks Ben, yep that's the kiddie I put back in, for a minute I thought I had forgotton the stiffener!

[Ben_O]

Not much to report from today's progress.

 

I have fully seam welded the inner sill on and started the laborious task of grinding and shaping the welds.

 

So to start with i took back off the step panel and other bits that i clamped in place on the last update and put them to one side.

 

So this is the inner sill tacked on as before

 

 

Soi started off by seam welding the front half of the floor to inner sill join. I decided to weld it from the inside and once i have finished, i will roll the shell back on its side and tidy the welds up from underneath as well.

 

So this is how i started off..

 

 

So on with the welding and i had this

 

 

Had to do a bit of trimming at the very front as the inner sill was overlapping the floor by a few thou so i didn't have a gap in which to get the weld in

 

 

so i opened it up with a 1mm cutting disc before continuing to seam weld that too.

 

So once fully seam welded i ended up with this

 

 

 

So next i need to grind and shape the welds. My no1 aim on this project is to have seamless invisible repairs where i can so this next part was crucial.

 

I started off taking the top off with an ordinary grinding disc to get the rough shape before going down to a thin 2mm cutting disc. This allows me to grind the actual weld more accurately without thinning the surrounding steel. It is far easier to control too.

 

So after 20 mins i had this

 

 

 

it still needs some final tweaking but i need a much smaller grinder so i will get some small stones for the multi tool so i can get in where the grinding stone can't

 

so a splash of zinc later and we have this

 

 

 

So that's good enough for now. You may notice that i removed the carpet retainers as these are for later cars and mine doesn't need them. They were each held on with four 4mm spot welds a piece.

 

Next i started to seam weld the rear half of the sill to floor join.

 

Not much to show here other than this

 

 

 

they will be shaped like the others tomorrow.

 

So here is where i am at the end of play today

 

 

i hoped to get much more done but have been to busy to get much time out there.

 

Thanks for looking

 

Ben

[Jared Mk3]

Great work. Really neat as well.

[Ben_O]

Great work. Really neat as well.

Cheers!

That's the name of the game

 

Ben

[rally515]

Beautiful grinding down of the Welds Ben!, super impressive!