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[Ben_O]

What is the slinging bracket for and is it necessary if not bothered by it not being original?

It was used to attach the slings in the factory to assist with moving the shells around.

 

It's not needed and personally, i would leave them off but as i am going for originality, i had to reinstate them.

[Hendred]

 

What is the slinging bracket for and is it necessary if not bothered by it not being original?

It was used to attach the slings in the factory to assist with moving the shells around.

 

It's not needed and personally, i would leave them off but as i am going for originality, i had to reinstate them.

 

Totally agree you have to on yours, thanks Ben for the reply.

[SAL 821X]

Wowee just catching up with the last 4 or 5 pages after being on Holidays. Your going great guns Ben, wish my panel gaps looked as good as that straight off! 

[Ben_O]

Wowee just catching up with the last 4 or 5 pages after being on Holidays. Your going great guns Ben, wish my panel gaps looked as good as that straight off! 

Cheers mate

[Ben_O]

Not much at all done today but a little progress i thought i would share anyway.

 

I turned my attention to removing the remains of the heel board which meant removing some of the tar pad from the seat base

 

 

With that chipped away, i marked out the position of the spot welds

 

 

And then drilled them out.

 

Next after removing the remains of the heel board, i set about removing the remains of the fillet piece that sits in front of the arch tub. It is spot welded through the companion bin to the boot floor behind.

I drilled the spot welds right through and this is it halfway through the wiggling, tugging and bashing to get it off.

 

 

And here it is removed and the bin straightened back out.

 

 

Then i cleaned the area up ready to try the heel board.

 

 

Then popped the heelboard in place with some clamps. It looks ok but i'm a bit confused about how the outer sill fits to the heelboard.

 

 

Is it like this?

 

 

Or like this??

 

 

Any help with that would be great.

 

Cheers

 

Ben

[cookie4343]

Looking good Ben, sill is fitted right in first picture.

[Ben_O]

Looking good Ben, sill is fitted right in first picture.

Cheers, i thought so.

 

Ben

[Stu.]

Coming along nicely there Ben. Is that a half heelboard or have you cut a full one? Are you doing it half at a time?

[1984mini25]

 

Looking good Ben, sill is fitted right in first picture.

Cheers, i thought so.

 

Ben

 

 

The first one is correct, but personally I'd do the second as it would look neater once welded.

[Ben_O]

Coming along nicely there Ben. Is that a half heelboard or have you cut a full one? Are you doing it half at a time?

It's a half heelboard.

 

I wanted to get one side of the car fully welded up before starting the other. To fit a full heelboard, i would have had to repair the other side before fitting.

I can't see the issue with fitting halves as long as the subframe is used to make sure the two halves are correctly aligned.

 

Cheers

 

Ben

[Ben_O]

 

 

Looking good Ben, sill is fitted right in first picture.

Cheers, i thought so.

 

Ben

 

 

The first one is correct, but personally I'd do the second as it would look neater once welded.

 

I tend to agree.

I think it would look neater plus i intend to weld up the heelboard seems and grind flat anyway.

 

Cheers

 

Ben

[Ben_O]

another small update today as i managed to get in the garage for a couple of hours.

 

I put the shell back down the right way up and started by removing the sealer from the back edge of the floor.

 

 

I prefer to burn it off so i set it on fire

 

 

And then gave it a scrape and a wire brush and that's done

 

 

I wanted to get the quarter panel off today so i though it might be a good idea to replace the waist rail first. It needed changing as there was significant rust on the top flange

 

 

First job was to mark out all of the spot welds from the inside

 

 

The reason being the spot welds are very faint on this car so hard to see from behind a face shield

So next, i drilled them

 

 

And then carefully split them. It was prudent to do this carefully as i needed to keep the top egde of the quarter panel straight and intact to line the new waist rail up to.

Once the spot welds were split, it was then just a case of bending the waist rail back and forth to break the seam weld that holds the back edge to the rear bulkhead.

 

here it is removed

 

 

 

and the new one. (well used actually)

 

 

I gave it a good look over and even though it looked great, i imagined there would be rust between the waist rail and the trim retainer so i drilled the spot welds holding it on and i wasn't wrong.

 

 

Pretty nasty but salvageable. I gave it a good clean up removing all of the rust from the pitting

 

 

 

zinc primed

 

 

and then clamped the two pieces back together

 

 

After welding them up and cleaning them back it looked like this

 

 

As good as a new one and didn't cost me a penny

Anyway, i clamped it onto the car using the old quarter panel to help align it

 

 

and then welded it in

 

 

Once that was done, i finally lopped the quarter panel off

 

 

It didn't put up much of a fight but there was alot of filler down the back edge which made a mess whilst i was cutting through it.

 

And then i clamped the new second hand quarter on just to check it all fits. Which it does!

 

 

and that was it for today.

 

Cheers

 

Ben

[Carlos W]

That looks a lot better fit than my new (non-genuine) one

[Ben_O]

That looks a lot better fit than my new (non-genuine) one

It needs a bit of repair work but nothing much really and it saved on a new panel

[Steve8274]

Great work as usual. Can I ask what you used to remove paint of the waist rail. Looks thorough and I can never remove all the paint.
Thanks