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[Ben_O]

Great work on the arches! Mine have two largish holes in the top on both sides, is it easier to remove the whole arch rather than mess around with fixing a very inaccesible hole?

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It is much easier but the panel is quite expensive

Cheers

 

Lovely work as always ben !

thank you

 

Filler? What's filler?

I said filler-less 

[Ben_O]

back to the roof repairs today.

 

First up was to weld the seam in the gutter, grind it back and then re-shape the gutter back to how it was before i bent it out of the way to do the repair.

 

Ill just let the pictures do the talking, it's been a long day...

 

 

 

 

 

I'm calling that finished.. I can't be arsed to work it anymore.

 

and then some surgery on the n/s front corner. same sort of thing as the other repair, again, the pictures can speak for themselves

 

 

I scraped the sealer off and there was no paint at all underneath, not even primer. no wonder the rusted so much

 

 

 

 

 

 

it got late, so i left it there. still some grinding and tidying to do before bending the gutter back into shape.

 

More tomorrow....

 

Ben

[clubman91]

Looking great as always ben, great repairs, need to get cracking with myn =).
Mark.

[peterjh]

nice work, good recovery ! Glad you did post that it gives a good insight into how its done.

[Ben_O]

nice work, good recovery ! Glad you did post that it gives a good insight into how its done.

Cheers, it got there in the end

 

Ben

[peterjh]

is it a roof panel you are cutting the repair pieces from ?

[Ben_O]

is it a roof panel you are cutting the repair pieces from ?

Some old roof corners that i bought off of another member ages ago.

 

The roof corners were cut from the donor shell and included the windscreen frame/cant rail and all of the inner frame work and a good few inches of the pillars. when i repaired the drivers side front corner using one of the pieces, i made the mistake of cutting and shutting the whole piece including all the bits of post and frame.

 

I would not recommend that method unless those areas are rotten. It's much easier to just seperate the roof skin from the donor section and fit just that as i have done on the last two repairs.

 

Ben

[peterjh]

well from the photos you have posted it certainly looks like the best way to do it. Good to know .

[ger]

Awesome roof repairs. I'll be using your method as I got at least one to do on my GT.

[Ben_O]

Thank you guys 

[Ben_O]

Sadly, this will be the last update for a while. Maybe until next year now

 

All i have to show for today is a finished roof repair

 

 

And after a whole day of packing up the garage ready for moving, i put all of the panels i have into the shell.

 

 

I actually feel quite sad..

 

The next challenge is to get all of this into 2 medium sized sheds (apart from the bench, fridge freezer and server cabinet)

 

 

I've chucked loads away but still might need the help of Mary poppins

 

Thanks for looking.

 

Ben

[James_eaton_thewholething]

All the best with the move Ben. Your work is as awesome as ever on that roof panel. I'm sure you will manage to get all that stuff into the two sheds. Will be waiting for an update in the near future

[Covert]

Good luck with the move ben, hope you get on ok .

[Ben_O]

thanks guys

 

[mini_matt_106]

Best of luck! I really hate moving!!