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[jamesquintin]

With the floor tacked in place I've started work on the door step.

 

 

I chopped the centre section of the step out so I could line up the jack bracket with the sill and got that welded in place

 

 

 

I got the rest of the opening cleaned up

 

 

Annoyingly I don't have the A-Panel for this side, so will need to wait for that until I can get it properly welded up
 

[Steve220]

Epic work as always, James!

[jamesquintin]

Epic work as always, James!

Thanks! I'm so moneysupermarket

[jamesquintin]

Crackign on with this now... I prepped the door step panel:

 

and after lots of fiddling, tweaking and swearing, I got the hinge and door step panels lined up and spot welded together:

 

 

I added these two spot welds to the check strap thingy. I didn't do this on the other side... Will have to check that!

 

 

It took AGES to get some half decent door gaps. The front is fine, but the rear doesn't match the other side, so will have to sort that when I replace the door skins

 

 

 

Once I was happy with the gaps I spot welded it all in, but not at the rear as I still have to slide the rear strengthening bracket in 

 

Will have to sort the big gap out...

 

 

The gap at the back was tight, so welded that in and gave it a tickle with the grinder

 

 

 

Also welded on the rear sling bolt bracket

 

Annoyingly couldn't do the front one as I hadn't stripped the paint back on the floor panel!

 

After that I got cracking with removing the rear wheel arch:

 

 

 

Still have the flanges to tidy up, and remove the seatbelt bracket

 

 

 

Quite enough for one day I think!!

[jamesquintin]

Not much done today, just cracking on with fidly jobs. Got more of the halves welded together:

 

 

Added the front handbrake bracket (will tidy it up)

 

I popped the carpet back in as I wanted to check the position of the seat bracket and the holes for the seatbelts

 

 

Obviously I also just sat in it pretending it was all finished

 

[Alice Dooper]

Brilliant work. Really enjoying this rebuild.

[jamesquintin]

Brilliant work. Really enjoying this rebuild.

 

Thanks! Sometimes get the feeling no one is watching ;)

[johnR]

Really nice build with good attention to detail, well done. 

JohnR

[Alice Dooper]

I'd say a lot of people are watching and admiring just like me.

[MacGyver]

I'd say a lot of people are watching and admiring just like me.

Shhhhh! He's not supposed to know! 😉

Plenty watching you! ...no pressure...

[jamesquintin]

Phew! At least I'm not jsut shouting into the abyss...

​Anyway, a little more done today. I was up at 5:30 with the dog, so quite tired

 

Tidied up the handbrake bracket, needs a little more sanding (I welded up a nick in the side from the cutting disc)

 

After careful measuring against the old floor (I kept the tunnel bit) I cut the holes for the seatbelt mount using my step cutter (14mm FYI)

 

 

Then I welded on the extra bracket. It stops the MPI seatbelt anchors from rotating backwards too far (not sure if this was a safety requirement?)

 

 

I carried on with welding the rest of the tunnel join. Annoyingly my grinder can't get under here, will need to invest in a dremmel! 

 

 

Then had a bit of a tidy up as it was getting quite messy in my 'work' area

 

Then I prepped the wheel arch, ready to go in tomorrow (hopefully)

 

 

 

 

 

Edited by jamesquintin, 07 May 2017 - 07:03 PM.

[jamesquintin]

Slightly more done now... I am getting pretty tired of all this, but there we go.

​Anyway, prepped the arch section ready for the new arch to go in:

 

Plug welded the seatbelt anchor and drilled the holes to plug weld to the bracket in the boot:
 

 

 

Also prepped the original arch/floor bracket:

 

 

Then set about welding the sucker in!

 

 

 

 

 

Just need the companion bin now, which I'll have to wait for as Minispares have none in stock

 

[Steve220]

I'm quietly watching as well, Jim! Mainly out of fear of doing some of this myself and wondering if i've done any of it right! lol

 

Out of curiosity, what zinc primer are you using on the panels?

[toplessmini]

_{Looking good....}

[jamesquintin]

I'm quietly watching as well, Jim! Mainly out of fear of doing some of this myself and wondering if i've done any of it right! lol
 
Out of curiosity, what zinc primer are you using on the panels?

I use upol #2 zinc primer. About £16 a can and I'm on my third one...