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[Ben_O]

Today was the final push for the panel work on this Mini and there was still lots to do.

 

First up, I welded in the crossmember end

 

 

And then the outer sill and jacking point needed to go on

 

 

There was an issue with the step. A replacement had been fitted previously and being a Magnum type step, the folds were wrong. I am sure some of you will be aware of this problem with those panels.

 

 

I can get the step to come over to meet the sill but only with the sill off. I could dress the sill in to meet the the step but I had noticed that the step sat in too far from the bottom of the door as this earlier picture shows

 

 

I'm not happy leaving it like that so...

 

I spot welded some washers to the step and intervals

 

 

And then used a slide hammer to pull the step over

 

 

It's not under any tension in the photo as I couldn't hold it and take the pic

 

But once held over, I clamped it up to get this

 

 

And then spot welded it

 

 

 

And now the door looks acceptable

 

 

I needed to spot weld the front edge of the sill to the step and the bottom of the A panel but it looked a bit suspect

 

 

I cleaned it back to reveal this

 

 

I decided to patch it up to give me something to weld to

 

 

Next up was the quarter panel

 

 

Once that was cut out, I had this

 

 

So I made up a new piece

 

 

Which I then trimmed up and clamped in place ready to weld

 

 

And then welded and dressed

 

 

I also spot welded the companion bin bottom to the floor, Repaired the front edge of the companion bin where it spot welds to the inner sill as well as welding up the jacking point to the outer sill.

No pictures but the same process as the other side.

 

Next, I dressed the weld seam where the new inner sill joins the existing floor and gave everything a spray up

 

 

 

 

 

The only panel work remaining now was the flitch repair. Unfortunately, I just ran out of time.

I need to empty the workshop tomorrow ready for the floor to be painted on Friday so I shall finish that last small repair in the new year.

 

The last thing today then was to get the car rolling. I put on the wheels, dropped it to the floor and then took some pics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And that is the last update of 2017.

 

Happy Christmas everyone 

 

Ben

[panky]

And a happy Christmas to you   - I expect you'll want to take the whole of Christmas day off

[JXC Mini GT]

Great work Ben, Happy Christmas to you and all the team at Mill Road Garage.

 

 

PS: I can see my Mini in the last photo and this will be the 2nd Christmas it has spent with you.

[Marco1972]

Great job Ben

Have a great Xmas and enjoy the break 👍🏻

[Avtovaz]

happy christmas mate, hope you have a good one ;))) thanks for the updates!

[CityEPete]

I haven't checked in for a while, still excellent work and progress, I love it!

[Petrol]

Good work Ben as always.

Happy Christmas.

 

Pete

[Ben_O]

I haven't checked in for a while, still excellent work and progress, I love it!

Thanks Pete 

 

Good work Ben as always.

Happy Christmas.

 

Pete

Cheers

Happy Christmas to you too

Ben

[Vinay-RS]

Read through this full thread, awesome work on this car, Ben. Looks great! If you don't mind me asking, what are your other Mill Road Garage build? Keen to read through all of them. 

[Ben_O]

Read through this full thread, awesome work on this car, Ben. Looks great! If you don't mind me asking, what are your other Mill Road Garage build? Keen to read through all of them. 

Cheers Vinay!

 

The other builds can be found here

 

http://www.theminifo...l road garage

 

http://www.theminifo...-isle-of-wight/

 

http://www.theminifo...-isle-of-wight/

 

And this one which will be continuing this month and is our own Mini

 

http://www.theminifo...and-rusty-mini/

 

Ben

[Ben_O]

Happy new year everyone.

 

Time to get back on this Mini and get it ready for paint

 

 

The main bit left to do welding wise is the flitch repair

 

This is the area minus the bit I cut out last time

 

 

it's exactly the same process as the other side so first needs to be cleaned back

 

 

Then I needed to cut out a section of floor, toe board and some more of the inner wing

 

 

 

First is the floor pan piece

 

 

And then the flitch bottom which gets fabricated and tacked in place. I have also began spot welding some of it too

 

 

Next, the edge gets welded to the outer sill end

 

 

And then a Toe board piece gets made and tacked in

 

 

Then I can trim and fold the flitch bottom around the toe board repair and weld everything up fully

 

 

 

And then have a grind up

 

 

 

And we are done.

 

Time to remove the rear subframe then

 

 

There was a bit more welding to do once the subframe was removed that couldn't be accessed with it in so that is almost finished now too.

 

By the end of tomorrow, I should have the old underseal removed from the underside and some of the prep started.

 

Thanks for looking

 

Ben

[miniireland]

This is stunning work

[projectjordan]

 

Read through this full thread, awesome work on this car, Ben. Looks great! If you don't mind me asking, what are your other Mill Road Garage build? Keen to read through all of them. 

Cheers Vinay!

 

The other builds can be found here

 

http://www.theminifo...l road garage

 

http://www.theminifo...-isle-of-wight/

 

http://www.theminifo...-isle-of-wight/

 

And this one which will be continuing this month and is our own Mini

 

http://www.theminifo...and-rusty-mini/

 

Ben

 

Awesome...that's my afternoons 'work' sorted

[Ben_O]

 

 

Read through this full thread, awesome work on this car, Ben. Looks great! If you don't mind me asking, what are your other Mill Road Garage build? Keen to read through all of them. 

Cheers Vinay!

 

The other builds can be found here

 

http://www.theminifo...l road garage

 

http://www.theminifo...-isle-of-wight/

 

http://www.theminifo...-isle-of-wight/

 

And this one which will be continuing this month and is our own Mini

 

http://www.theminifo...and-rusty-mini/

 

Ben

 

Awesome...that's my afternoons 'work' sorted

 

There is another which I forgot to add

 

http://www.theminifo...-isle-of-wight/

[Ben_O]

Today has been spent on my back underneath the Mini scraping off the 1/4" thick underseal.

 

I don't have any photographs of the progress so far but will pop some up next week once I have finished.I also finished the last of the welding which was a couple of plug welds on the heelboard and welding on the rear slinging brackets.

 

Once I finish the underside, Ill get on with the prep.

 

Cheers

 

Ben