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[minimissions]

wow your really cracking on fast! keep those pics coming :)

[minimikej]

Next up, weld the o/s front corner repair down 2 sides.

 

Couldn't get the grinder in to tidy up, I'll get the belt sander on that later.

2019-05-05_03-42-17 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

 

Rear valance off next:

2019-05-05_03-44-00 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

 

This repair was glued on with mastic!

2019-05-05_03-44-13 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

 

87cm - ish - from heelboard to inner valance:
2019-05-05_03-44-51 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

 

 

Then on to something that's been bothering me for a while. The floor step wasn't square with the roof, and that was before I started cutting.
Here the car is upside down. Yellow spirit level across the window frame, small one across middle of frame:
2019-05-05_03-45-13 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

 

Doorstep now parallel with window frame and floor:
2019-05-05_03-45-39 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

 

...and temporarily fastened into place:
2019-05-05_03-45-52 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

 

 

Tidy up the spot welds:
2019-05-05_03-46-04 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

 

 

And now to offer up the repair. The repair is folded square-cut, like a stair case, but the original is slightly curved in this area. So I clamped the profile together and then clamped and tech-screwed the repair edge to the existing. This way, when I weld it together I should get the profile right. I hope.

2019-05-05_03-46-33 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

 

Need to clean up the whole area and grind away the remains of the old valance. Then I'll clamp and screw it back together, and alternately use the grinder and 1mm cutting disc to slot and then weld as I go along.

 

Initial fit looks spot on for the corner repairs I did last week.

 

2019-05-05_03-46-57 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

[minimissions]

We definitely need that brew soon this build looks ace.

[minimikej]

A bit more work on this area over the weekend.

 

My phone had an 'episode' and I lost a load of pics.

 

But, as a strategy, the rear door step as described earlier wasn't a bad one but I cocked up the draw-bolt hole.

 

I removed the rear load bay support cross-members along with the side bits.

 

Offered up some new bits and clamped them together, not looking too bad.

 

Car right way up again:

2019-05-12_08-28-35 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

 

 

2019-05-12_08-28-50 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

 

 

Took the load floor cross-member off with the cutting disc...

2019-05-12_08-29-00 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

 

...exposing inside of repair.

2019-05-12_08-29-12 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

 

I won't tidy this up much, both sides are completely hidden from view.

 

2019-05-12_08-29-25 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

 

New bits offered up:
2019-05-12_08-29-41 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

[minimikej]

Repairing the rear load bed support crossmember:

2019-05-17_06-46-48 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

[minimikej]

Realised I wouldn't be able to refit the load support because of all the bracing, so moved on to the other rear corner. With that out the way I can feed the repaired load support through.

 

2019-05-18_01-33-23 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

 

Took ages to do this but I'm happy that it's the best I could have done with what I have available.

 

2019-05-18_01-33-43 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

 

2019-05-18_01-33-56 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

 

 

I also chopped out some more of the boot floor and welded the wheelarches fully.

[KTS]

looking good and progressing well !

[minimikej]

Sick of the sight of the boot area now, so I bit the bullet, re-attached the load cross-member to the screw-holes and brackets made earlier, re-measured, clamped and welded the sod in, plug-welded from underneath.

 

2019-05-19_07-53-34 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

 

A shot to keep my spirits up...

 

2019-05-19_07-53-53 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

 

 

2019-05-19_07-54-09 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

 

 

[minimissions]

Awesome progress there mike! and that little mk1 is looking sweet to

[minimikej]

Welded the n/s repair this morning..

2019-05-25_04-05-15 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

 

...and the lower o/s quarter panel repair. Still got to weld in the boot floor repair.

 

2019-05-25_04-05-40 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

[minimikej]

...and it's in.

 

2019-05-26_02-58-40 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

 

Used one of these to strip off the rest of the grot:

 

https://www.ebay.co....eQAAOSwEVtcAnCs

 

Quite effective things, but they're not cheap and they're easy to destroy if you catch them on an edge.

[KTS]

more good progress.  that must the rear-end underside pretty much done now ?

 

the 3M roloc stuff is pretty good for surface prep too. the only downside is they're designed primarily for use with rotary air tools

[minimikej]

more good progress.  that must the rear-end underside pretty much done now ?

 

Not far now. I've two little pieces to make up that attach to the wheel arch - pocket closing panels each side, a rust repair to the wheel well bung, the rear valance panels, and the subframe crossmember.

That's probably another weekend's work I reckon.

 

After that I want to get to the interior boot floor, clean it all up, and refit the front load support crossmember.

[minimikej]

Grabbed a couple of hours earlier, finished the patch sections at last:

 

2019-05-29_05-41-23 by Mike Jackson, on Flickr

 

 

Think I'll still have to cut a band out of the wheel well though and replace with new steel, where the subframe cross member attaches to it, looking very pitted.

[minimissions]

This is looking spot on Mike awesome progress.. I need to catch you up.