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[CityEPete]

Been a bit busy!

Edited by CityEPete, 19 March 2017 - 06:38 PM.

[CityEPete]

I've been sorting this today, the rest of the frame is sound, I think it's where the paint has chipped off from people jacking it up. I was changing the rear knuckles and I've rust converted and painted the frame,I'll coat it in waxoyl when the weather warms up.
Cut out the whole end section and butt/puddle welded a piece in after rust treating and weld thru priming everything. Can't see the mot man failing that?

[CityEPete]

I'm doing a few jobs, few touchups, genuine new knuckles and cones all round, few polybushes going in, oil, filters, plugs etc etc, good tcut polish and wax.

[CityEPete]

This little corner of rot was annoying me

[CityEPete]

Bit of welding,filling, sanding,painting and laquering got me to here

Edited by CityEPete, 21 March 2018 - 08:33 PM.

[CityEPete]

Cleaned all the previous over spray off anything in the boot, new light seals,filler neck gasket, reg plate gasket, new fog lamp bracket, wiring loom cleaned up, everything polished up. New genuine knuckles,cones and boge shocks on the rear, inner arches washed out, underneath painted, subframe rust treated and two coats of chassis black.


New arches and gutter trim to go on when the rest of the car is done.

[wingnut]

Looking good

[CityEPete]

[CityEPete]

Had a look behind the plates welded on the sills!


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It was a mess with the old rotten sill inside, Ended up cutting the outer sill off to sort the inner sill and floor out.

Edited by CityEPete, 09 April 2018 - 07:51 PM.

[CityEPete]

Cleaned up, weld thru primed and home made repair panel made.


Tech screwed in place before welding.

Edited by CityEPete, 09 April 2018 - 07:55 PM.

[CityEPete]

Inner sorted and painted, outer on and a closing piece made to finish off.

[CityEPete]

Painted with wilkos own brand white smoothrite!

I suppose I better do the other side then......

[CityEPete]

It's had new cones, knuckles, ball joints, bushes, shocks, discs and pads all round now.

[Marco1972]

Nice car
I’m a fan of originality
Keep up the good work

Mark

[CityEPete]

Thanks Mark, I am slowly getting it totally standard and as tidy as possible, one day it will go to Ben_O for a full concours rebuild! I was hoping to hold off on the sills but the covered over flutes was rotting the floor as you can see in the pics, the rest near the bins and rear subframe is thankfully good so it will be getting a gallon of waxoyl inside them too when the weather warms up.

 

I have 4 new black arches to fit along with gutter trim and some dealer stickers etc, got a new front plate in the big pre 2001 font as the modern one just looked wrong.

 

4 brand new wheel trims would finish it off a treat but I just can't get them, the Cooper wheels would have been an option on a Mayfair of this age so I might get a set refurbed to as new and fit them at some point but I do like the basic original look.