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#16 robbur

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Posted 10 April 2020 - 09:01 AM

Thanks JohnR

 

A little more progress with cutting out rust in preparation to fitting the offside floor.

 

The floor looks like its going to fit okay when all the surrounding area is repaired.

 

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I needed to fit the heal board repair panel, which meant lining up the rear sub-frame bolts. On the near side mounting only the top hole next to the boot floor had a nut in it, the other one had come away with the rotten bodywork. I made a template by drilling through the sub-frame mounting brackets which were still on the removed sub-frame. To get the angle to fit against the boot floor I had to had to cut a rebate out of the centre of the angle.

 

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A lot of trial fitting of the repair panel and floor, everything eventually lined up nicely. Whilst I was working in that area I cut out some of the rusty areas of the boot floor / seat pan, that would be difficult get to once the floor was fitted.

 

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#17 Bdshim

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Posted 10 April 2020 - 03:00 PM

Nice work , nice to see it being restored

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Posted 22 April 2020 - 02:03 PM

A small update, the floor is now cut to size and held in place with but clamps and tek-screws

 

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Posted 22 April 2020 - 06:32 PM

Looking good ready for lengthy welding session.Steve..

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Posted 02 May 2020 - 07:17 PM

In between other work this has this had dragged on a little, but at least the floor is now ready. I decided to go belt and braces with rust prevention, taking the surrounding surfaces back to clean metal and then treating them with Firtan before etch priming and adding a layer of top coat to all areas that would be hidden once the floor was welded.

 

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#21 blacktulip

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Posted 03 May 2020 - 09:08 AM

Nice work. Just goes to show the effort needed to do a good job!

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Posted 08 May 2020 - 10:13 AM

The floor is now welded to the gearbox tunnel, heal board, cross member and companion box. A new repair plate has been fabricated and installed to join the floor to the toe board. There is quite a large angled overlap between the floor and toe board that was originally double row spot welded, I imagine it was to increase the rigidity in this area, so making sure the repair has the same strength.

 

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Posted 10 May 2020 - 02:09 PM

With the toe board repair plate welded, including the support plate on the inside, the sub-frame holes template I made earlier, was refitted and the mounting holes drilled. A bit more cleaning up of the welds followed by treating any exposed metal with Firtan and then coating with etch primer and I am about done with the first floor panel. My attention is going to move on to the rear wing, door step and hinge post next.

 

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Posted 10 May 2020 - 03:43 PM

Great work coming on well




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