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[087dave]

HI all welcome to project auto YA baby YA

i brought this 75 auto on monday.It has 34000 miles so ehgine and box are on the ball Its was first brought in the uk
at a garage in birmingham called Evans

It was 150 miles away in wexford and drove it home i know alot of you dont like a auto box but with that much
documented miles i could nt leave it

The first thing i did was change the drums to discs ...braking was poor

Like all minis it has rust and on the R/H side someone in the past fited a oversill






now th rust





Dam oversill


Just waiting on panels
Thanks for looking

[myredmini]

Nice mini!! Love the seats

[dasupersprint]

You did the drum to disc conversion? Was it a possible job?

[087dave]

Hi ya very possible just remove the shaft take the 10" wheel cv joint off and put on 12" cv joint

[sonikk4]

That's not a bad looking wee beastie Dave. I sent you that colour chart,

[087dave]

AS ever neil thanks you are must helpfull

just done a small bit today i took out the drivers seat rear seats i checked the rear pocket and more rust holes
over some one fitting an oversill, the other side has a narrow sill and is very good nic


Also had a look at the air vent behind the dash and someone has done a bad job, just plated over the panel and never threated it
bloody crap


Moving along
Anyway thanks for looking

[087dave]

Got back to the auto today and started at the back ,owers in the past tryed to repair the pockets
so out came the grinder and started to cut


started with a small repair



new steel in

Then the pocket panel


Then lastly the repaired the plate that goes on the the pocket panel


hopefully at it again monday to start on the floor
i think oversill should nt be sold all of the drivers floor in a bad way thanks to them

Thanks for looking

[scotty_1987]

good work there dave looks to be a nice original car man !! whereabouts in ireland are you?!

[087dave]

Hi scotty Thanks , i am in the deep south ,cork

[087dave]

Hi all, more work done today i had to cut out the back of the floor to the crossmember because of rust
i had priced a half floor which was cheap but the p+p to ireland was £32 so i jack in that plan
and brought a sheet of steel and fab my own panel

So heres the panel in place

not bad for my first i think




Then it was on to the full length bottom panel
a small bit of messing around but it went in ok
Tacked in


seam and spot welded


moving along hopefully move to the rear subframe mounting plate and boot coner floor monday

Any comments welcome cherrs Dave

[scotty_1987]

Keep ploughing on there haha "the deep south cork" you say ah I'll have to keep my eyes peeled for you if I'm evr down that way!!

Nathan

Edited by scotty_1987, 06 October 2012 - 02:02 AM.

[087dave]

More work done today , i started on the rear R.H subframe mount i didnt get a full geniune one for this project
as i am doing it on a budget
it was a bad fit to start with , so i used a bare rear subframe to line it all up and there was a gap between the panel
and the lower end of the quarter panel
i also welded the nuts to the plate incase they decided to come loose

so welded in a plate checked that it all lined up spot welded and seamed in place



So after that i cut out the R/H side of the boot floor again i am going to be using patten coner panel hopefully put it in tomorrow

,while i was there ,i noticed some rust bubbles


Then i cut them out made a bottom piece and welded it in


Moving along , any comments welcome good, bad or other wise
Dave

[087dave]

Hi got some more work done today on the auto the boot floor coner and also the upper part of the wheel arch




Moving along
cherrs for looking

[087dave]

Hi all got some more done today on the auto first was the drivers floor ,i cut it out during the week
someone had plated it in the past and i guess never painted over it


so then welded in a new cut off


Then i moved on to the fitch panel and again it was plated over


so now i have the fitch in place


Thanks for looking
Dave

[087dave]

Hi all went out today to do a bit and i ran out of g
so i decided to de bumper the front by removing the lip by drilling out the spot welds




while there i noticed some bubbling on the wings
there is some pitted steel


should i cut this out and weld in a new plate??

cherrs for looking
Any advise would be great