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[Tupers]

The passenger side sill is now all welded up, linished down and zinced ready for schultz. 

 

I had to make a repair section for the end of the passenger scuttle end that required a bit of shrinking and stretching. Oddly the closing panel underneath was mint. 

 

 

The inner wing is also welded up and zinced. 

 

It took me a little while to get the wing lined up nicely but it's on now. 

 

Good parallel bonnet gap. 

 

Nice tight scuttle gap. 

 

The door gaps are nice and consistent as well, which is all ways a relief. 

 

I was a bit suspicious of the soft edges on the drivers step sill. Turns out it was full of filler!

 

 

 

[Ben_O]

Looking great there.

 

shame about that filler in the step but there you go. At least it was found and is being sorted properly!

 

Nice one

[Tupers]

Looking great there.

 

shame about that filler in the step but there you go. At least it was found and is being sorted properly!

 

Nice one

 

 

 

You're quite right, it would suck to paint it and then have it all fall out latter. 

 

 

Having a proper sheet metal folder has it's advantages especially when it comes to make new step sill sections. 

 

 

The O/S A panel lip had rusted away in places so I replaced the whole section with nice new panel. 

 

The new step section's looking nice now it's all ground down and zinced. 

 

For an unknown reason someone had decided to coat the O/S inner wing in underseal in the past. 

 

It looked awful so I attacked it with a wire wheel and took the panel down to bare metal. I also welded a few dodgy looking holes.

 

 

The engine bay was quite crusty so I took the wire wheel and DA to it as well and got ride of all the flakey edges.  

 

I've also been attacking the body with the DA and now have the whole body sanded and all the bare metal areas sprayed with etch primer. 

 

[Ben_O]

Looks spot on!

[minimissions]

Nice little collection you have there, liking the look of the red mini.. think you should keep that one and the clubby...

[SidneyandNad]

On the subject of collecting cars... 2 Land Rovers, An early Range Rover, An MGB with a triumph six in it, Caddy van, Transit van and the Mini. Only the defender has an MOT but is also dead!

[surfblue]

Got the Mini, Discovery, Tiguan, Er5 Kawasaki and a big caravan. Im just wondering how I could sneak in a Series Landrover without the mrs noticing 

[SidneyandNad]

Surfblue, there's always room for a Series 2 landy! I've had 3 and I'm 17 :) Loving the red mini work by the way

[Daviewonder]

I've got the 1275GT, a 106 GTI, 4 205 GTIs, a 406 Coupe and a Citroen Synergie. I've run out of room now though 

 

 

On a related note, if anyone has an 8 car garage going spare in the Chichester let me know 

[Tupers]

Got the Mini, Discovery, Tiguan, Er5 Kawasaki and a big caravan. Im just wondering how I could sneak in a Series Landrover without the mrs noticing 

 

I was offered a Series 1 last week, no room at the moment sadly. 

 

I seam sealed the joints in the front end today and started getting some 2k high build onto the body but I ran out. 

 

 

 

Seen as I can't get any primer until later in the week I degreased the engine, wire wheeled it down and masked up all the machined faces. 

 

It then received a few generous coats of MOWOG green and I stated bolting a few of the ancillaries back on including a new water pump and shinny new core plugs.

 

[mattprinn1997]

I got 33 classics here     

[Tupers]

I got 33 classics here     

 

Now that's quite a feat!

[Artful Dodger]

His dad does help quite considerably..;). Seeing as he is a specialistXD


But the rotter does have some cool austins I want that he won't give me..


All I have is my 120 brake clubman GT, 1968 cooper S mini7 and a 130hp 106 rallye:(. Why is life so unfair...;)

[Tupers]

I didn't touch this at all last week as I had the week off but I'm back on it now and covered in filler dust. 

 

The body is nice and straight now and just need and little bit of detail work before it gets another few coats of high build.  

 

 

The engine is mostly back together as well now, just waiting for a shinny engine bay to live in. 

 

[exuptoy]

Tupers, nice work dude! Did you have a thread for the Clubby on the Mig Welding UK forum?

 

I have my 96 Sprite, 73 Type 2 Camper (rotten and in progress), 07 T5 (currently being converted into a day van), 52 Bini Cooper S Works and K5 GSXR 1000.

Edited by exuptoy, 04 September 2014 - 08:36 AM.