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[Tupers]

I've been cracking on and got the new section for the RH arch welded on and linnished down. 

 

I also got the LH arch sections made and welded in. 

 

 

Now that most of the rear is finished I've moved into the middle and started removing the LH floor pan. 

 

 

The seat crossmember needs work on one for the front faces so I drilled out its spot welds and removed it to repair out of the car and I'll refit it once both floors have been replaced. 

 

I drilled out the spot welds in the toe board with a regular drill bit as I'll use these holes to plug weld in new floor in latter. 

 

I also removed the subframe mounting gusset as it was a bit ropey and cleaned everything up. 

 

Here's a freshly made pair of strengtheners ready to be welded in latter on.   

 

After a bit of trimming and shaping the LH floor is nearly ready to go in it just need a few holes punching and some areas cleaning. 

 

[minimissions]

Nice work your cracking on fast with this! wish i had this space to work with.... Whats your finished plans with the car, standard or few mods?

[Tupers]

Nice work your cracking on fast with this! wish i had this space to work with.... Whats your finished plans with the car, standard or few mods?

 

Thanks, it's fairly straightforward stuff so it's not too hard to crack through.

 

The body is staying almond green but the roof is going gold as are the 4.5" Minilites I have for it. The suspension is going to be standard dry and the interior will be the original porcelain green.

I haven't decided on the engine yet. I'd like to go pre A+ 1275 with a 4 synchro remote box but I need to find one first. 

 

The toe board strengthener is welded on now with zinc182 on the underside to keep the solid in the future. 

 

For the best combination of strength and neatness I've joggled the edge of the new floor pan so it sits on top of the exhaust tunnel. The outside will be lap welded in shot runs and the edge on the inside is plug welded at 2" intervals. 

 

 

After a lot of jiggery pokery, moving clamps and shooting sparks the floor is in a looking lovely.  

 

 

The external joint came out really nicely and will now be linnished smooth like the rest of the repairs.

 

The internal joint will stay more of less as it is now but I'll run a bead of seam sealer over it before painting. 

[mk1leg]

Hi..Tuppers I'm sure you will make a great job as going by the Craford you done not so long ago..........and I woild keep it wet as that was how it was made....

[minimissions]

Nice work your cracking on fast with this! wish i had this space to work with.... Whats your finished plans with the car, standard or few mods?

 Thanks, it's fairly straightforward stuff so it's not too hard to crack through. The body is staying almond green but the roof is going gold as are the 4.5" Minilites I have for it. The suspension is going to be standard dry and the interior will be the original porcelain green.I haven't decided on the engine yet. I'd like to go pre A+ 1275 with a 4 synchro remote box but I need to find one first.  The toe board strengthener is welded on now with zinc182 on the underside to keep the solid in the future.  For the best combination of strength and neatness I've joggled the edge of the new floor pan so it sits on top of the exhaust tunnel. The outside will be lap welded in shot runs and the edge on the inside is plug welded at 2" intervals.   After a lot of jiggery pokery, moving clamps and shooting sparks the floor is in a looking lovely.    The external joint came out really nicely and will now be linnished smooth like the rest of the repairs. The internal joint will stay more of less as it is now but I'll run a bead of seam sealer over it before painting. 

Awesome sounds like it's going to be and awesome little car when it's done. And like the build gold roof is a little different but can see it really working :) top work wish my welding was a clean as yours it looks great :)

Will pm you about engine....

[Tupers]

Hi..Tuppers I'm sure you will make a great job as going by the Craford you done not so long ago..........and I woild keep it wet as that was how it was made....

We're actually doing another Crayford at the moment that's had even more done to it than the previous one. 

 

I did consider keeping it wet but the cost of a decent rear frame a few replacement displacers put me off. 

 

 

Awesome sounds like it's going to be and awesome little car when it's done. And like the build gold roof is a little different but can see it really working :) top work wish my welding was a clean as yours it looks great :)

Will pm you about engine....

 

I've seen a few almond green cars with gold Minilites and they looked awesome so I'm guessing adding more gold can only make it more awesomeer....

 

It seems like some weeks all I do is weld so I've had plenty of practise. 

[mk1leg]

 

Hi..Tuppers I'm sure you will make a great job as going by the Craford you done not so long ago..........and I woild keep it wet as that was how it was made....

We're actually doing another Crayford at the moment that's had even more done to it than the previous one. 

 

have you started a build thread on the new Crayford.....

[minimissions]

Nothing wrong with that mate hope that me getting into my car welding will make me better at it. Top work pal :)

[Tupers]

 

 

Hi..Tuppers I'm sure you will make a great job as going by the Craford you done not so long ago..........and I woild keep it wet as that was how it was made....

We're actually doing another Crayford at the moment that's had even more done to it than the previous one. 

 

 

have you started a build thread on the new Crayford.....

 

 

Yeah I've got one over on the MK1 forum. Clicky

[Tupers]

I've been on other things over the last few days but yesterday I eked out some time to move the shell and start on the drivers floor pan. 

 

The remainder of the floor came out fairly easing as time and rust had done most of the work for me. This side will take a little more work before the floor goes in as there are a few repairs needed on the exhaust tunnel. 

 

The toe boar dis also a little rough on this side. 

 

After drilling out the spot welds holding the remains of the floor and cleaning up the inside I marked out the area that will be replaced. 

 

Not much else for this week but I did make up the new section of toe board from 1.2MM plate. 

 

[Tupers]

I did the final trimming done on the toe board repair this afternoon and checked fthe fitment.

 

When I came to welding I clamped a piece of 30MM box across the toe board to maintain a level and then used that to line up the new section. 

 

Being such thick steel it welded really nicely and looks very tidy now it's linished down.

 

There was also a small repair needed inside the tunnel of the toe board so I made another repair section from 1.2MM sheet and got it welded in.

 

 

Again it linished down very nicely.

 

This side of the car certainly seems like the bad side as there was also a little collection of holes on the tunnel behind the seat crossmember. 

 

We keep a few scrap floor pans around just incase so I cut a section out and tacked it in. 

 

Yet more linishing and it's on to the next job. 

 

By far the worst part is the front of the exhaust tunnel which had been visited by the tin worms many times.

 

Fortunately another section from the scrap floor came to the rescue. Juts a little more work now and I can start on getting the floor back in. 

 

[minimissions]

Some awesome fabrication there making all these new little bits up for the floor nice work...

[Tupers]

It's been a bit busy again down here but I did mange to get the final rotten section of the tunnel removed yesterday.

 

I salvaged a replacement section once more and got it tacked in making sure I had enough of a lip on the edge for the joggle on the new floor. 

 

A bit of linishing and DAing latter and it's all shinny and smooth. 

 

With the tunnel sorted I span the shell around and got onto test fitting the drivers floor pan. 

 

 

This side has been cut slightly differently to the passengers because of the tunnel bulge but is still joggled.

 

Lots of welding later and it's in for good. It does look nice without a big hole in it. 

 

 

After so much welding I decided I'd had enough of working on the floor switched to the rain gutter at the top of the rear panel.

The gutter was peppered with rust right the way across so I decided to replace the whole width. 

 

I have the top section from a Heritage rear panel to use but it has the wider window aperture so I marked out my cut lines starting on the top of the window rather than the side.  

 

Everything's chopped out now so hopefully it should be a simple case of cutting down the new section and welding it in tomorrow.

[minimissions]

Looking good like you no big hole anymore lol can't wait until that's the case with mine... Once again nice tidy work sir...

[Tupers]

So how about another update?

 

The rear panel section took a little more fiddling than I'd expected but it's now welded in, linished down and looking fancy. 

 

While working on the rear panel I noticed a bit of a hole next to one of the body seams. 

 

It was a quick piece to chop out with a body saw and the repair section just needed a little stretching on the seam to match the curve of the body. 

 

 

 

The body should be off the spit soon so I've been rattling around the edges doing all the pieces that'll be a pain to get at later.

Two such pieces were the drip rails which were fairly far gone. 

 

It didn't take a lot of work to remove either side as the rust had popped them off most of the way. 

 

Before I could continue with the drip rails I had to sort out a long section of rotten roof gutter. 

 

I put a gentle curve into the new section by knocking it over a piece of 8MM rod and then welded it in. 

 

One it was finished I ground the welds down and then ran a sanding block over to make sure it was straight. 

 

Although the drip rails aren't handed my new ones weren't curved at the end like the originals so I used my shrinker stretcher to add it as you can see on the left.  

 

 

It now tucks in nicely at the end. 

 

After popping a few holes, I plug welded them so that's one more job off the list. 

 

 

 

I also thought I'd better get all the welds linished down on the underside while they're still easy to get to. 

 

 

 

The final pieces to go onto the floor were the battery cable channel which is the original one that I've cleaned up and tabs for the battery and fuel lines. 

 

 

A simple bit of plug welding and linishing later and that's the outside done.