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[1984mini25]

or all the weldable metal has aready been chopped off.

[Bean]

Eh?

[England_expects]

Me- Genius I WISH !!!!!!!!!
If you're sticking with the MPI better get the gearbox sorted...........I'll get me toolbox!!!!

can you put a double thick mega hardened layshaft in there the way she gets though em?

GOOD IDEA PIKEY!!!!!!................what ME??.......Pick on Bean ......NEVER..........(HeHeHe)..........

[Bean]

[England_expects]

Cheer up Bean or I'll come and visit you !!!!!!!!!

[Bean]

[Bean]

Today's been a great day so far!

Bought the world's most expensive spot weld drill bit & ran out of gas in those stupid little bottles, just as I had set everything up.

Gah!


Oh well - At least I have my drill bit - I'm off to see Reggie after I've scoffed some potato salad

[Bean]

Do you ever have those days where you just should have stayed in bed?

Got over to Reggie and started to dismantle the front end.

Managed to remove the passenger side A-Panel first, behind which, I found some nasty rust to the bottom of the hinge panel.

I then started to drill out the spot welds on the wings. For some reason (I can't remember now!) I swapped to the driver's side to do first. I think it was due to the fact that the spot welds were much more obvious on this side.

Whilst drilling them out - I realised just how much bodge has been put on Reggie - He has so much filler on his general bodywork, where there really is no need to be any filler at all! Everything I touch, just chips off in big chunks in my hand!

Anyway - Eventually got all the welds drilled out and got the driver's side wing off. I've not got the A-Panel off on that side yet, as it started to get dark.


Unfortunately, I found rot along the scuttle lip (where it meets the wing) and the part of the inner wing that I was worried about has increased from about 6cm to about 15cm - It's just rotten along the gutter lip. Really not sure what to do here yet.

I also found a large amount of filler shoved in both A-Panels, at the top, where the hinge panel attaches (Er - Or is supposed to be attached!)


I do have some photos, but they're on my phone - I will upload them later.

I was going to quickly put the inspection light on, to get a couple of detailed ones, but I managed to knock that off the shelf and smash the tube inside. So I thought I'd have a quick sweep up before I left - But as I was sweeping, the head came off my broom.

Marvellouuuus.



Still - Potato salad was nice.

[carboy001]

Well.... at least the potato salad nice

[nightflier]

Heh. I think you're doing very well, bay-be! On the the bodywork that is. Well, and the potato salad too, I guess

Unlucky about the bodge, but it's best to find it now, and get rid of it during the revamp than have it play havoc with your new paint job

Thats the hole (you see what I did there?) idea of poking rusty bits with large screwdrivers Just ask E-E for a demonstration next time he's down - or rather, don't! I remember what happened the last time he did that, lol

Get those photos up anyhoo, young lady - we want Reggie porn!

Edited by nightflier, 18 September 2010 - 09:17 PM.

[1984mini25]

Do you ever have those days where you just should have stayed in bed?

yep, normaly most days ending in a y

[Bean]

Ok - I'll go sort the photos!

Karl - Cheer up!! There's always "Tomorrow"

[Bean]

[1984mini25]

Don’t look too bad if the surrounding metal is sound.

Just the scuttle end repair and a new section welded into to the lip for the a panel to fold round.

[pikey7]

blimey, the way you were talking i thought the shell was about to fall apart!

that's much better than most! (although it shouldn't have gone after being "restored")

couple of bits of tin and thats sorted! Even the scuttle is plateable(if it hasn't spread around the corner radius :s ) and even if it has, you can get scuttle end repairs... take a bit of fettling, but they work ok.

i'd be more worried about how it's taken you an afternoon to remove a wing! At this rate you may be done by the show season 2012