307 replies to this topic

[lindy119@school]

Noice!! Looking gooood......Keep up the good work, gotta fight back against the rust!!

[Scallywag630]

Nice bit of welding. Looks like a huge job and good to see another mini saved from the tin worm.

[leadly]

Brilliant effort so far matey, keep the updates comming!!

[davej]

Cheers for the comments, much appreciated

Well done a bit more, just cutting out the old rust back to the new floor pan we put in



All the crusty stuff I`ve cut out in the past couple of days



Thanks for looking

Dave

[danie garry]

thats top notch work there, keep it up

[davej]

A bit of progress today as I am now off work now until tuesday

Got the nut for the seat belt off the old inner sill and welded it to a plate and then welded the plate the the new inner sill. I managed to weld the inner sill piece in, seam welded the inside and ground the welds down a bit. I`ll finish it off tomorrow





Some ebay purchases this week, set of wiper and indicator stalks and a gear knob



Aiming to finish the inner sill off tomorrow and then its wheel arch and rear quarter panel.

Dave

[davej]

I got the rest of the inner sill in today, getting there slowly



Thanks for looking

Dave

[davej]

A little bit of progress, got a piece in across the bottom of the sill to tidy it all up:



Front bit:



Ill finish the welding and grind the welds back tomorrow and then its on to the rear arch and quarter panel.

Had fun at Himley Hall the other weekend and bought a few bits:





Dave

[miniallsort]

nice mate looks good

[Bean]

Hey Dave!

Well done on the Mini - It's looking great!!

[davej]

nice mate looks good

Cheers mate.

Hey Bean

Nora is looking great as well Gives you time to get Reggie all sorted now.

[davej]

Managed to finish welding the sill pieces in yesterday and today I went from this:



to this:



and then to this:



I`ve now got arduous task of trying to split all the seams and the welds from the arch to the brackets

Dave

[davej]

I have now welded the new wheel arch in, it was given to me by a friend of my dads who had it lying around from years ago, thats why i rubbed the surface rust off it and I have now repainted:



I have also put a patch underneath:

[vaughn1]

looking good mate, i have to replace the quarters and the inner arches on mine, did you test fit everything before you welded the arch and the filler plate in?

[davej]

Thanks

Yeah I got the arch pretty much where it wanted to be then clamped it along the bottom flange and clamped the filler plate. Once I was happy with them two I tried the quarter panel on top, that seem to fit pretty well too.

Another thing is I measured the top of the suspension turret to the parcel shelf and from the top of the turret to the boot floor, checked these with the other wheel arch to make sure they were both the same.

Dave