Flaming Car

Bug Spray

Just a quick update today and a couple of photos. I spent all day Saturday grinding away at the rear passenger side cross member and rear reinforcement area. One of Paul's neighbours came over a presented me with a pack of 5 metal grinding discs which are most appreciated with the amount of grinding et to come. On Saturday I also welded in the new reinforcement panel which was pretty straight forward.

Reinforcement Panel Welded In

Tonight I did a little more grinding to the hole in the boot at the rear cross member and began to weld this hole up. I decided not to buy the panel for this but carefully plate it instead. all the over laps will be welded both sides one this is complete. its not the most Ideal be a lot better than it was. While on the out side I cleaned up the rear arch bolt line which need some cleaning up. in the Ideal world it would have a new rear quarter but to complicated for me and the time I have. There is a still a bit more cleaning up to do but the wire spool ran out and couldn't be bothered changing it so I'll restart tomorrow night. Also I'm going through Gas like nothing else, I think maybe I should have Invested in a large bottle.

Filling The Hole

I did originally want this complete by Blackpool Breeze but due to cash flow I've realised that It won't be back on the road for at least 12 months. Although it is frustrating not been able to driver her, I know that the extra time means a can take longer on each part and make sure it is done properly.

Black Bogies!

Its been nearly two weeks since my last post. Not a loads of progress but got to a bit of a mile stone. Last week was hard, I was having one of those weeks where I felt I was getting no where to felt a bit demotivated. Also had a busy week at work and was working late so din't really get on it.

I decided a needed at least one weekend day on it so I spent this afternoon on it. I managed to get the second floor pan half in which felt great but I knew I wasn't out of the woods with a long way to go. After a walk with to Tesco with Paul and a pot noodle tea I get the rear inner arch reinforcement panel out and its not pretty! The problem is plates welded over rot, and behind the reinforcement plate I began to cut out more and more. I began to struggle with this because last week my grind flex finally broke and had bare live wires sticking out so for now I'm using a battery powered grinder, problem is I go trough 3 batteries before 1 is charged ready to use again.

So as I waited for the battery to charge I decided it was time to go home and have a think about how to plate up  the arch.

Exploding Cutting Discs

No Floors!

Last week was eventful, other than the exploding cutting disc, I got a bit down ready for the new floors. The left floor pan arrived and was completely different from the right one even though both were supposed to be for years after 72. I thought I could just put it in but this would cause problems when it comes to fabricating the seat mounts so I decided to order a matching one from the same supplier.

Seat mount removed

First thing with these floor pans was to remove the seat mounts and rear cross members by drilling out the spot welds, this left some hole which I had to patch up with weld. once that was done for both sides I cut out the left floor pan which was just as much a mess as the right although the heater channel bottom plate is in pretty good condition.

Holes patch up

On the left side the was a patch in the cross member, I cut this off and discovered a bit hole of rotted metal, this one is going to be complicated to sort out because I will need to cut into the inner arch reinforcement panel.

So tonight I finished preparing the right floor pan and after some messing with the gasket managed to get it in and put a few tack welds down. This should be full welded in be the end of the week.

Floor in!

Bit of a mess