sills :) big post :)

Got the sills this morning :)

Bit better than the originals :)

Bitmore expensive than I hoped but less than the pattern alternatives we found and to be honest probably a better quality, zintec 1.2 mm :)

Not quite right on the closing panel so a quick modification needed..

Now sits nice all the way along..

Best get on with it then :)

Looks good..


I had to replace a small piece of door step, I left it till the sill was welded in place to keep the strength, finished pic above, this is how I did it :)

Managed to cut the drivers sill off, filler and rags :/




Got the interior sealed ready for passenger side refit tomorrow


Also dropped the fuel tank to find the leak, turns out it was some rather tired chemical metal


Which was covering some less than perfect welding

quiet day

Today was a quiet day but I did make a profile pattern to take to my steel supplier on tuesday to get the sills folded:)

I also fitted 2 strengthening ribs in the sills to hold up the step until the outer sill is fitted.

Pete came round and was trying to steal the wheels for his Scooby while I was drilling holes in his wings for some mirrors :)


I got Sams manifold into the press and straightened it up, near as I can tell it now has only about 1/2 mil twist which should be taken up in flex when bolted up. The pic just about shows the amount of bend I had to put in to get it to stay straight :/

I was also pleased to get my Triumph wings delivered by Mark, bought these off ebay a while back and the RR pony express has come good :)

more complcated pieces :/

Today was sill closing :)
What a pita it was too :)

It is difficult to show the complicated shape of the 3 seperate panels that make up the sill closing piece.

I also seam welded around the plates I did yesterday as it turn out to be a weak spot in the shell, might as well do it now while it is clean and in bits :)

Suspension strengthening :)

Hours spent on the Datsfun today.
The rear floor was looking a bit tired so I knew underneath the layers would be worse, I was right.
Chopped out the floor layer and the front of the rear seat area to get to the reinforcing panel.
That was then removed to get to the rear chassis leg end. After I cleaned it up I had to replace the end of it.

The reinforcing plate was put back and the front of the rear seat area followed.

Then the floor was laid, the corner of this area was guess work as there is nothing original to work on :/.
I can now replace the last piece of inner sill and rebuild the front of the inner arch ready for the outer sill.

From underneath shows the plug weld penetration.

Doors!!

I got the camera out today to show you the new doors :)


Now need to rebuild front wall to match :)

The Van of shite

I needed to move some stuff around so a van was needed and a friend at work was having trouble selling his Scrote so a silly offer later I had a van with 12mnth MOT :)
Today I got round to laying some stickers on it :)
Need to get the phone numbers and web addy on and all will be good :)


Also fitted new doors to the workshop today, picture fail :(, and a bit more on the Datsfun again a picture fail :(

Tomorrow I will do better :)

Today I got the front floor/inner arch, inner sill and outer sill behind wing sorted :)


Action shot :)