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Long side got more drilling, sill hanging on till the bitter end, is it the law that you must must miss at least one spot weld

And the long side finally let go, just needs tidying, new inner sill fabbing then the new panel can be offered up!!

All quiet in the workshop today, no Mig wirring no tig buzzing a man at peace with his gas welding,, but this is always followed by the thrashing of panel beating hammers on metal!!!
Bye Bye nasty retro fitted indicators


Old stock long panel down to bare metal

Then painted


Offered up, good fit

Quite like the rusty finish

Looking good

love to see things coming together well


Nice to see an action shot with the grinder .... It always pulls a great photo

well done and keep on going dude


Mark

Wow you are making super fast progress mate, nice work!! What kind of look are you aiming for? Stock, slammed, etc??

markp wrote:Looking good

love to see things coming together well


Nice to see an action shot with the grinder .... It always pulls a great photo

well done and keep on going dude


Mark

Will do mate, got the plasma cutter shot coming up!!!!

wejjy wrote:Wow you are making super fast progress mate, nice work!! What kind of look are you aiming for? Stock, slammed, etc??

stock as things go at the moment, was going to build a 1600 single port that looks sort of vintage, I have a 1200 to go with it as well though!

In the words of Stalin "sometimes to create you must destry!"
Due to drilling the spot welds I took out er ribs so they can be repaired on the bench


Was easier to fab the top rib as it was quicker than welding the old un

N/S floor needed patching, in view of the pitting as well decided to replace the half
Sardine tin method

Sill Plasma'd out

Pillars needed bottom repairs fabricating so we decided it would be better to remove them and do it on the bench, gives good access to sill and floor as an added benefit

Door gap adjusted before the long side is refitted hopefully tomorrow!

Long sill and the drivers side floor half in today

Gave engine a bit of attention, hopefully tin and manifold will be pained in the morning

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Back on the saddle after a bit of a break

Both sides done welding wise, back now looking good as well

Time to move to the front, I have been looking foreword to this, front cleared out and floor removed



Hinge screws seized so drilled and re-tapped


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No pattern to the spot welds holding the cab floor in, 12 one side 21 the other!

Began filling the void at the front today, I had a prototype panel, the floor under the tool chest fromSchofields. Turned out that it was very much in the prototype stage and as the panel is not available anywhere else had to make a it from scratch. A big thank you to the bloke from Wolverhampton who let me have a good look around his 57 panel at the Diva Show at the weekend, though I nearly snapped his wiper arm with me hat peak!!!!!
He did say that he does get on this forum from time to time.

Panel marked out


Swaged and cut out


Fitted with new tool chest


From below


front looking a bit fuller!

Cab floor and dog legs on Wednesday!!

Great job! You don't hang about do you? When do you eat? every two days I reckon

BJ1 wrote:Great job! You don't hang about do you? When do you eat? every two days I reckon

Living on drink alone,

Floor in today but no dog legs as the detail around the gear and handbrake leavers were difficult! A bit of fettling of the 59> floor needs a bit of modding
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BJ1 wrote:Great job! You don't hang about do you? When do you eat? every two days I reckon

To be fair mate due to the chemical dip and E-coat it is a lot easier as there is no rust to deal with so it takes a lot less time.

Do you think they will notice???

Wheels needed to get her mobile now the underside is somewhere near

That difficult detail sorted

The early floors gear and brake leavers are much further back than the later floors, as you can see the pressings in the floor lean the levers away from each othe


Work can start on the dog legs



Door gap took loads of jiggery poker!!!
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