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 Admin Posts: 1576    Location: Burnley, Lancs | Well this is how I leave it for this weekend, would have done a bit more but the kerosene for the heater ran out so the place got very cold very quickly. Pictures...   | ||
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Admin Posts: 1576 Location: Burnley, Lancs | This rotten bastard in the Metro's alter ego, the car and wheel arch repairs have gone on the back burner briefly while my time is spent sort other peoples hagard ass cars, however I shall continue in the next week or so. I did take a chance to check out the rust situation on the drivers side of the car tho.............. The drivers sill is as rotten as the passenger side, curse you sunroof...............  Holey   I've bought all the new steel I need to sort the sills and arches, just need to get on with it! | ||
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 Border Crosser Posts: 3232   Location: Carmarthenshire, Wales | Good job you can weld. Thought my arch was bad, as somone kept reminding me about it. Seems it's about time I remind that same person about his  | ||
| Pietaster |
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Admin Posts: 1576 Location: Burnley, Lancs | Spent a little time Sunday continuing with this arch repair, with a bit of luck should get the outer arch welded on this Sunday!   | ||
| Pietaster |
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Admin Posts: 1576 Location: Burnley, Lancs | This is somewhere near finished now, I've had a rethink with the inner arch but I'll explain better later.   | ||
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 Elite Veteran Posts: 848 Location: Blackburn | Few pics of the outer arch welded on, this is without filler and just a quick coat of primer.   | ||
| Pietaster |
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Admin Posts: 1576 Location: Burnley, Lancs | Update time. Been having a weld-a-thon on the N/S inner/outer sill and floor, basically cut out anything thats rotten and weld in clean steel. Pictures..... Plating up of the usual rust areas   These holes have been created by the stiffener under the floor, I've drilled out the welds and removed the stiffener so I can repair in on the bench top then weld in back in. Nearly drilled through the hydrospaz pipe too      These 0.8mm steel angles are available from Magnum panels and are around £5 for a 2 metre length. Invaluable when it comes to sorting rotten sills.  The small one is the perfect size for the length of angle steel that joins the floor to the outer sill on a Metro.   Just the outer sill to weld on tomorrow now.  The pile of rotten shit I've cut out so far.  Oh, and one more of the Metro looking posh under its cover.  | ||
| Pietaster |
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Admin Posts: 1576 Location: Burnley, Lancs | Outer sill welded.  Just gotta dress the plug welding now so it looks like this.  I've also folded over the leftover flange on the bottom edge of the sill, I'll seal this to keep the water out.  Also gotta sort out the rusted subframe mount.  | ||
| roysheen |
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 Regular Posts: 116 Location: cwmbran ,wales | wow thats got more rot than my mk 1  bet u had some fun doing that lot ???? but it looks 100% better tho thumb up dude | ||
| Pietaster |
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| Pietaster |
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Admin Posts: 1576 Location: Burnley, Lancs | Update time. Huge amount of welding done and still more to do but this is finally getting there. Can't be arsed to explain what's going on in each picture but I'm sure you'll get an idea.       Donor car      Bit of box section to ensure the swags on the new panel follows the rest of the sill    Welded  More to come later. | ||
| Pietaster |
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Admin Posts: 1576 Location: Burnley, Lancs | Update. Nearing the end of the epic weldathon on this car, getting bored of it now! Pictures:         More to come over the weekend. | ||
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 Fish freak! MP Admin Posts: 14989  Location: Birmingham | |||
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 purple_metty Posts: 2165 Location: leicsestershire | |||
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Border Crosser Posts: 3232 Location: Carmarthenshire, Wales | |||
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| Pietaster |
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Admin Posts: 1576 Location: Burnley, Lancs | Had a victory beer tonight having finally completed the last major welding task, just little bits and pieces to do now before I think about paint.        | ||
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 Transport Guru MP Moderator Posts: 4947 Location: Bromley, Kent | Great solid work. Good to see hefty effort put in for Metros!  | ||
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