Front tube bumper trial fitted and mounts tack welded to the front beam. I’ll weld them properly when I tear down the chassis next week.
Getting excited starting to see the baja elements on this build coming together.
Roof all finished today. Really happy with how this turned out. 🤗
Inside of the roof painted and welded in today.
Just need to grind the welds flush and knock the gutter lip over.
A surprising amount of work went into repairing this section!
Fabricating some sections to repair the roof on the N/S.
First up the section which sits inside the guttering, this needed a fair bit of work to get a nice fit.
Followed by a small repair piece for the window aperture which needed a few runs through the shrinker to get the right curve.
I just need to finish welding in the window repair tomorrow and give the inside of everything a coat of paint before I can weld the roof back on.
All of the O/S rear fender captive nuts needed replacing as a previous owner had simply drilled new holes through the old plates and fitted another nut.
3 down, 2 to go!
Some pretty tricky repairs today.
The gutter on a beetle has a slight curve to it so I borrowed a shrinker to form the correct profile.
And a small repair to the rear drip rail.
I’m just about done with the inner repairs this side now.
Further work on this corner repair.
One more patch repair on the quarter panel and I’ve welded in the pillar repair.
I should be able to get the gutter repair welded in tomorrow and the rest of the inner framework sorted.
It’s always nice when something turns up that you’re not expecting! I only ordered the front and rear tube bumpers on Monday expecting them to take weeks to get here as they were on back order. Here they are!
I’ve been furloughed from work for the next 4 weeks so time to get a jog on with this project! Hopefully I can get the rest of the welding finished and onto some of the baja conversion jobs.
I’ve made the repair pillar ready to weld in (the rusty mess on the right is all I had to go from!).
A few repairs to the rear quarter before I can weld in the pillar and start making up some guttering.
I’ll try and do a daily update on the project over the coming weeks.
Went digging into the N/S rear guttering. Ended up cutting a big chunk of the roof off to get access to the inside framework which had started to rust out. First job will be to make up a repair for the pillar.
