The N/S front wheel tub needed a fair bit of work but it was very salvageable.
First up I made a new seat mount as the old one was toast:
Then the Schofield’s seat belt mount repair went in:
A fair bit of the tub needed cutting out to repair it properly:
Then spend hours making up a well fitting repair complete with pressings:
And all welded up and painted. Good as new!
Sourced a genuine VW toughened windscreen and had another go at fitting with Max helping this time. Got it fitting near perfect, but the corners will need a bit of sealant to pull it tight against the metal.
Door skins and frames epoxy mastic’d. All worth it in the end!
Bulge section of the a pillars repaired today. Bare metalled and zinc primed the inside of the inner valance. Epoxy mastic on it all tomorrow morning including the front and def panel and I’m just about there with the front end.
Bulge section of the a pillars repaired today. Bare metalled and zinc primed the inside of the inner valance. Epoxy mastic on it all tomorrow morning including the front and def panel and I’m just about there with the front end.
Another repair to the front end (welds need dressing yet), and started shaping up the next piece (the rusty template in the background). This panel is starting to look a bit more solid now!
More fabrication and welding today. Replicated the pressing where the chassis rail sits too! All of these sections are oversized so I can trim down once they’re all done.
A good Sunday evening job giving the dash instruments a clean up.
I took a break from the middle sill today as it was getting me down.
Rust treated and zinc primed the underside of the door threshold piece (centre section left bare so I can get some etchweld on it instead):
And made a first pass of the welding on the O/S rear tub repair (this side is in pretty good nick):
Having cut away the rot there isn’t a huge amount left on the original middle sill. I’ve managed to keep the curved bit which the new panel doesn’t have so hopefully I’ll be able to make this work (I have to really as I’m not going to find another original middle sill anytime soon).
You can see the curved bit better in the below image (Annoyingly I had to drill out the spot welds on the sill too as I couldn’t drill them out accurately enough through the threshold piece. arg. More work).
My plan is to cut the new middle sill down and then weld it to the old so it looks something like this:
The curved bit is the challenging bit and will need a lot of fiddling and measuring to get right. Hoping to crack on with this tomorrow night.
