hey fellas,

 

just a little help on what to do here.

 

i own a ke70, and there is probably not one inch of body rust anywhere! which is great, although when i was changeing the radiator, i noticed on the right, bottom, bellow say the bottom orange indicator (or wateva it is) a huge amount of BAD rust.. wen i say bad i mean bad... like I'm almost 80% sure its structual rust, but i think it might be possible to fix it. rego runs out in november, so i have kinda til then to fix it all up.

 

the way i look at it, is, to fix it up ide have to take out all radiator, supports, bumper- basically the front of the car.. now i could grind it back and then manufacture or, from a donar car, re-weld back on the peice thats rooted.

 

what does everyone think? cus i love this car, I'm attached and i want to fix it up, but this is probably the only thing thats holding me back..

 

hope to hear good news...

 

 

p.s. wil post pics soon

it's only a 70, it's not rare at all, so you could always sell yours and aquire a better one easily

 

if you really want to fix yours up, i would buy a clean ke70 and chop chop weld weld and sell/wreck what's left

yeh, but i don't have room in the street mainly... plus I'm attached to this fine example of toyota art... its lovely curves..(if it has any???) and the colour of its eyes (hedlights r all cheesy heh) ... but room is the main problem.. plus people wil complain if i have not one, but 2 cars on the street that I'm working on..

 

pics shuld be up tonight..

 

holla!

ok here are the piccys

the first is of the front left wheel, and the rust(in the second pic) is to the left of the "hook" style thing that u can see in the first pic

 

this is the rust spot on the left and semi above of the "hook" thing

first

second

this next one is from the top, looking in between the radiator and the grill, towards the bottom right, in the corner

third

 

ok now these next 2 are like on the right, below the battery (should be able to work it out cus of where the radiator is)

 

forth

fith

 

can it recieve kemo?(grinder and welder eh eh eh )

 

yo!

woops the "first" pic is ment to be under the first comment...

 

yo

paint it matt black, forget about it :)

u really think so? hmm ill try and take some more pics, hopefully during the day, cus i couldnt see at night, and post them up. I'm pretty sure its not allowed on the road, but i have a good friend who passes it for rego. but i think its getting to the stage where if I'm in an accident and insurence finds out then I'm screwed.

 

wil post more pics.

ciao!

Get out the wire wheel, find out how bad it really is, rust convert whatever is there. It's like square sections, too easy. Just get some 1mm steel sheet or something, bend bend weld weld, easy.

hmmm ok.. it dusnt seem too bad then. ill try and get more pics in the daylight.

 

can the welding be dun with an arc weldeR? cus i have one of those.. anything else i shuld know? this wil prob be my first rust fix job, and it seems like its a semi major part of the car, so what else shuld i know? anyone else have rust in this same spot?

thanks

Fairly common area for rust, my KE35 had it, Haikal's KE36 wagon had it. Any sort of welder would do.

oh sweet!!

 

I'm all excited now.. maybe the ole' girl will last another yr of rego! woowoo!!

 

will tackle this at the end of next week.

 

when welding, what precautions do i take-for the cars sake.. disconnect batterey and thats it??

 

sweet

an arc welder isn't really meant to do thin steel like on car bodies. you need a mig or an oxy, otherwise you will just blow holes.

 

Doug (Felix) i posted from wrong window. she has IE, i use mozilla. i stuffed up.

Edited September 17, 200521 yr by Bec

I've seen people do wonders with an arc welder. My dad arc welds better than I can mig weld, including thin sheet. I think it all comes down to - can you weld thin sheet with it? No? Use something "simpler". In which case, a mig, oxy or tig is "easier" to weld thin sheet with. In fact I've been told the mig is the easiest of all, but that said I can't really weld anything consistantly at all, even with a mig...

Edited September 17, 200521 yr by demuire

from my experience with arc welding, your welding rods should be the same thickness as the metal you are working with.

oh k

well ill see what i can do. might try and tackle it this afternoon. ill probably remove the bumper and most of the front and try and get a better view and take sum pics. anything else i need to consider?

 

when i cut the rust back do i need the wire wheel, or can i use grindind.cutting discs?

 

yew!