ToasticlesAe82 Posted April 3, 2011 Report Share Posted April 3, 2011 Props mate, can't wait to see it with the panels back on all shiny :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbonboy Posted April 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2011 Props mate, can't wait to see it with the panels back on all shiny :D Cheers mate! Speaking of panels, I have to get some shots up of the front guards, passenger doors & the hatch I have sitting around in primer. These were done shortly after the interior was primered. Also have to get in touch with an old work colleague who has a sandblasting cabinet, I have a lot of bits I could use it for i.e door/bonnet/hatch hinges. The work to do seems endless, but with primer I can SEE progress! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbonboy Posted April 5, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 (edited) I have been stuck at home child-minding so I can't work on my car, but I can go out to my shed & have a crack at some welding practice! Here's some shots of my first attempts, I can at least see some improvement (albeit slowly). Am free again tomorrow night to work on it, thinking of tackling the rust along one side of the car at a time. But which to do first? :hmm: Edited April 11, 2011 by carbonboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbonboy Posted April 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Well the weekends come & gone so I'd better post up pics of my efforts. First of all I got down on the (concrete...really gotta remember to grab my old camping mats!!) floor & proceeded to straighten out the vertical seam that runs along the car underneath the doors. You know the one, where the head of the jack is supposed to slot onto but instead some tool bends the snot out of these both at the front & the rear? Good fun with a set of pliers, a steel bar & a hammer. After my bashing around... I then got stuck in with the rust converter on the drivers side first. My mates sheds roof has a bit of a gap above the door which allows rain to come on through, have been covering things up with sheets of plastic which have done okay but my reasoning is primer is better! Some before rust converter shots. I so should have stripped/primed it section by section to start with but hey, them's the breaks. It was at this point that the damn heavens decided to open. I'd just gotten it back to clean, shiny, grey steel AGAIN & rain is coming through the aforementioned gap! *sigh* Plastic sheets back on & go over to the passenger side & repeat the process. With rust. Without rust. These black spots recieved further wire brushing & another hit of rust converter, just to make damn sure its dead! As you can see, I knew how much I could get done over the weekend :laff: The damn gutters that have annoyed me for so long. The sanding begins... It is at this point on the saturday night that I hit the wall, was tired, sore & had had enough for the day, so off to bed it was! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbonboy Posted April 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 (edited) So on Sunday I dragged my arse back to the shed & decided that I had better get some damn primer on the drivers side, as if I had to remove rust from there one more time I was going to be pissed. Not quite neck a bottle of scotch & still be angry pissed, but close. :wink: Rust from the previous days rain... So after a bit of grinding, a bit of sanding & a lot of washing, the time for some primer arrived! First shot is just the areas I wanted an extra coat on, so hit them up first. A little bit on the passenger side I did, don't know why but it was bare metal so I figured why not. Drivers side primed! A little bog needed here. Am happy how this arch lip came up, needed a bit of bog work to get it nice & smooth after tapping out a dent or three. Overall a good weekend, happy enough with progress. Just gotta chug along during the week & see how things go. Edited April 11, 2011 by carbonboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
67Rolla-Ken Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Nice work as always :y: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbonboy Posted April 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 Nice work as always :y: Cheers man! I've got me some foam mats now, so hopefully my hips, back & shoulders will quit their painful protesting of my actions, well a little bit anyway. At work I'm either up in a roof-space or on my guts under a house half the time so usually already sore when I start on the car. I tried to work on it once the day after a particularly 'enthusiastic' game of inline hockey...I lasted about 15 seconds & called it quits :laff: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parrot Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 http://www.toymods.org.au/forums/showthread.php?66718-AE82-Twincam-rolling-shell You know you want another one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbonboy Posted April 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 Dammit! If I had the cash spare I'd take it as that crossmemeber would be handy & I could always use the spares. Aside from the that, if I were to have another Corolla come into my possession my housemate would have a few things to say about its storage location! :lolcry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbonboy Posted April 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 Well not a lot of progress made this week. :( I drilled out a snapped bolt under the radiator support area & cleaned up the thread before the TCCAV meeting on Tuesday night, nothing else. However I have been helping my mate moving $h1t out of the shed as my car is about to have some company. Its not going to be Toyota company so I'll discuss it no more, but you'll probably see it in future photos. :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbonboy Posted April 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 Here's some photos of our efforts, the other half of the shed was piled head high with old junk. This is a shed from a family of people who hoard stuff, however the force of having a project car that's theirs incoming overrode this & got him actually throwing things out! The space has been made, the car arrives tonight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parrot Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 You do know, if it's a Holden or Australian Ford, you will have to revoke your rollaclub membership..... Chrysler's are OK 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToasticlesAe82 Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 You do know, if it's a Holden or Australian Ford, you will have to revoke your rollaclub membership..... Chrysler's are OK http://www.rollaclub.com/board/topic/36465-boosted-ed-xr6/ gotta admit that's pretty smexy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RollaBus_4agze Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 your hatch is looking good champ :D nice to see yet another ae82 being done! and parrot, MoPars are the shit :D :D :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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