Edited October 15, 20179 yr by LittleRedSpirit

No filler needed on the roof, just rubbed out the guide.

The best product for sanding the car after the speedfile.

The Fabricated pieces all blacksmithed into shape and clearanced around the tail panel reinforcing.

Outside view:

Firewall re-enforcing at the booster/pedal mount. Want the stiffest pedal feel.

Close up

Edited October 15, 20179 yr by LittleRedSpirit

Went back out last night and removed the fuel tank, plugged the hose and clamped em shut. I cleaned the tank, I will be painting it as it was getting a tiny bit of surface rust on the lower side. Will also look at installing my new carter lift pump so I don't have to listen to the facet pump ticking away.

 

Also got the roof primed it came up great.

 

Looks like I can begin welding this weekend, so hopefully its not too long before the car is going back together.

 

Also found about a litre of 147 original silver metallic paint, and I have plenty of clear so I will at least be able to do inside the shuts, roof and doors with it.

Edited October 15, 20179 yr by LittleRedSpirit

Will be welding today, I had another go at rust in the rear ahead of the welding yesterday. I tidied up the seam, ground down any remaining spot welds, packed the seam open and chipped all the rust out that was converted the other day, then I had another go with the rust converter and made some final adjustments o the steel piece that fits in so its all as tight and tidy as possible. I decided to get the best contact for welding the piece I would rivet it in place, so I drilled 7 or 8 rivets through it and pulled the two pieces of metal tightly together. I made a couple of tweaks to the floor patch and its riveted in too now.

 

I got the grinder out and cleaned up the fuel tank strap holders as they still had junk metal attached to them.

 

Hoping to get the rear end welded up today, and prepared and primed if my wife can stop bothering me for long enough to let me accomplish anything.

 

I also rubbed off the guide coat all around the hatch, and painted the tank from spare paints I had lying around, and now its silver underneath, black on top and has a gold filler, lol.

Great progress matt. you are certainly in the deep end there! Body work is paintful, but very rewarding.

Yes very paintful. :yes: I've been welding.

Need to do a bit more under the rear floor to reinforce the floor join but got it spotted back together for the most part.

Repaired a lot of holes in the floor in different spots. Reinforced one weak looking spot where the fuel tank strap attached to the floor.

The tunnel had a crack at the handbrake so i welded that up too.

Was a little hole in the a pillar where it meets the vent box. Patched it up too.

Still to weld rear 1/4 panels.

Edited October 15, 20179 yr by LittleRedSpirit

Rear end is all done, but Ive run out of gas. Ill have to sort that out somehow. Motherʞ©$ɟer christmas eve.

Edited October 15, 20179 yr by LittleRedSpirit

Have now welded up the rear arches and most of the floor, barring the drivers foot well. Still to do, above the wind screen too. Some detailing required to complete but working out good.

Made a custom sanding block for the rear seam. Got some more black for another guide coat. half stripped the front gaurds, ready for a bit of prep.

 

Edited October 15, 20179 yr by LittleRedSpirit

So today I made a plate to seal up the rusty area around the drivers floor, and another little one at the side where the rust also occurred.

Got into welding up the little imperfections I could see and after a while it was all solid.

Fixed some old screw holes and also some pinholes in the old welding that someone has done in the drivers floor, and then ground back some old resin and found more defects, and just did all the little 5 minute jobs.

All that remains is to grind her back and double check for pinholes, then to weld the screen opening, and the two small spots under the boot seal that had rust starting.

Getting there.

Got a random zenki trueno mudflap, Ill be using it until I can swap someone for a zenki levin type.

 

Edited October 15, 20179 yr by LittleRedSpirit

Good for another 40years!

 

Its a shame it took another decade to make car bodies that are so rustproof. You just don't see rusty cars in the newer stuff at the wreckers.

Yeah and yet still not good enough for coastal life.

 

I fabricated the patches for the boot seal,

 

Had to notch the new seam to clear the bumper.

 

Tidied the floor. Made a 20mm drain hole.

You're getting quite handy with that welder. Nice work.