KE16V Barn Find

[Banjo]

Glad You are into it !  Hope is addictive, & not too despressing.  I'd really be concentrating on the structural bits first, as they are the most important, after all. Shame to do all the surface & visual pieces, & then find later on, that there is a structural section, beyond repair, & that all the visual; non structural clean up, was in vain.

A simple rotisserie would be good, so it is easy on your back. No fun working upside down, when You get to the underfloor area.

Metal Rotisserie

Wooden Rotisserie

Cheers

Banjo  

Edited 6 hours ago by Banjo

[mage0r]

Thanks Banjo, I have a few Rotisserie videos in my queue and I'll add those.

In this case I'm focusing on the bonnet for a few reasons.

1. They are in demand, so if my build goes nowhere they still have value.

2. The bonnet is in my garage but the rest of the car is 500km away.

The bonnet (and guard) are from Captain Kerolla, so their condition is not reflective of the rest of the vehicle.  I'm going to school on these parts, and I can get them up on the bench under my workshop heater.

John

[altezzaclub]

Get some Upol #2 weld-through primer in copper, we use it all the time on race car fabrication. Its a lot more expensive than the zinc, but they are rubbish to weld through, its just like welding galv pipe.

I'd use paint stripper to start with, get all the paint off as there will be little rust-worm trails under paint that look fine from the outside. We took the driver's-side top surfaces back like this, even if the paint looked OK for 99%, underneath were little rust trails heading off in all directions.  I figure it spent its life in a carport up against a wall on the passenger's side, so the drivers side was weathered.