Rust

Rust!

After a couple of days break due to soggy weather, I got back to the garage today. I started to carry on with the underside, specifically the drivers footwell area. I got held up straight away, however, when I found a rust hole. 🙁 Either I missed it when I cleaned up the first time […]

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Boot and POR-15 prep

The boot area is now pretty much finished. 🙂 I spent a couple of evenings over the last week prepping and painting the wheel well area, as per instructions. It came out pretty well: After cleaning and applying Metal Ready: (Greyish surface is from zinc treatment, part of the Metal Ready) And after painting: Ooh,

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Wheelarches…

Are now done. There’s just a bit of filling and finishing to be done, all the welding was done over the last couple of days. The N/S arch wasn’t too bad, just one little patch at the bottom front, the rest is all rock solid. I’m happy with that. 🙂 The O/S was a bit

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A Year on…!

It’s been almost a year now since my last blog on here. Oops! I’ve not given up though, and I haven’t been completely idle (although work has been a bit slow, other projects and hobbies have been taking up my time), it’s been more of a case of the work being fairly slow and fiddly,

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Pics – and a road trip

As promised, I was down at the garage tonight after work (gotta love these long evenings), and took a few pics of the sill: It’s a mess alright! I figure maybe four new panels to make up and weld in, then make good all the rest, plus the new sill panel I’ll need to buy.

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Yeah, I know…

….it’s been a while. In my defence, I’ve been extremely busy of late, what with one thing and another – and what with the cold weather and dark evenings, I just haven’t had any time to devote to the car. However, I’m back on the case now, and ready to get started again. The last

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More stripping

I did a whole load more stripping this weekend: It’s surprising how much surface rust there was hiding underneath the paintwork – or maybe not, it is a Speke car after all! Either way, it looks like I caught it just in time. It’s all surface rust, with none of it looking in any danger

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Stripping

Got the paint stripping started today. 🙂 I’m using nitromors at the moment, for no better reason than I had some sitting on a shelf. Start: During: Finish: Check out the rust on top of the wheelarch! It’s just surface rust though, nothing serious – apart from the seatbelt mount. I’ll weld a new plate

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More rust

Now I’m mobile again, I got back to the ‘7 today. I’ve now got all the underseal off completely, and the underside is now ready for stripping and painting. Finally! The only bits I haven’t done yet are the gearbox tunnel (gearbox is still in the way; I’ll sort that out once I’ve pulled the

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