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PHU41R Restoration - part 9 - first body repairs
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 11:51 am
by iRS
This is continued from:
viewtopic.php?f=45&t=12323#p66978
Once stripped, I counted up about a dozen areas needing welding, ranging from major things such as the floors, to much smaller repairs. I thought I'd start at the front, so tackled the corrosion between the shock absorber mounting strengthener piece and the inner wing. This didn't look too bad on the passenger side:
However, a bit of cutting revealed this:
I tidied that up by cutting out the worst area:
Re: PHU41R Restoration - part 9 - first body repairs
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 11:53 am
by iRS
and then welded in thick gauge steel to repair the strengthener:
and then finished it off with standard gauge steel
It needs a bit of tidying up still, but now its rot free.
Re: PHU41R Restoration - part 9 - first body repairs
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 12:05 pm
by iRS
On the driver's sides repair had already been made. I thought about grinding off the weld and making it look better, but then I thought again and removed the repair piece:
That revealed this:
and with the worst cut out:
Re: PHU41R Restoration - part 9 - first body repairs
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 3:05 pm
by davidr
good stuff Roger - keep it coming!
Re: PHU41R Restoration - part 9 - first body repairs
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 3:42 pm
by J44EAG
Moths. Definitely moths.... trust me. I know about these things.
Mike.
Re: PHU41R Restoration - part 9 - first body repairs
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 8:18 pm
by iRS
Its taken me ages to get around to finishing this off.
First I thought cardboard:
Then I thought metal:
I think the metal may last longer......
Fabricating the metal was actually really quite tricky due to the numerous folds and bends in the piece. I ended making it out of two pieces and welding up one of the fold lines.