Everything always takes longer than you planned, doesn’t it? I gave the tailgate frame a couple of coats of Corsican Blue, sorted for me by Wigan Car Paints. There’s a distinct edge between the old and new, but the tailgate’s probably the most faded panel on what is after all a near thirty year old car Apparently I should be able to blend it in once I attack the rest of…
It’s all practice, practice, practice as far as bodywork goes I guess Generally speaking, a bolt either fits a nut or it doesn’t – whereas there’s a million and one things that can affect a weld Even if I totally bodge it up, I can still pick up another tailgate and call this a test piece On with the show… Having put the new metal into the bottom of the screen frame,…
Spent an afternoon laboriously hand-fabricating some pieces to fill the holes in the frame, and to be brutally honest, they looked like my five year old neice could have done better I’ll not even show you them, you’ll laugh too much Popped out to Machine Mart and got one of their vice-mounted metal folders, together with a nice shiny new vice to fix onto the new workbench (when I finish building it ) For the…
Chopped out the rust on the inside of the screen frame last night and even managed to find some good metal to leave in the middle as a reference A small amount of the outside of the frame will need chopping out too, but I’m planning to get the inside done first so I can then use that as a new datum. As a reminder to me, (as much as…
Concensus on the oil leak seems to be that they pretty much all do that anyway and I should just keep an eye on it until I either replace the head gasket or it gets worse – I can live with that This weekend I spent most of Sunday mixing filler, applying it really carefully, sanding back down (with 80 then 180 grit paper) then giving it a squirt of…