My project... Now MOTed!! ... Again..

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Interior looks ok...

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Front valance is on

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Engine bay needs a bit of attention...

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Rear inner wing after underseal, no welding needed here..

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Or here

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This greeted me under the nearside sill cover.. Solid, but looks like its been "welded"...

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I'll be taking this back to bare metal for some POR15 rust preventing paint..

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Looks ok further forward though. All the screws came undone ok.. :D
 
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Thanks Dave, It's pretty solid, and it only failed MOT in January this year with a couple of faults, one electrical, and the back brakes need looking at, left hand rear parking brake recording little or no effort, and a new exhaust required (done), so if I can get to grips with getting all the panels back on and painted, it shouldn't be long before its on the road again... 8)
 
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looks solid enough. I had to fabricate jacking points at end of sills on both sides .... in fact I had loads of little patches in all the usual water traps. Wait till you take roof skin off and front glass out :D PS I am so so so relieved to see your pics as I am in same boat and it is beginning to break me. I have engine swapped and interior stripped concurrently and am thoroughly burnt out at present. How far are you going with yours? Just bodywork, or complete gut out as I have done. If you need any advice about anything please feel free to ask and I may be able to help. CHeers Jim
 
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I'm going to make sure the car is structurally sound, and get it through MOT and bodywork at the moment. I hope to drive it and enjoy it for a while, it'll be a dry weather car, garaged, so I can save up my pennies, and go to town properly in a few years time. I'm painting the panels myself, I've got all the kit, but in time I'll get a professional respray done, so its really stunning. From what I've seen, the car's been pretty well looked after in the past, so I'm not expecting any major issues. The underneath and cockpit and boot floor are all like new, solid as a rock, and I think the only welding thats been done is patching up the sills, and a couple of small patches at the front inner wings. Still, we'll see... :?
 
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To be fair, the rot on mine was in places you just would not see, down the front pillars when chrome was removed, under bottom of front screen and around screen recess (not visible until screen rubber and screen out). Bulkhead, again cant see until heater out, along gutter channel, again, have to have chrome off. You'll be amazed at what is lurking under all that trim and rubber!! My car has by far and away more patches in snotty little places that are just not visible, the skeleton of the thing as solid as u like .... but all done now, all ground back and red oxided and loaded up with paint. I think I have sunk over 15 lirtes of schutz around my car on the underside of panels, in the sills etc .... and you know what, I bet there is still some crud about. The new method of acid dipping is the only way to do it 100% thoroughly.
 
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I agree with you totally. I think there are gonna be bits like that on mine. I found a small patch where the bottom rear bolt on the drivers rear wing goes thru that needed welding yesterday, so dug my MIG welder out and tackled it straight away. I suspect there's some rust lurking under the gutter rail on the roof, so I'll be taking off the chrome trims to see. If I can get a couple of years of fun out of it first, though, it'll give me chance to save up and really go to town, as soon as I can afford it, I'll go down the acid/alkaline bath route in a few years time. I don't plan on using the car in the wet, and it will be parked in a dehumidified garage over the winter, so hopefully it won't get any worse, not that its too bad to start with, it seems. I'm using POR15 rust preventative paint from Frost's everywhere I can find rust, followed by a good coating of body schutz, 99% of it is surface rust though, it seems so far. I'll use this thread as a kind of diary, and will get more pics up soon. :)
 
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Got the rear decker and both rear wings fitted today, all painted up and undersealed on the inside, but with the first coat of colour on the outside. Boot needs stripping and it all needs flatting for the top coats to go on.
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Had a look under the boot floor today, while bolting up the rear wings, and found what looked like rust coming through.
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Ground it all off with a flap grinder..
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Gave it a generous coating of POR15..
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Followed by a topcoat of 3M body schutz..
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Looks like some work is going to be needed on the De-dion tube though...
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Good to see you're making progress. You're right about the De Dion tube but I assume you mean the rusty elbows.

I on the other hand can't fail to notice that someone has fitted the whole tube the wrong way around. The rubber gaitor should be on the passenger side, not the drivers as it is on your car. Still while it's in bits you can put it back the right way!
 
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In that case my De Dion tube is on the wrong way round too . Does it make any practical difference ?
 
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DaveHerns said:
In that case my De Dion tube is on the wrong way round too . Does it make any practical difference ?
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Whether it does or it doesn't isn't really the point (to a pedant) it's not right and that's all there is to say about it! :wink:

But back to the point, if you have an early one the filler plug will be in the wrong place (although it might actually be easier to get at) but I can't think that using it the wrong way around will have adverse effects.
 
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Glad you pointed that out.. The filler plug is quite easy to get to as is, it'd be interesting to see where it would be if the whole tube was turned around the right way.. I'm also assuming that it is only the tube that is wrong, otherwise I'm sure the elbows would be the wrong way up where it bolts onto the trailing arms behind the springs, at the bottom of the hub.

On a lighter note... you should have seen tha state of me after grinding off all that old underseal with a flap grinder... I looked like a coal miner at the end of his shift... :)
 
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Harvey, are you sure about this? My car has the rubber gaitor on the same side (driver's to you).

And the diagrams in both the factory workshop manual and parts catalogue show that it should be there...
 
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Demetris said:
Harvey, are you sure about this? .
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Well I am beginning to have my doubts........................

The books all show the gaitor on the drivers side, but the cars came from the factory with them on the passenger side. So the books are all wrong. (I hope!) and that accounts for why so many are wrong, people have fitted them after looking at the book.
The filler plug (if fitted) should be between the tube and the boot well, not between the tube and the diff.
 
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My filler plug is between the tube and the boot well, and I reckon it would still be there if the tube were swapped end to end...
 
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V8P6B said:
My filler plug is between the tube and the boot well, and I reckon it would still be there if the tube were swapped end to end...
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Yes, you're right about that, the tube would just need to be positioned on the elbows in the right place for the filler to be where it should be.
Not that that has any bearing on which side of the car the gaitor should be.......................
 
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harveyp6 said:
Demetris said:
Harvey, are you sure about this? .
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Well I am beginning to have my doubts........................
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I am sure my old car 'Thunderdog,' had the boot on the offside, and I was the second owner. The first owner didn't know the difference between a torque wrench and a banana, so I am sure I was the first person to take it out.

I am however getting old and may be getting dazed and confused :wink:
 
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If you had a grease lubricated tube i wouldn't have thought it made any difference which side the sliding joint was, if oil lubricated then the filler could well be in the wrong position.

Chris
 
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chrisyork said:
If you had a grease lubricated tube i wouldn't have thought it made any difference which side the sliding joint was, if oil lubricated then the filler could well be in the wrong position.

Chris
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Well that's not strictly true, because you can fit the tube in any one of the eight positions that the bolts would allow.

BUT I'm definately beginning to think I may have err, well, umm, how can I say, perhaps not quite been erm................100% accurate in my previous description of the location of the boot........... :oops:

But I'm still not sure.
 
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