Now that im home in new plymouth for a bit i managed to get into the shed this afternoon.

re-aligned the anglebox's position in the shed :D




i had cut the rear bumper mount rail/valance thingy off a while ago, i had been buffing the paint off to bare metal and found that all the metal disappeared... so i cut off what was left and got another folded up where i used to work.

standing the car on its edge however i have now found more rust in the seam of the boot floor



so i cut a big hole in the floor (no pic of that yet)
also found that the bumper mounts themselves are totally shot



so i cut them off too, i've just spent the rest of the evening starting to unpick what's left of the section of boot floor that i cut out.

tomorrow im going to go and get a spot weld drill to make things alot easier. Then i'll start on some welding with my piece of crap mig welder.

i borrowed a mates spot weld removing drill thingy today, saved soooo much time.

I unpicked the seams on all the parts around that rear valance area and found ALOT more rust :(

i cut the bumper mount off the right hand side and found the chassie rail to be full of old mud... had to ask the question "where the f*** did that mud get in?" so i went along the rail with a screw driver and right where the tyre would throw dirt at it, the screwdriver dissapeared through the underseal. big hole...



and then once i got the rest of the bumper mount and valance cut off i found a piece of tin that was riveted over the end of the valance, so i ground off the rivets and found even MORE rust...






so now with all the rust cut out along the valance area and all cleaned up ready for patch panels



as you can see i have spent lots of time on the end of my grinder today :?

i have also decided to get some dry ice and get ALL the underseal off, i want to know what other big rust holes are hiding underneath it, hopefully not too much. the car will be getting completely bare metalled now as i don't want any bubbles coming out of surprise bodgey repairs that were done by other owners.

i've got patch panels made up for all the boot floor holes now too which i will fit up tomorrow.

looks very familiar to my Anglia rear chassis ends[88] except the grit blasting turned mine into Swiss cheese!!
keep up the good work buddy

im just stoked i don't have to cut off and rebuild the spring hanger mounts, not yet anyway, we will see really once i get all that bloody underseal off

great to see some progress on teh Anglia projects. mine is looking like it will be quite mild compared to these other two efforts, but it will be great to see three more of the se great cars come back to life.

managed to spend a whole bunch of time in the shed yesterday and got a fair bit done.

managed to get two of the three big holes patched, the other will have to wait till the car is on its other edge to get access for welding.

also removed the diff assembly and cut out the rusty section of chassie rail and started to fab up the replacement section













hopefully i'll get into the shed for a bit tomorrow and finish that chassie rail and then rip into making up new bumper mounts.

i've got my welder on trademe at the moment too so i can get a gass mig, my gasless one just doesnt do a clean enough job, i wouldn't have a show of doing any seam welding like marty's with my POS

yea you definately need a proper mig, i use 0.6mm wire which works best on thin metal and my mig is a 170amp.
maybe you should build a rotissery to make woking on your car easier

i did think about building a rotiseree but the only welding work left that i have to do is that stuff on the back that i am working on, it would be alot of expense and fuss for only a weeks work

got my patch panel pade up for that chassie rail.
I'm very proud of it, its the best bit of fab work i have ever done! and i even managed to get a halfway decent weld out of my mig







also started to fab up the new bumper mount and chassie rail end almost finished it and ran out of bloody wire!!!


making steady progress anyway, keep getting distracted by dads race car project...

Looking good!!!
Shaun