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Old Mar 31st, 2021, 10:55   #121
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Looking great.

Bet the client is chuffed.

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More great work there Luke and excellent welding on your dads part.
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Thanks guys, it will hopefully have an MOT bybthe end of the month. Dave I may need you to repair the capacitors in the speedo after all as it doesn't show any signs of coming back to life even after being dried out and driven several times, it is acting the exact same way as before.
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Thanks guys, it will hopefully have an MOT bybthe end of the month. Dave I may need you to repair the capacitors in the speedo after all as it doesn't show any signs of coming back to life even after being dried out and driven several times, it is acting the exact same way as before.
No worries Luke, did you by any chance bookmark the list of them that matey posted?
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My dad has been very busy working on the rust repairs.

He has had the carpets up, hoovered a lot of leaves out of the sills inside and welded up loads of rot holes that he has found. He has also sprayed dinitrol ML down all the sills and chassis rails internally, painted the welds, put a very thick layer of stonechip over it all and has waxoyl to go over the top.


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The front passenger footwell had a bulge in the carpet, my dad pulled it up and found a massive bubble of rust which when looked ended up like this over the jacking point/chassis rail.


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A few patches on both sills welded up and stone chipped (no photos of the repairs)


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Dinitrol dripping out of the drain holes


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The rear seat squab was lifted, broken glass, Lego and filth was hoovered up and cleaned, the plugs were removed and again dinitrol was sprayed heavily inside. The nozzle has several holes in all directions so it sprays out in a fan to spray in all directions.


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I then adjusted the bonnet release cable, it has about 3 inches of slack in it! So I had to remove the cable from the release mechanism and then pull it taught, feed it back through the hole and then bend it over. It was then a bit too tight so I slackened off the three mounting bolts and it moved a bit from the tension. I tightened the bolts and tested and it worked perfectly so now I have finally fitted the grille back in place permanently.


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Nice welding. Done properly by cutting out and neat.

Looking good.

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What James said ^^^^^
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Nice welding. Done properly by cutting out and neat.

Looking good.

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My dad has been a welder for about 35 years and can weld aluminium, tig and mig weld so he knows his stuff. He used to work building recovery lorries for broken down lorries, he used to have to weld ridiculous lengths to make a flat bed for the back of them.

Unfortunately he doesn't have room for a proper welder so he has to use my little Clarke mini mig flux core welder but he has still done a great job.

He now has a job making a prototype electric vehicle and is having tig weld the aluminium chassis together.
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That is a nice job on the welding, accounting for the tools it is an amazing job
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Tow hook removed and welding done, now it just needs the battery trays welding and it is done!


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