my first mk2

[pinto48s]

I,ve got one of the Clarke type spot welders, for the money its a good tool, just lacks clamping pressure with long arms fitted.
That other welder is lovely!!

[HarrierTony]

Will deffo look better with the replacement bulkhead panel Jon, cant be much left to sort on the body now

[87cos]

some nice work being done

[mk1GTstu]

nice work! keep the pics coming.

[13sport]

Bit more done to the Darlington dustbin today. Cut the grotty bit out of the bottom of the c pillar, glad i cut as much out as i did as the piece behind was gone as well as the front bit. heres the piece i cut out


Made a repair to the piece behind then made a new piece up and welded in then dressed up

Then thought id give the donor bulkhead a clean up and see how much of it i could use to repair mine with. Did it with wire wheel in grinder, it was very rusty so ended up blasting it.

Turned out to be ok for what i need, the left hand corner ended up a bit like a tea bag tho.

Then gave it a quick coat of zinc primer

Should look a lot nicer than this

[13sport]

aaaaahhh underseal!!....can't beat hours of tedious scraping and brushing drifting in and out of conciousness from inhaling so much diesel fumes and not been able to feel you fingers for 2 days afterwards.

Cheers Rik just what I needed to motivate me! We don't use diesel up north we r hard and stupid and use thinners for everything!

[13sport]

I used some wurth panel bond mate any polyurethane type adhesive will be ok tho. Sikaflex tiger seal, pu-flex there's loads of them. Just makes sure it's definately polyurathane and u would go far wrong and for f**ks sake don't use silicone sealer lol.

[gazza66]

Thats a cracking job mate , what bonding did you use on the tubs to arches ?

[SHIFTY]

Looking well, keep up the good work

[rikb80]

aaaaahhh underseal!!....can't beat hours of tedious scraping and brushing drifting in and out of conciousness from inhaling so much diesel fumes and not been able to feel you fingers for 2 days afterwards.

[13sport]

Managed to do a bit more this evening, double checked measurements then sat the windows in the holes just to be on the safe side

Once we were happy mark set to welding it on, im very pleased with the result, just a bit more welding to do then clean the welds up. The donor roof off the green car was ropey along the gutter so we went with the un conventional way of cutting it just above the corner of the skin so it should metal finish well and it will certainly be strong as its welded both sides.

Soon be on this spit hopefully to fettle the bulkhead and get the unseal and clart cleaned off.

[13sport]

I wouldn't bank on that statement

[rikb80]

putting me to shame here, yours will be on the road way before mine

[13sport]

The no rust spec lol. It's getting pinto on twin 40's 5 speed. Trimmed inside black fishnets, half cage. Just keeping it simple. Undecided on colour yet and might even Mex rep it even tho it's the wrong age il just make something I like using everything I have to hand.

[Mitchy]

Doing a cracking job there mate, what sort of spec are you going for once completed ?