my first mk2

[HarrierTony]

Coming along nicely mate, will be like a new car when you have it done.

The rear arches are spot welded to the inner arches on the return lip part.

[gazza66]

As it happens I didn't have any arches they had already been lopped off years ago however the 4door tubs I got had the arches spot welded and bonded to the tub, to be honest I was thinking about bonding them around the lip then leaving the sealer to go off. Once it's set I was planning on drilling some holes (with spot weld drill) throug the wheel arch lip and sealer till it hits the steel of the tub and leaving a clean hole to plug weld in a couple of places just for good measure. Might be better ways of doing it tho, that's just how I'd thought about doing it.

Yeah sounds about right, get loads of piccys of that process Ill be very interested in that

[13sport]

As it happens I didn't have any arches they had already been lopped off years ago however the 4door tubs I got had the arches spot welded and bonded to the tub, to be honest I was thinking about bonding them around the lip then leaving the sealer to go off. Once it's set I was planning on drilling some holes (with spot weld drill) throug the wheel arch lip and sealer till it hits the steel of the tub and leaving a clean hole to plug weld in a couple of places just for good measure. Might be better ways of doing it tho, that's just how I'd thought about doing it.

[gazza66]

May sound like a silly question but how do the rear tubs join the arches. Ive looked at loads of threads and cant quite see if there welded or what. How are you gonna join these ??

[13sport]

hopefully have more done tommorow afternoon after work, this might sound like a dum question but are the ex pressed arches much better than the hadrian etc spurious ones? i only ask as they are 3 times the price of hadrian etc ones but, i have heard that spurios arches dont fit origional tubs very well at all. In fairness ive found majority of hadrian panels ive bought not to be to bad to fit, fair enough they have taken a bit of fettling to get to fit right but on that note the steel is soft and easy to work with. Is ex-pressed steel any better quality? I asume the pressings have to be better than any spurious will be but dont really want to spend all that extra if the steel is still soft monkey metal That spurious ones are

[13sport]

been meaning to upload these for days so here ya go. drivers side half tub removed ready for donor 4 door tub. Had to make a couple of repairs to the bootfloor as it was a tad crusty where the tub meets it in a couple of places then gave it a coat of zinc primer

new tub cleaned up ready to trial fit

tub clamped into position

and a pic from the inside

passenger side one all cleaned up now ready to go in but still need to remove the old half of origional tub. Hopefully welded into place soon but need rear arches off x pressed to check fit before the final welds. Think they will be fine tho and hopefully wont have to add a piece into quarter as the arches are slightly more generous than spurious ones.

[south west restorations]

I mam get the pics up lol

[HarrierTony]

I've had the bulkheads blasted and been working on rear tubs.

So where are our photos then

[13sport]

Haha best thing to do is lock the garage doors so nobody can call in for tea brakes and just crack on. I've had the bulkheads blasted and been working on rear tubs.

[gazza66]

cmon, get stuck in, i need more inspiration

[13sport]

need to get stuck into the mk2 again, anyone want a nice old transporter van?

[13sport]

Yep I've seen it a time or two nice project. Chisel scraper makes life much easier than trying to do it by hand

[gazza66]

I used an electric chisel scraper mate £20 well spent from local hardware store. What's your car?

Nice one, bought one today from Lidl, £16.00, had a quick little scrape and seems pretty good. Green 76 Mk2 Mexico, you may have see it on ebay a few times , just a shell basically and needs plenty of work/welding but it is an original Mex.

[pinto48s]

Coming along nice mate.
Lovely job on those seat boxes.

[13sport]

I used an electric chisel scraper mate £20 well spent from local hardware store. What's your car?