New rear jack plates

New rear jack plates

Todays work was alot about prepping for welding and finally doing some welding. The areas where the new jack plates connects to the body was media blasted and painted with a weldthru primer (the blue stuff) The same paint was applied to the jackplates where there will be metal to metal contact and subsequently hard...

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The curse of previous owners…

The curse of previous owners…

I’ve mentioned before that the cars has been crashed in the right front at some time, today it was time to tackle some of the remains of that. This is what the left strut tower looks like. …and here’s the right one. It seems that someone at some point thought it would be better to...

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Rear floor cleanup

Today I spent some time cleaning up the rear floor and engine bay from old greasy dirt and built up crud, found a rustspot in the trunk floor that had been overlooked so that took some time to fix. I also drilled out the remains of the brackets for the muffler heat shield. Here’s a...

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First primer

First primer

The last week has been spent repairing rust, mainly in the front end, the floors pieces under the headlight buckets was kinda nasty so I’ve mediablasted the insides and then repaired the sections that was so thin they were blasted thru. I’ve also been scraping/sanding/mediablasting the underside of the car. Today I laid the first...

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