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Good to see the strip down and clean up commence. Your cross member doesn't look as bad as mine was and your inner wing has done same as my ns one did. Take your time and you'll be fine but have someone on fire watch. I found wet towels or rags are great to keep the smoke and flames to a minimum.
 
Apart from C02 extinguisher, I keep a water spray handy, you know window cleaner type pump sprays, very effective at small hard to reach hot spots, as a plumber I have saved much wall paper when soldering pipes with spraying first, Rick
 
jims-terrano said:
Good to see the strip down and clean up commence. Your cross member doesn't look as bad as mine was and your inner wing has done same as my ns one did. Take your time and you'll be fine but have someone on fire watch. I found wet towels or rags are great to keep the smoke and flames to a minimum.
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reminds me of when Swifty was here and had a motor in for welding was in the workshop over night, he started welding in the morning, noticed smoke in the motor, tried to open door to squirt it with C02 but door locked and no keys, owner had not left them, result scrapped motor, Rick
 
solarman216 said:
reminds me of when Swifty was here and had a motor in for welding was in the workshop over night, he started welding in the morning, noticed smoke in the motor, tried to open door to squirt it with C02 but door locked and no keys, owner had not left them, result scrapped motor, Rick
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Arghhhhh that was bad:doh
 
Yeah it is looking daunting but I'm not one to shy away from a challenge. I've come to far now to let it beat me so I'll give it a damn good go :thumb2
 
Haha just come to post and it told me I needed to pay again.

Still looking for an appropriate welder but I've done a bit more cleaning and finding even more work :(

Had a poke round the sills.......



After removing the rear arch



Fixed a little wiring problem.




Then got anal and cleaned the rusted and filthy number plate lights :D
 
Nice little wiring fix :clap

I guess the sills are not really a surprise.

Are you thinks ng about buying a welder and having a go yourself?
 
That's the plan. It'd cost a whole lot more than me buying a welder for someone else to do it which would lead to it being scrapped. I'm trying to avoid that by buying one and doing it myself :thumb2
 
Picked a welder and gas up and got a sheet of steel, few more bits to order up so I can make a start next weekend :thumb2
 
Painted the headlight covers and grill again to freshen it up, tidied the pipework etc ready for the catch can and snapped all the bolts holding the vac lines and associated gubbins on that side :D
 
Wings appeared eventually, turns out a neighbour spotted them and took them in, went on hol and dropped them round earlier.
They do have some damage to one corner but other than that they seem to be ok and the fits not too bad.






Also tidied up the light covers, grill and mirror covers


 
Are those the fibre glass wings that you see advertised on ebay?

How do the mirror covers come off?
 
Yup fibreglass, mirror covers just clip off. They are tight and a flat screwdriver helps :thumb2
 
Few little jobs ticked off.
Altered the front indicator wiring so I can run the fogs as indicators rather than mount some tacky things in the winch bumper.

Trail fitted the catch can


Meshed the grill


Found more rotten crap, I'm hoping the guy that did my exhaust can knock me one up.


Pick the bumper up next weekend


And finally made a start on filling the holes


Offered the snorkel template up, not looking forward to chopping these wings up already

 
What a legend, you need a medal for all that hard work buddy

Top job seriously!!! :thumb2
 
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