SMILER258

Wee update, I have welded more of the drivers floor, nearly finished it. Just need to finish it off in the morning with some heat from my early birthday present, and oxypropane torch Thanks dad!!! Also On saturday, the sills are getting chopped off Wish me luck fellas





^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ My welding. Is it good? Or OK? Or shit? It seems strong as it won't come apart

gjh

Nowt wrong with that welding. Looks like the car had one hell of a hard life with all that rust! Good thing to see it being saved.

SMILER258

done the floor pan, next is the passenger sill. Should be done by tuesday next week at the LATEST! Full steam ahead!!

gjh

You've been busy! It looks like rust loves you car! Quite a bit of to there.

SMILER258

Yep, the car has rust cancer, but it's slowly healing. It was never looked after, so it was slowly eaten at. And my dad said today he was just going to strip and scrap it if I hadn't asked for it, so I think I'm doing a good deed haha

gjh

I'd say so, is there much welding left?

SMILER258

I'm nearing the half way mark. There is small parts on various chassis leg parts, various small floor pan patches, the drivers rear quarters, drivers rear inner arch, the rear floor bits, spare wheel well, sills, transmittion tunnel, the

So far I have done 80% of the tranny tunnel, passenger floorpan and driver floor pan done, front crossmember done, front chassis legs, lots of small holes, most of the rear chassis legs done.

tjRS500

Are you going to put it rwd?

gjh

I doubt he will, as his dad had it I believe. Still a way to go with the welding then, but you're getting there.

SMILER258

Welding is taking time but i'm making progress. And no, 4X4 for this Sierra, my next one will hopefully be a mk1 hatch RWD

allaboutfords

Doing fantastic job your a braver man than me. Hows it going not heard much lately.

Java=Blue

Good luck with the sills today/tomorrow whatever time it is now haha....

Its all coming together

Mk4 Lew

iTrader: (1)

Looks shit
Looking good Nay

SMILER258

cheers lads, allaboutfords, I'm a stupider man than you I'm welding the outer sill on in about an hour. So it's nearly done, then on to the other. Just waiting for the waxoyl to soften so i can spray it everywhere lol

Cheers Lew, hows your heap goin

Cheers matt

SMILER258

update, sill from middle to finish with bits skipped haha.













wee batches are a pain, but neccisary


coated in radiant red dust lol



lathered in waxoyl for peace of mind



paint brush party lol



ta da, all went fairly well, a couple of things to finish, gave it a good coat of paint, and apart from a car fire all went well

next job chassis leg bits and tiny patches

comments welcome as always

gjh

Nice one Wonder how much welding wire you've gone through?

BON_300

Good job ! .... i have the same exact area problems

SMILER258

Cheers,

Greg, I have probably used a couple of kilograms atm... But it's definitely a growing number.

Bon, cheers , any pics of your car? You welding her up? Or reshell

gjh

Any more news then?

BON_300

A lot a lot a lot of rot !! The whole front end is a mess has rust under the battery tray right trough the bulkhead. On the dreiver side there is no inner sill left there is just part of the driver side running board and half a driver side floor pan. The passenger side is not as bad but still has a big hole in the footell, the jacking point has been lost somewhere sometime and rust along the inner side.
To sum it all up the chassis is twisted sidewaysdue to a horrible accident some years ago and a "farmer" panelbeater who did a very bad job doing the repairs. The previous owner did the repairs to cover up the damage using fibreglass , a lot of winshield sealer and chemical metal. I finished removing half a garbage bag of this stuff after 4 days working on it.
Now all the damage is evident and i must decide quickly what to do with the old lady

SMILER258

No updates till tomorrow greg,

Bon, sounds nasty I found my rear arch was just fibreglass yesterday, and i'm gonna try and get in touch with previous owners to get as much info as possible off them. Also found a small ding hidden under filler in the rear quarter

Unless your attached to your car like I am to this, I would just bin it and re shell. Not worth the effort as it is just too far gone by the sounds of it...

BON_300

i shall not kill her !

SMILER258

Well if your restoring I have one piece of advice.


PLEASE GET A GAS AXE

For heating and bending custom panels a blow torch is pants, I don't know how I ever survived without this before.

BON_300

Thanks for the advice but it`s goint to be professionally restored. I wish to start a thread with pics of the progress but i don`t know how

Mk4 Lew

iTrader: (1)

Get an update up you posh twat!

SMILER258

For uploading photos : www.photobucket.com Then upload them on there, the scroll over the photo you want up, it will come up with a menu, with four options, click the bottom one with an IMG code on it, then ctrl and v into the text box

Job done

Shut up Lewis, I have to make lots of things and weld lots of things, you dont

SMILER258

GAZEBO

Mk4 Lew

iTrader: (1)

Cos my sierras a fecking beast

siddleg

what a great thread your a top man and prob know more about cars than i do now

also nice to see a young bloke working on cars rather than sitting on an xbox.

goodluck with it and keep flying the rally flag we seem to be a dyeing breed these days

Mk4 Lew

iTrader: (1)

Both me and Nathan are young lads with a dream of keeping our classic sheds on the road, he's 14/15 with a XR4x4, I'm 16 with a Sapphire Cossie. Cars are our life's

xr2imetalhead

fantastic work m8 your welding is looking great now keep up

SMILER258

15 now Yeah, I want this car to live on for as long as possible haha, your just not plagued with the rot monster

Cheers , I sold my xbox 360 Elite for Ł50 quid to a friends brother for his girlfriends birthday lol. Oh the benefit of hindsight I could have got a LOT more but hey ho. Do you do road rallying?

Cheers, my welding is gradually improving. Hopefully get a career in it as I enjoy doing it


Todays job is to weld more of the floor, weld all the drain holes and little holes up, and I also bought a new drill this morning

gjh

Keep it up Nath, its deffo getting there.

SMILER258

Cheers. Today I had several trip to bods and queers.
one for a drill
one for a hole cutter and other stuff
I was also pre accupied sorting out the outdoor storage boxes as she is coming in for winter

But today I got a fair few of the tiny drill holes welded and welded all of the drain holes up. Tomorrow it's up early and back on it

Mk4 Lew

iTrader: (1)

Thought so matey just wanted to make sure

botters

iTrader: (2)

doing well there mate glad to see it being saved
on your sill have you welded it on the lip at the bottom at all as it doesnt look like you have?

SMILER258

Cheers On the bottom lip of the sill there is a mixture of plugwelds on parts of it and the entire sill has been seam welded, which took a good while to do.

rs clint

hell off a lot of work looking good m8

gjh

Nice one Nath! Don't forget we need plenty of pics!!

SMILER258

Cheers I'm still doing stuff, just keep forgetting to update the thread. Might do a massive update tonight. But got back from the Jackson trophy last night. Knackered