Hello good ford people! Ive got a small update but im on my fone while the mrs is playing with lil one at soft play so atm im unsure if i can get pics to work. Ill give it ago tho
Firstly i just wana say this project proberly seems like to people that its one of the many that will never get finished but i can asure you it will. This is my first car and the love is too strong to give up on it lol
Right so with that out of the way ill get started. Only a small update but progress is progress lol.
Yesterday i got down to the workshop and got on with the floor pan clean up. At first i was just going to use the wire wheel on a grinder to remove the lil bits of seam sealer but during the prosess i found tiny lil bits of rust starting to form under the primer so i desided to bare metal it. Right lets try load some pics lol
Not comming up to bad i rekon. Theres alot of metal work needed doing but im a very compitant welder and mechanic so nothing has scared me off yet lol. As seen in a previous picm, my front chassis leg edges are swelling with rust inbetween the layers of metal so i run over that with the wire wheel to and woah! Worse that i thought! Just glad the other one is nowere near as bad
After around an hour or so i had gone deaf due to the high pitch scream of the wire wheel on the metal and also fed up with picking wires out of my face i thought id do a lil bit of welding and atm i have no thin cutting disc so i coundnt start on the holes so i desided to seam weld the chassis legs for added strength. Some say its pointless but i dont care. Its my car and in doing it my way lol
Welding aint as neat as i wanted it but my wlder kept spitting on ocasions and ill be re undersealing it anyway. Im not going to seam weld the whole shell but i will be doing the chassis legs and front and rear of the floor pan and rear chassis legs. So now fed up with getting burnt i thought id get the grinder back out before it got too late and bare metaled the rear section and the start of the rear leg.
Jeeze this takes a long time on a fone! Lol.
Now comming towards the end of the day. I wished i had more time to spend on it but i gotta keep the mrs happy so im with her on sundays doing family type stuff lol. As it was getting late i didnt want to piss the neibours off so i thought i best quieten down and also my wire wheel was almost worn out now ( most of it in my face and fleece lol) i thought id do abit of scraping of the other side so out come my office chair and wood chisel and away i went.
Im baffled as to why the nearside is so much better than the off side??? Its like a hundred times better. The chassis leg isnt swelling, theres no holes in the floor, the sill was no were near as bad. I just dont get it?
Thats it for this week but ive got one more lil thing to share with you lot and thats my awesome lil quad bike ive made and is now finished
Lil story about it first tho lol.
I got a job to get a lil 50cc kids quad running and i thought would be a breeze but wen i got it, it was fitted with an imbobaliser?? And it was all wired up with black wires so i used it as an excuse to not do the job and my mate just said oh you can have it if you want so i gave him a drink for it and i thought ooh ice got a kawasaki 125 engine and bits in the garage and shoved it in and got it going. On the first ride i found it was a death trap as it just wanted to wheelie in very gear and it didnt steer very well and lost interest. Then one day i thought, maybe if i widen and lenthen it it might handle abit better so i striped it down, deleted the rear suspension and welded up the frame then choped in in half and lengthened it then choped the axle and front arms and widened it and put it back together. So far this awesome lil toy has cost me 20 quid and its a hell of a buzz. Any way here she is!
Thats all folks xxx