looo!!

i've gotta remove a small part of the kit to allow access to get some welding done, couple on arch are rivets so can be drilled out, but what about the screws on the flat part under door. Any ideas on getting these out?

Perhaps drill out again, or hit a crosshead into the screw with a hammer?

any ideas greatfully received.

 

ive never had to remove an RST kit but, if its rivveted on then you can just drill thatem out no probs.. im not sure about how your gonna get the screws off underneath though.. i imagine if you cant just 'undo' them then your only option is going to be to drill them out.

 

Drill a hole into top of screw about 4mm i think. This will drill out the screw itself and the head drops off when drill removed. Use slightly larger sef tapping screws when refixing

 

ok chap ta, im gonna need to get the rubber coated rivets from ford as well aint i?

 

need to do it at this one point (both sides) for mot reasons

rest looks fairly clean

wot car u got/workin on now rudey, me bredbin?

 

Cant leave anything alone you can ya Rudey

 

Looks nice enuff rude. Lesses old un yeah?

Stu yeah better with ford plastic coated rivets, or get alloy and paint em black

 

the rivvets on mine are normal alloy ones but i guess they could look a bit on a black car... good luck anyway! hope you dont find anythin too nasy while doing it!

 

rudey like the reg number mate!!! ARD!!!

 

dont worry rudey these can be replaced when we going to atack it mate
lol

 

sorted.

fook the drill, fook trying to get em off with a screwdriver, some i just pulled thru the kit and some i managed to prise away with a screwdriver and then pull the coonts out with some pliers

stu.h 1 - bodykit 0



i'll go get some pics of what i found and post em later.

up for tony c to come and finish off

 

Yea, u will find the screws will be a no go as they are always rusted on, glad u got it sorted, worst nightmare removing kit on s2

 

loverly straight lines mate


love that car sweet as

 

stright lines mean nothing if you know how to use filler
i carnt wait to chip away at it rudy when i start the welding misson

 

I quite like that car meself and cheers me up to know she went to a good home and I can say there aint no filler in her all original panels.

That car cost me a bloody fortune

 

true matey but i is in the know




peace

 

Found a clip of her on the rollers at nobles the other day

 

Stu, the screws under the side skirts are machined and screw into rivnuts mate, best thing would be to soak em in wd40 (or summat better) then try n undo em, BUT chances are they are rusted in, so as Lee suggested you could try drilling them, though do it VERY VERY slowly, as soon as you put a bit oof speed on it the rivnut will turn with the screw and drill, in the sill mate, which will in turn just melt through the skirts... I was lucky with Tony's some came out no prob, some a drilled a couple I was able to grind the top off the screw then bang the rivnut in and replace after painting...

Best to use the proper Ford Rivets, as these are plastic coated and will prevent corrosion when repainted/reriveted in place...

 

 

me as well mate trainned in body repair aswell and mechanical
i know a few tricks with the bodge spreader

rudy send me ya mob number mate i will ring

 

cheers for the borrowing of the stuff yesterday brom

see ya soon fella

 

yer THIS WAS THE BASTID and it was mint



my black one dont look like a bus anymore like in me sig, but it aint got no mot or tax



gimme a couplea days

 

Yeah Stu remember seeing your old S2 at the camp site a couple of years back was mint

 

yer WAS

sold to a 19 yr old who wrote it off in under 2 weeks

 

like ya motor looks sweet (the white one) as mate sorry for the hijack

pity its been killed by a teenager