Ivan's coupe: roof stuccowork
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04-09-2012, 09:45 PM
Post: #330
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Did a bit of bodging on a spot which had about 3 dubious looking repair patches at the corner of the rear wheel well and sill. It also had a small hole in the sill, we all know what that means by now.
As always, an evening of cursing and removing many-layers of old and new sheetmetal with rust in between ensued. Apologies for crap pics.. only had my phone on hand. First up: making holes (my forté). Patched up the inner most layer of the lower rear sill seam (part of floor). It was looking a bit rough because this is a spot that is regularly used for jacking and 2-post bridges (those are the devil I tell you!). A proper repair would have been to replace much more of it, but that was difficult due to the still intact outrigger behind it that I did not want to remove. Patched up the inner sill strengtheners (there are 2 of 'em in there). Only made a picture of the outer one though.. That gets us up to 3 layers on the sill seam (floor + 2 inner sills). Last but not least: the outer skin. I removed it up to the original spotwelded join. This is both easier to make a patch for, but it also gave me more room to work on the inner sills and it had surface rust all over. Been a bit lazy with grinding because it is a really hard place to get the grinder in. The little step in the sill is easy to hit and mess up. I'll have to finish it off another time. The inner wheel well still needs to be repaired and the lower edge of the wheelarch needs finishing, but I'm still looking into the option of replacing the arches altogether with escort ones. FABRICA MI DIEM, PVNC! |
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