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[mugginz]

 

Looking under the car on the other side of this rear quarter you can see techniques of the true lame ripoff panel beater in place.

 

The approach is basically as follows.

 

 

Sort of a turd sandwich as below.

 

 

No rust treatment or prevention.  Basically the rust that was there was left to fester between the patches.

 

 

 

I'll post the pix of this area pulled apart later loday.

[mugginz]

 

 

[308 Sunbird]

Good luck- looks like the old girl is in good hands now.

[mugginz]

Good luck- looks like the old girl is in good hands now.

 

Thanks Sunbird.  If it didn't have the attachment that being my first car brings, I dunno if this would've become a project for me, but having gotten my feet wet (really wet) I think I'd take on just about anything now

[mugginz]

 

Thank got that at least one side of the car had the internal bits of the rear quarter panel that were factory steel.  They were rusty though and needed attention, but made for good reference for the other side where some of it was cut out and replaced with debauchery by Simon.

 

 

Off with this part....

 

 

I made up a replacement for this part as it was a little too rusty for my liking and I also made its opposite for the passenger side of the car.

 

 

 

[mugginz]

At this stage the drivers side quarters pretty much done.  I didn't take progress pix though.  I guess I got too into it to take any but the passengers' side is pretty much a carbon copy of the drivers side as far as Simons' approach to "repairs" goes.

 

So first up was to see what kind of horror story was hiding behind this patch.

 

 

Both the rail and boot floor extension were rusty.  Both sections were cut out, sandblasted and weld through primed before repair sections were welded in.

 

 

Here's the rail section all ready for weldage.

 

 

Fit like a finger in a ... glove.

 

 

The difference between sanded and unsanded metal really show up with the weld through primer.  When it's all done in chassis coat it should look pretty uniform, not that you'll be able to see in here without pulling the car apart .

 

 

 

Now onto the rest of the quarter.

[mugginz]

While I was reading through 76lxhatch's build log I noticed there was something I missed on the drivers side inner wheel well patch I made.

 

 

 

When my car went from this...

 

 

 

to this...

 

 

 

I didn't include the hole that's shown in 76lxhatch's pix

 

 

 

 

I'm wondering if anyone can help me with some info.  Location measurements would be great if I can get em as well as clear pix.  I'm not sure what diameter the hole is though I'm guessing it could be the same as the 4 other ones where the screw on covers are in the floor.  I'd like to get all these repairs back to as close to factory as I can get em where possible so any help would be gratefully received.

 

Thanks,

mugginz.

[mugginz]

Nice work so far mate, should look good when done

 

Thanks man, I'm taking my time to try and get everything as close to as new as I can get it including the internal panel sections that no one sees.  Hopefully I'll be able to get a good crack at the passenger side rear quarter this weekend.

[mugginz]

On the subject of hole locations as per this....

 

 

while I was repairing the other side there was this hole that I didn't know what it was for hiding behind Simons patch.

 

 

From what I can tell it'll be the hole for the top screw of the bung cover.

 

Lucky when I welding my patch in I didn't fill it in yet so I have a factory reference for the rest.

 

The patch went in pretty well...

 

 

Just some slight tidying up and what not, or so I thought until I fit up the replacement quarter.

 

 

That's what happens when you rush making up a patch I guess.  Take two patch is almost ready to go in.

[308 Sunbird]

Keep at it Greg, good detective work on the drain hole placement. I'm pretty sure your last repair guy wouldn't have

bothered to re-do that patch, the old girl wont know herself.

[mugginz]

So finally got some time on the car.

 

First I'd like to thank arrimar for the heads up on the right hose for here --->

 

 

Mackay CH942 is the right part.  I did take off 1 cm from each end for a perfect fit with no static stress in the hose.  It's not a common hose so for those running the old intake manifolds it might pay to have one on the shelf for a rainy day.

 

 

Remade the inner wheel well section but this time correctly.

 

 

 

Should get it welded in tomorrow so I can adjust the Rare Spares replacement quarter section and get it fitted.  They need a decent amount of correction in order to fit properly but it beats starting from scratch.

[mugginz]

The concept known as the law of the instrument, otherwise known as the law of the hammer...

 

From wikipedia:

"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."

 

 

 

if the only tool you have is a hammer,

 

 

 

 

 

 

to treat everything as if it were a nail.

 

 

 

 

 

Once the countersunk screws go in and the whole thing is wrapped in leather it'll hopefully look fine.

[mugginz]

Was wondering how to go about making a new LSD diff tag when I came across these
 

 
Not exactly the same fonts as the factory tag but  close enough and saves a lot of work.

[mugginz]

It looks like a HQ Monaro one to me not a LH SL/R one so probably won't fit perfectly as they are different shapes along the bottom where they sit on the floor due to different floor shape as well as other differences, cheers Aaron.

 

 

Yeh, my car was one of the earlier ones that came with a HQ console.  Made the rear so that it maps to the Torana hump.

 

Also modded the shifter so that reverse doesn't require so much left hand travel which works better with this console.

 

I picked up this console pretty cheap cause the rear was so badly smashed.  The prices for good second hand ones are a bit much and Rares repro ones don't have the recess so went this way.  I might pick up the leather this week to get a start on that.

[76lxhatch]

Nice work on the console end piece, nothing wrong with that!

[mugginz]

Thanks 76lxhatch.

 

 

Test fitted today with the modded auto shifter surround that I made into a manual one with a Momo leather boot.  MMMmmmmm.  Love the smell of leather.

 

[Shiney005]

It's good to see this one still progressing Greg. Console repair looks mint.

Can you tell me what month the car is? I would like to get a handle on how long those consoles were around for.

 

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[mugginz]

It's good to see this one still progressing Greg. Console repair looks mint.

Can you tell me what month the car is? I would like to get a handle on how long those consoles were around for.

 

I'm not sure of which month in '74 at the moment.  Got some info chasing to do.  This thread is the one where I was told that the car would've had a HQ console not a Torana one. -> http://www.gmh-toran...s-this-bracket/

[Indy Orange]

That console looks the same that was in my HJGTS only black.

[mugginz]

As far as my photos go, I'm hosting them on my own website as I never really trusted photobucket cause it didn't have a viable business model when everything was free and when it hit the fan i was pretty glad not to have photos with them.

I think you can upload photos to this forum somehow though. Not really sure.

[mugginz]

I’m pretty sure the half consoles ended April 74, probably around the same time as the mph/kph speedos.

 

Did these speedos move to a KPH only dial before they went with the yellow ones?