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[toryman76]

sorry bout the size of the photos... forgot to change them on my camera again...

[toryman76]

LOL! i know... i could soon be the proud owner of a MIG...

yeah the one am replacing it with is slightly bent which annoyed me some what because i didnt realise this until AFTER i had cut them both out... so i have straightened it as best as i could so hopefully the panels line up when its welded in place... *fingers crossed!*

[toryman76]

not as much done to the car as i had hoped for this weekend which is disappointing. dad and i finally got the 253 out of the trailer and on to the stand and in the shed. we also gave it a little squirt with a Karcher (using the tank....) but ran out of degreaser so it didnt come up too clean!

heres a couple of pics:



Leigh

[toryman76]

what have i done.... this is not what i wanted to find... can someone please assist me in what to do to fix this? it is a bit hard to see in the photos but there is in fact rust in the chassis rail...




Any help MUCH appreciated. Leigh

[Neils LX]

Hi
Hows the one on the spare parts car, maybe you could swap them over
Chears Neil

[toryman76]

thanks for the reply Neil.

The beaver panel is fine i am able to swap that over from the parts car.
most of the boot section of that rust i can get from the parts car but the rear quarter section i can't as that too is rusted out on the parts car...
i guess i could cut out the rail from the parts car but will that effect the strength of it in anyway?

Leigh

[toryman76]

heres what im looking at with the spare car... still plenty of rust but no holes appeared when i wire wheeled it. im not happy with the section i removed for the beaver panel so i will be cutting out another section from it.




As you can see the lower quarter is stuffed so i cant use that part of it... what do people think? where should i go from here?

Cheers Leigh

[Neils LX]

Hi
Once welded up should be just as strong as before. You might be able to patch up the rail off you donar car with some more steel and shape it with a hammer and dolly. If you get realy stuck you might have a pannel beater who might do cash jobs after work might be able to help. I feel sorry for you guys having rust, my torry seems to of escaped the dreaded tin worm.
Chears Neil

[toryman76]

thanks for that Neil. I think i will just start "un-picking" it as best as i can and see how i go. im sure there is someone round here who does those sorts of jobs. i actually tried to get in contact with an old friends father who was right into cars and he had done quite a few GTR's last time i saw him which was before he moved a few years ago....
your a lucky man if your car has escaped it!

Thanks Leigh

[Heath]

That section of the chassis rail isn't even really structural metal... or it's not important structural metal anyway. If you get rear ended hard, it's gonna need to be replaced anyway. So it has very little purpose. Fix it so it looks good enough for you to be happy with it, welding it should make it much weaker anyway if it's done half-decently.

I was smart enough to not cut that section of my car out (i missed it by about 50mm lol) so even if it is rusted, I don't have to worry about repairing it.

[Neils LX]

Hi
Heath have you done anymore to your torrie, i havenot seen an update for awhile. I was looking on ebay and theres an old lh the same coulor as yours
Chears Neil

[toryman76]

That section of the chassis rail isn't even really structural metal... or it's not important structural metal anyway. If you get rear ended hard, it's gonna need to be replaced anyway. So it has very little purpose. Fix it so it looks good enough for you to be happy with it, welding it should make it much weaker anyway if it's done half-decently.

I was smart enough to not cut that section of my car out (i missed it by about 50mm lol) so even if it is rusted, I don't have to worry about repairing it.

lol! yeah i really should stop hunting for the stuff... its always FAR worse then what you first expect! things are slow though...

thanks for the replies

[RIM-010]

^ You're better off hunting and finding now, then having it come out of hiding 6 months after you've resprayed...

Tim

[Heath]

haha yeah Neil touched it for the first time in weeks yesterday. Should be out there in the next hour or two again and get some more work out of the way. Still don't know what i'm doing with bodywork... that's the problem. Anyone wanna teach me?

[toryman76]

^^ yeah thats probably a better way of looking at it. i dont like to do things by halves so hopefully when im done it wont need rust repairs for a very long time to come!

^ oh sweet! good to here. yeah bodywork... i have no clue either Heath! so far i have just been making it up as i go along...

[toryman76]

ok so i finally bit the bullet and attacked that rear section with the grinder... a few sections werent accessible by the grinder so a hack saw blade was used... bit of a hack but the rust is gone! it got too dark for me to go out to the spare to cut out the repair section so it will have to wait. heres some pics:






next question is does anyone have a welder they want to lend me?


Leigh

[toryman76]

so after two months of doing nothing on the car i have finally purchased a welder so i can get a move on with the torana. Thanks to Mick (micksgtr) i now have myself a WIA175 amp machine!! Next thing is to organise gas and things will be moving along again! Just a shame i only have one week of uni holidays to go... stupid uni only giving me 3 weeks of holidays...

Anyways ill keep you posted as things start to progress!

Cheers Leigh

Edited by toryman76, 08 July 2007 - 11:50 AM.

[Heath]

I only got two weeks. And one was dedicated to non-car-related activities.

[toryman76]

yeah makes it tough ey!

btw has anyone had any experience with gasless welding of cars? only reason i ask is i got a roll of gasless wire with the welder.

[Heath]

Yes, it's not very good.

[toryman76]

well i went out and set up the welder today and had plans to make a trolley for it.

azza i tip my hat to you if you have managed to do your welding with gasless as i found it impossible to weld thin metal from the torana!! i was just practising on a bit of scrap and i could manage a shitty tack but found it impossible to try and make a continuous weld without burning through. i had the welder set to minimum settings too....

the plan was always to go with gas wire so thats definately what i will be doing, and plus this gasless stuff is bloody messy!!!! its worse then a arc welder!!!! anyways hopefully getting some gas wire tonight 0.6mm and then try and organise gas sometime in the next week, then i should be able to do a bit better.

mind you i did do a bit of welding on some thicker material and the gasless stuff produced a beautiful weld, and i had just randomly set the settings on the machine!

anyone have any ideas on how i should go about making a trolley for the welder?


Cheers

[RIM-010]

anyone have any ideas on how i should go about making a trolley for the welder?

With a welder

Got a pic of the welder? That'll help for ideas for a trolley.

Tim