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[76lxhatch]

Sweet, making good progress

[UCANG]

Not much to show. Both front guards/ floorpan and boot seam sealed.
Body deadener has been applied to the front inner guards.
Half of the underneath of the car was cleaned and stone guarded also. (I only did half because I dont have a rotisserie!)

I'm organizing the front suspension bushes and balljoints im needing then will work on that next, then bolt it back up to the car.

[torana_nick]

Coming up realy nice mate, how was cleaning the underneath? It's almost to where I am upto and I am dreading it...
What method did you use to clean it?

[UCANG]

Thanks torana nick, it's not hard (depending on condition of your underneath). Thankfully mine was only dusty and a bit oily. I jacked the car up got underneath and scraped all the build up. Then a combination of degreaser and soapy water with a stuff brush and went to town. Then washed it all off and treated it with some rust converter which pretty much aided as a final cleaner (extra insurance I guess, I didn't have surface rust). I then coated it with body deadner. Ill do the back half next.

If my floor pan was in average condition I would of brought out the wire brush on the grinder then went to town that way. Or cleaned it up with rust converter (if light surface rust) and kbs/ por underneath.

Hope that helps, cheers

[UCANG]

Long time since update. Not too much to show, been renovating new house and preparing old house for sale.

First thing for 2013 though, was the purchase of a standard bore 308 trimatic blue. Got it complete for $300. I wanted something so I can rip down and build it myself so this was perfect. Trimatic pattern so I can fit an aussie 4 speed or something along those lines.

 

Next I redid the front end. Ive only got as far as clean, de-spatter, paint, new balljoints and bushes and bolt back to the car. I had to stick the old dirty springs in there so I could bolt the wheels on so it can be rolling to the new house. I still need to finish the steering rack, new shockers and springs, complete the HQ brake conversion - but all in due time.

 

and the last load of pics is it leaving the house. 4 years it came on a trailer in its sad original state, and now its leaving in a somewhat nicer straight state

[sibhs]

Just read your thread Ang, great work and learnt a few more tricks for my build.

 

Once you're in the new house it's time to pull your finger out and get back into it.

 

Love your work.

 

Marty

[UCANG]

welding up some holes

bit of hammer and dolly work down here. Much improved.

other guard, not too bad nick

getting the hang of this hammer and dolly work. Not perfect (im no pro), but much better.

[UCANG]

Bit of a repair needed here

Done

Goodbye antenna hole

Epoxy time!

 

Cheers

[UCANG]

So better keep busy while I don't have a shed at the new house.

 

Started to work on the drivers door (this is the worst, and it needs a whole new skin) So I unpicked it,and cleaned her up.

The skin spot welds onto this bit, as you can see its a bit munty

stupid blur

Inner all cleaned up

That section all fixed

Welded back onto the frame

Epoxy some parts

 

Thanks

[UCANG]

Starting to put some panels on to check gaps and see where i'm at.

[UCANG]

Well, bit of an update is overdue. This year pretty much a write off as the new house renos have been top priority, but still finding time to work on her!

 

Got my new door skins, I decided to go for both sides, Retro rods were so good, i got 2 for the price of one at Rares (pretty much).

Fixed the gap on the hatch lid, sorry this is the only photo i took.

Cleaning and putting some new parts on the steering rack:

Removing skin of other door:

cleaned up ready for epoxy

found rust

Realised that the weather strip mounter needs to be spot welded to the skin first, then attached either side of the door. Makes sense, because with this part left on the door then the skin put on after, will make it very difficult to weld it to that bit of frame and grind down smooth.

other side all cleaned up and zinc primed and welded on

epoxied the inner door frame (and underside edges)

and scuffed the inside of the skins and epoxied. The black coating seemed pretty good, but best to be safe than sorry

[LXdamo]

Nice work there Ang,

Will be like a new car from the inside out when your done!

Sounds like you need to get to and build a shed though!!

[UCANG]

Haha yeah working on it! The garage isn't cutting it I'm afraid. Half way through demolishing a brick pizza oven, because that's where the shed is going!

[LXdamo]

Good work!

The local pizza bar does good enough pizza's without cooking your own.

 

Will have to catch up with you sooner or later and have a look in person.

If you get time call in to my place one afternoon and have a squiz at some progress.Just give us a buzz here first.

[kingsly]

looking solid ang,

[UCANG]

Yeah thanks fellas.

 

And Damo, i'll have to take you up on your offer!

 

Anyway a bit more progress this weekend.

 

So the door skins are on. As you can see in some of the pics I have been trial fitting and getting lines to line up and setting some gaps.

I actually hammer and dollied the edge instead of cutting and welding. I like it.

A bit of temporary zinc primer to stop any flash rusting of my work

[kingsly]

i actually like the look of the fat hotwires under that thing.

[UCANG]

14" ones these are, I've seen heaps of mad torries with restored hotwires ( shiny chrome and black) and they look very good. Bit low and should look good!

[UCANG]

You can see the tape. This is where I need to build up in that area.

Done

Chasing out some highs and lows from the panel beating

Other side

End result. I cleaned up all the zinc spray primer and epoxied my repairs.

 

 

Theres still one more panel left to paint strip, repair and epoxy, and thats the bonnet. But i'm going to do that some other time. My next steps for this build, is the filler work. I'm looking forward to it, as its only been metal work since 2009.

 

I'll keep who evers interested posted.

 

Cheers

[lxsstorana]

Nice Work.