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[fenz]

SMOOOOOOOOOTH is nice.............

SMOOOOOOOOOTH is nice.............

[Bart]

cheeky boy.

Didnt know you couldnt chop out the firewall. bummer

[GML-31]

car will have standard hubcaps although slightly wider rims

???? this one of yours?>
or you know the owner
comon fess up

although i went to victoria to buy it, its my son-in-laws

[dirtbag]

car will have standard hubcaps although slightly wider rims

???? this one of yours?>
or you know the owner
comon fess up

although i went to victoria to buy it, its my son-in-laws

Actually, I've decided it's mine now : )


I welded the new inner piece on at the rear.







Just to prove how much I love HK monaros, I gave myself a massive case of wankers cramp! Hurt too!

[fenz]

Owww......change hands heheh

[Bart]

Did ya stick ya hand in the stretcher?

[dirtbag]

Nah, my fat clump hands wont fit in a stretcher : )

Here's what it looked like yesterday.





It's swell : )

[wot179]

That'll feel like someone else.

[dirtbag]

Thanks John.

The rust converter I use is "Plus" brand. I've been using it for years and haven't had any dramas with it.

[308mate]

Just looked through a bunch of your threads here dude an the the effort you have put into these threads is awesome! (not to mention the cars)

I've broken my collar bone so I've got time to look at these things....

Question : have you ever folded up the section where a panelvan roof meets the ute tray sides (if u know what I mean...), how bout gutters? Ever folded em or just graft?

Here's some photos of my dilemma.






Love ur choice of work'n music. Bit partial to the heavier end of the spectrum myself.

Cheers, Metal up your arse \m/

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[dirtbag]

G'day Scott. Bugger about your collarbone mate! At least there's plenty of good threads on this site to look through. Random picture thread is a good one : )


As for your rust issues, folding up the new pieces isn't a problem. For roof gutters that are really stuffed it's usually easier to cut the gutters off, fix the rust then make and weld on new gutters over the top.

Where the van roof sits on top of the ute quarters was just a giant stuff up on holdens part. If I ever get another van and it has rust there, I'd cut the whole lot out and make a new strip that goes from the panel under the windows to the top of the quarter and be rid of that seam altogether. But that's just me : )

Good luck with it. Post pics!

Cheers.

Edited by dirtbag, 09 July 2011 - 02:58 PM.

[dirtbag]

I did a bit more to the monaro today.


I rust converted the inner panel.





I drilled a row of holes along the lower edge so I can plug weld it to the new inner piece I fitted.

I then lined it up and got some tacks on it.





All the plug welding done.





Then lots of welding along the top and sides and it's all done.









Of course it copped some rust converter : )





Next job was chopping the passengers side off.




There's some goodies in here : )








How nice is this double overlap? : )




Here's a couple of perfect panels : )








There's a little bit of rust around the side window, but no worse than the other side.





I also cut the inner lip off that makes the outer skin rust.





That's all I did on this one today.

[RBTORY]

Hey Tim looked through a few of your threads and i like your work, and thanks for posting it up takes a bit of effort to make it to the computer cheers Andrew

[dirtbag]

Thanks Andrew.

I did a bit more to the monaro again.


First fun job was to strip the inside back to bare metal.





I found a couple of rust spots. Nothing out of the ordinary though.




I'd already cut a piece off in this next pic, so I could check inside. The piece I cut off was rusted anyway.





There's the same bit of rust as on the other side in the roof.





You can see where a gerbil or something has been trying to escape : )





Then I started chopping bits out.





Here's the bottom of the wheel well fixed. The panel with the hole I cut in it next to the wheel well will be totally removed, as the other end of it is rusty so it's not worth patching it.





Here's the new bit welded in.





The lower corner of the door jam was knackered too so I chopped it off.





New piece.





Here's the piece I cut out of the end of the sill replaced.





I get asked a lot what rust converter I use. This is it.





So I used it on the new bits as usual.







Next up was the bit of rust in the roof.

I cut the bad bit out and cleaned and rust converted inside.





New bit glued in.





A couple of little bits of rust in the top of the door jam.




Welded up. These bits are only tiny, but equally annoying : )





All the rust converted bits were then sanded ready for etch priming.




Coloured in.









That's it : )

[dirtbag]

Thanks mate : ) The firewall will need a little bit of filler around the edges but I think it will look good when it's all done and the inner guards smoothed out as well.

[dirtbag]

Hiya, Yes a spot welder would be nice, but I've never priced one. Do you know how much they are? Single phase?

[dirtbag]

Yeah, a bit out of my price range at the moment. Trying to recover from building the new house!

Plus I'm going to build a mezanine in the workshop in the next week or two. Just the timber alone was nearly $2000!!

[dirtbag]

Haha no need. That 4 litre bottle will do 4 or 5 cars easily. It goes a long way!

[fenz]

How do you apply it????spray or brush.