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PostPosted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 9:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And we're off!

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It's a bit cramped with all the bikes and other crap, I have rearranged things a little better now.
the trolly makes working on the shell easy once the wife's honda is outside.

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he bracing I welded inside

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First up, the body mounts

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sorry bad pic.

this is up underneath, looking from the gearbox's view, I didn't know this was here until i pulled the body off, very well hidden.

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and after several days of drilling, banging and swearing

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these are made of thicker metal like the bumper mounts, badly pitted but should be able to be reused after a sand blast.

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and after a quick grind to see what I've got to play with.

cheers!
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 11:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You are on the right way! Wink
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 3:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

body off, the only way!
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 3:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The right and only way... Wink
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 4:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

love build porn, and I have a soft spot for 63's Cool
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 21, 2014 4:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Update time people!
I have been working on the body mounts I've finished the left hand side and am now just about finished on the right.

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I gave everything a quick sandblast

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and primed

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fabbed up some patches

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took quite a lot of welding, had a few gaps to plug, I drilled four holes though the inside panel and used pop rivets to hold the patch in place while I tack it up, I then drilled out the pop rivets and plugged them up with more weld.
The join at the top was the hardest bit, couldn't get clamps in, so I just worked it into place a inch at a time.

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and all smoothed out.

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I've be less than enthusiastic about was finishing the sandblasting on the rear of the body mount panel, it's dirty, hot, shitty job at the best of times and it's just to hot lately, once again the boys across the road sorted it out for me, they have a 400hp industrial sandblaster in a massive shed, prolly took about 2 minutes what took me 6 hours with my shitty little compressor, WIN!

Finished up the left hand side, welded the mount back on and smoothed out, forgot to take many pics for a change, summer hoils is such a mental time of year.

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ground all those evil little spikes off the firewall.

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I did get to spend a whole day on the car during the holidays, so i ripped the right side body mount off in about 3 hour, this took about 3 weeks on the first one.

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this all looks very familiar

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 2:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Started patching up the holes in the bug.

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tack the patch in

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carefully and slowly weld up

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grind weld down

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and primed

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body mount looking a bit better.

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check out those pits

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 4:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That look good progress... Very Happy

Car ready for the Summer?
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 1:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Our summer has just finished, hopefully next summer.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 3:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So this is how I turned this...

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into a patch, starting with a template.


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I screwed up here, The bottom fold is actually alot straighter than that, guess the old template wasn't as accurate as i thought. And that is where the problem is with this shit sometimes, It's not until you actually get the patch to fit ALL the edges and the side of the floor, can you see if they fit correctly. Because I had already cut the shape of the edge when I moved the fold back where it should have been, I had run out of metal, doh! not a problem, just stick some more on!

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and finished

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pop rivits to hold it all in place

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tiz slow going, got to be disciplined and only do two tacks at a time, then cool with air gun on the compressor.
As I do most of this at night once the tank is empty that's it as I try to not keep the whole hood awake.
So I was looking for something else to do the other night, opened the hood and thought hhmmmmm....

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When I had the sandblaster out last I finally blasted the back of the area the water bottle panels attaches to
under where the beam sits.
This will allow me to weld the spare wheel well back together and I'll be able to mount the shell onto a spit of some kind so I can attack the rust in the sills.

but back to the water bottle panel, I'm not planing on using this for the brake fluid res, whether I go duel or not I'll use one of those tanks on top of the MC, also I don't think I bother will the screen washer either and if i do I actually have a brand new tank with built in electric pump off a ford lazer or something, only problem is it's so ugly!

anyway more welding

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all done just needs grinding

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the plan is to mount a fuel pump and filter in here.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 8:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Finished up the rear mount.

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and the inside, come out a bit better than the first side so i must be learning sumfing.


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smoothed out the bottle tray

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started welding it back in

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that fucker is never going to move again!

decided to start working on the fenders.

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on the left is the old fender that was on the bug, the middle one is the holey oval fender and the right on is a 60's fender that I first practiced welding on , filling the horn grill hole and the indicator hole.

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lace work on the oval fenders, the plan is to use the 60's fenders to patch the 50's ones.

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chopping out the crap

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getting there

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I really enjoy this kind of thing!

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not a bad start, needs alot more work, there is a small ding where the two parts meet on the edge of the fender, after I get a few more tacks done hopefully I can smash it into shape.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 6:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow! Nice job. That's an impressive amount of work.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 11:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great work, very impressive and inspirational. You make it look easy. Keep on melting metal!
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 9:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you gentlemen, I've learnt alot and still learning. I really enjoy this work, very satisfying.

got the spare tyre floor welded in last week.

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I think I blew a hole in every single one of these, I think when I drilled the spot welds out all that time ago, I had drilled though about half the bottom layer as well, making the metal very thin, very well stuck together now!

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fender is coming together

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this is the difference between the two fenders.

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this is me trying to hold things together, in the correct place.

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might just pull this off!
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PostPosted: Wed May 14, 2014 9:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been spending as much time as i can in the shed.

got the spare wheel floor ground down.

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another small milestone was welding the horn mount back on, I think this was the very first thing i removed from the shell, many years ago

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good as new!

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got the bastard of a fender welded up

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PostPosted: Wed May 14, 2014 10:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

fender all smoothed out

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looks much better after a bit of hammer work, sorry no pic.

Also did this the other night to check everything was where it should be, all seemed to work okay.

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the main reason was to check the bonnet release tube was working/in the right place etc.

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so I could weld thing back together, seemed to crack at some point.

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welded

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while I was at it I mocked the rest of the front up, had to adjust the bumper mount holes so the rubber seals would fit.

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wow! looks like a vw!

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I've pulled it apart since this, nearly finished welding the front valance back on.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 8:09 pm    Post subject: Wow Reply with quote

Dude,
That is some amazing work. Your thread could not be more helpful unless you were here to do it for me. Your 63 was just like mine is today. Looked very nice from the outside and drives like a champ. Al I was going to do was put in some interior that I redid myself and low and behold, rust EVERYWHERE. Yours look worse than mine but quite a few of the same problems. Turns out the PO was a MASTER at bond work. There is bond where bond doesn't even need to be. He used bond as anchor points for metal screws he put into the wheel wells to attach the fenders. He had the running boards only mounted to the end of the fenders as the board rail was all bond. Put in a roller pedal because the hinge bracket had rotted off. This guy was a real genius. I bought this thing on Ebay and thought I couldn't back out of the sell. I noticed some of the rot when I bought it but there was a lot of old carpet covering most of the rot. Needless to say, I am replacing the pan, heater channels, looking for some donor 65 parts and doing a full resto. BTW I bought The KlassicFab heater channels and they are going to be the nicest new part of this car that there will be. Those thing are awesome and I met Gerson at OCTO in the LBC and he brought them down and saved them for me so I could avoid the $100 shipping fee. Looking forward to making mine as nice as your 63 and learning from your thread. Gotta learn to weld now.
You sent me this thread on my post and it is going to be amazingly helpful.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 10:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hey no problem bro, I'm just glad to help out. Not as rotten as mine? don't speak to soon! Laughing
I've got a lot of help and inspiration from thesamba and other fourms from all around the world, so I'm tying to pay it forward.

this dude is a master
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watch and learn, but be prepared for a long road, the 63 has been off the road 5 years now, it's only the last couple that I've really gotten into it as I learnt more and gotten more confident in cutting up my car!
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 11:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Allmost there! Wink
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 20, 2014 3:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Haha! I wish! still lots to do.
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