Recent content by GSF 109

One disappointing point of the repair panel is that they don’t have return lips on the front faces to replicate the original , and that just annoys me! So, I cut some flat steel plate to size and bent it to shape and after some faffing around welded it. I managed to melt the raw edge into the...

Looks a bit tidier now.

I removed the old hasp that held the bonnet down cleaned up the holes and welded them up. I’m not planning on using it again!

Luckily I had some steel angle leftover from chassis repairs. It was perfect to recreate the original strengthener with some trimming and drilling. Unfortunately the original was too far gone for reuse, otherwise it would have made sense to try and refit it. After drilling plug weld holes on...

I carefully drilled off the old section, then chiselled it off using a slitting chisel. After a tidy up I drilled the new metal ready for plug welds. After a few tweaks, I welded the rear and front. It looks easy, but I can guarantee it was not! It was twisting all over the place 😀

After carefully measuring the new repair panel, I cut the old remnants of the lower panel off. Incidentally, I never realised that there was a reinforcement on the old panel but not on the new one….

Okay, made a start on the front panel today. I had a look at others for sale and mine didn’t seem too bad considering. I also had a repair panel, so it was definitely viable. After drilling the bonnet landing strip rivets and unbolting everything else, I could see the challenge ahead!

Next up, I had a look at the radiator front panel, and it’s a lot more ropey that I remembered. Not sure where I can go with this! I have a repair section for it, so I guess that would be a start!

After walking away from the strip down yesterday, I went back for more today….😀. Next up, I removed all the mounting brackets, then tried the the rear window glazing strips again. The tiny cross head screws were burred over and were impossible to remove, so I had to drill the heads off then...

I fitted a hybrid 110 / discovery 1 system to my 109 in my build thread. It can be done but the job shouldn’t be taken lightly. You need to be a decent welder and get the measurements right. Sounds obvious I know. 😀 Worth doing though, if you think you need it and have the time to do it. Lots of...

Started stripping one of the rear upper body sides, and it was not a job I was looking forward to! The first issue was that the sliding channels were so bad that I couldn’t slide the windows to get access to the fixing screws. I had to resort to bending the edge of the channel over then...

Cheers - hopefully your panel gaps were better than mine 😂

Moved over to the other side and fitted the driver’s side floor. Sounds easy, but took a fair bit of fettling to get it to sit properly! Anyway, I got it in and sealed it with dum dum the same as the other side. After that nightmare, I thought I would brave trial fitting the driver side front...

Thanks - still seems like a mountain of work to go, but progress is progress as they say 😀….

I thought I would try a front door on, so fitted the hinges and gave it a try. As you can see it’s a mile out! I expected this, but not by that much…. Anyway, it could do with the bulkhead aligning as the chassis bracket is not fitted. I’ll try and get it better next time 😊