auld duffer
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Excellent thread . Great work and as others have said, great attention to detail. Im still reading thrugh the posts but the chassis save was superb.
that was nothing as injuries goAfter the urge to faint or puke or both subsided I carried on.
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That's going to need some work but the door pillar has to come off next.
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The pillar is not bad further up but where the door check thingy attaches it's in a bad way.
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I was going to repair one small area at a time but then I went a bit mad and thought it would be better to cut all the old rusty stuff out so I could offer in the foot, the pillar and the footwell all in one go and hopefully get the best fit. Doing the other side has given me a bit of confidence. I took more and more out and realised that the bulkhead would stay nicely in place even with the footwell and door pillar removed.
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I would never have had the nerve to do this on the other side. But it's done now so I had better get some new bits put in.
Thanks for the kind words.just spent the last hours reading and digesting the restoration and the effort you have put in. Excellent work . Shame about the quality of parts, Im sure they must all be made in the same place as VW camper parts and Hot rod parts, nothing ever seems to fit .. One thing that was confusing me was on the rebuild of the steering idler, how cone the spring doest fire the bushes out when the compression tool is removed and before the cap goes on ?
I'm a bit of big jessie when it comes to injuries. I've been lucky and not had many.that was nothing as injuries go
Well you're doing a great job. I don't mind unbolting things but when it come to welding, I'm a scaredy cat which isn't helped when I see pictures of new parts with holes in the wrong places, that must be very frustrating for you.Morning Col.
I know what you mean. Every time I peel back a layer of metal there's rust so it must be everywhere throughout the whole bulkhead. So the only thing to do is fix it where there's a visible problem and try not to worry about the rest.