Got a couple more hours work done tonight, first job was removing the driver's side vent flap and seal and seeing what horrors lay beneath...I was pleasantly suprised for once, there's a small bit of rot behind the bonnet hinge but that nothing that's not easily fixed!
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The main job I wanted to get done tonight was addressing this:
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It's not pretty so out came the drill and the grinder and it quickly became this:
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I welded a small flange on the new bit of metal that I put in last time to replace the missing bit (no pictures of that) and then cut and started welding in a new piece of steel to fill the hole.
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I need to chop out some of the vent seal channel on the passenger side and a little of the front face between the two vents but that's a job for next time. That's all for now folks.
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The main job I wanted to get done tonight was addressing this:
![](/lz/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1287.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fa626%2Fajb403%2FMobile%2520Uploads%2Fimage_zps1d7d8631.jpg&hash=d6fa87639f6d61c3b2ba0c21ec2de252)
It's not pretty so out came the drill and the grinder and it quickly became this:
![](/lz/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1287.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fa626%2Fajb403%2FMobile%2520Uploads%2Fimage_zps7098be51.jpg&hash=20bd2bcbde9e7e8648855fed1967cf58)
I welded a small flange on the new bit of metal that I put in last time to replace the missing bit (no pictures of that) and then cut and started welding in a new piece of steel to fill the hole.
![](/lz/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1287.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fa626%2Fajb403%2FMobile%2520Uploads%2Fimage_zps68a0ad33.jpg&hash=efbeada5755a89c8c33538b3f048c68a)
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I need to chop out some of the vent seal channel on the passenger side and a little of the front face between the two vents but that's a job for next time. That's all for now folks.