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How bad does this look? Really struggled down the leftmost side where the old chassis was trying to blow through in a few places. Tested it all afterwards with a hammer and it seems absolutely solid!

Il get some photos when I'm out later today. It's just a buzz box im using. Something a bit better would be a nice luxury but Il make do with this for just now. I'm using 2.5mm rods and sitting at about 85amps, sound about right? seem to be getting decent enough welds, not that neat but solid...

Started repairing the chassis this evening, there was a slight area of corrosion where the new half Chassis I've got is going to over lap and be welded to, so I cut out this this eve and made a start on patching back in with 3mm steel. I ra put of time but will grind it back tomorrow and finish...

Cheers for that!! Would have been a good help. Can't wait to have her going again! It won't be a quick project as I only can get a couple of hours here and there although that gives me plenty of time In between to look up how to go about different aspects etc. First time doing any mechanical...

Thanks for your input, to be honest the front half of chassis really isn't that bad apart from one dumb iron that needs a small repair, rest sounds really solid when I've given it the old hammer test. I understand your concern going by the photos of the rear! What a mess. I have time and steel...

That's true. Probably best not then and it means I can give them a good hose out of debris now and then to keep them clean.

Brilliant! Thanks for adding that image of the parts too, I think I have some 5mm bar about, will make up some clamps for the ones that are missing /broken. Once I clean them and give them a good undercoat and paint, would you smear them with grease before Reassembling?

Thanks guys for the advice! Managed to get them off the axle tonight. Wow! What a state.. I'm Keen to keep it as original as possible and reuse where possible but I also understand there is no point in using something that's shot! What do you think of these? When it comes to the chassis I'm...

If possible of you think I could salvage the springs and just wire brush/grinder on them then oil them really well? Or would I be able to paint them? Cheers

The half chassis I received looks like it buts up against the mid crossmember, il double check of a drawing but I'm assuming if butt this tight up to cross member it will be the correct set up. I've never heard of the electrolysis route for cleaning, il need to look into that. I was just. going...

Cheers, yeah il have to weld parts of the dumb irons so will attempt to keep the stamped number in situ. At this rate it will be the only part of original chassis. I understand most would just replace with new replacement galv chassis but a mixture of funds, space and time won't allow. I only...

Been busy that last week or so and managed to strip the roof , side panels and tub off. The rear cross member fell off when I cut through a couple of stuck bolts in the tub to crossmember brackets. The chassis is really bad. The rear half chassis arrived the other day so that's my next job once...

Managed to get my panel lights working!! It was a combination of a dodgy switch and also bad earthing through the binnacle. Cleaned it all up and had a footer about with the switch and got them working. It would appear that I also have a bad oil pressure sensor, il get that replaced soon too...

Thanks everyone, I will try earthing casin later and see if that works. Will get into the get into the contacts with cleaner also and try and get better connections. Will change over the connection blocks too at a later time once I get these couple of issues sorted. Reluctant to start changing...

So it's a petrol and at the bottom of speedo cluster there is the oil pressure light, main beam light and cold start. At moment the only one that works out of those three is the main beam lights. When I switch the panel light switch nothing happens and when I swapped out the bulbs, they still...

Hi everyone, Im working through my new series 2a and trying to rectify faults as I go. When I turn ignition on I only get charge light coming on, no oil pressure or cold start light come on, the indicator lamp works when I use indicators and also the headlight blue light works. The panel lights...

Great thanks. So for the sake of the cheap cost of a replacement would you just replace? Thinking of it, I don't get any lights on apart from charge light, should I be checking anything else ? Thanks

So I did a full oil change tonight with new filter installed last night after I had drained down yesterday. Filled up with 6ltrs and then gave the car a quick turn over for 15mins to get oil moving through engine and to check for leaks. (There were none thankfully) bit one thing I wanted to...

Yeah that's it. I thought mines was faulty but it turns out because I hadn't bled brakes through it was operating. Got it working last night. Just the reverse lights to get working next!

Yeah ilmget a photo later at some point. It was down on chassis rail adjacent to the oil filter, about 8inchs accross from it.