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see for scraping underseal off
if u put the area ur taking off near a heater......or indeeed on a sunny day..........get urself a 1 inch or 2 inch wood chisel................and start scraping
that'll take the most of it off easy enough
then possibly use a wire wheel on yer grinder for the last we tidy up..........but ive done 1 arch on mine without to much hassle
its theraputic even ha ha
I just tried out the wheel on the grinder cleared as much paint in 30 secs as it did take me 30 mins to do before. Cheers for the input. but theraputic, it is not :wtf: lol
Wire wheel brush is way to go.
Time for an update then....
I scrapped the pug 305 runabout
http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/7283/dsc00840oj8.jpg
and gained a F*** Fiesta runabout - it's mint tho, 28k, one lady owner, ffsh, ideal.
http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/8884/dsc00858dd6.jpg
(ignore my dad and his mate)
Then on to the nova, I've prepped the engine bay ready for stitch welding and plating. Also I have been removing more underseal, which is fooking boring but needs to be done. Also as the car now needs to go fast and I have removed the install, I started removing the sound deading, the standard stuff came up a treat! Plus under the passanager side there was a ?1 coin!
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It from 1983 and must of been in there since it was made in Spain, there was noway it could of fallen under there as the sound deading was stuck solid all round it. Only how did a british coin get under there when it was in Spain...?
Once the standard stuff was removed I set about removing ?120 worth of Dynamat, what a bi*ch of a job that is! The stickyess stuff know to man, my mate who was helping actually pulled skin off his finger before it came unstuck.
This is how it looks now:
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One of many piles of sound deading, I'll weight it all afterward and make myself feel better lol
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Part 2 coming soon...
Then I got bored a moved on to investigating the drivers side rear arch which has bugged me since I removed the rub strip as it had a ripple through it. Also when I removed the rear beam the bolt fouled on the body work, so something dodgy has happened at some point. This is what I found:
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It appears a new sill has been fitted at some point, but over the top of the old one, looks a right mess - so new full quater will be ordered as soon as I get a job :roll:
Whilst I was down there with the grinder I thought I'd have a look at the inner arch/chassis leg....
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Oh dear, hopefully an easy repair tho, need to speak to my welder bloke, he's not too happy with how much I want done at the mo (front and rear panels, stitch welded, plated, boot floor repairs, flushing slam panel, rear wiper and plating over the gear stick hole)
Finally I've had a go at making one of these rose jointed gear linkages, as per Dar's guide :thumb:, just need to borrow a pillar dill and tap and thats another job done.
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PS: sorry for the quality of pics, new nokia N95 with the 'best phone camera yet!' - load bollox IMO
Woohoo removing the sound deadening is an amazingly annoying job lol Worth it in the end though. That small hole in the rear arch should be an easy fix, mine were way bigger than that.
Yea, hope so. They look to of been repaired before as well which I wasn't to happy about, I've your going to do a job, do it right! (Unless it's sound deading, then don't press it to hard so you can remove it easier lol)
After taking away more and more underseal in the rear drivers arch, I reliesed the wheel house isn't really attached to the chassis leg that well any more...
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and the spring seat is not looking to happy:
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So I've decided to replace this panel, and whilst I had the grinder in my hand I thought i'd look at the 'bodged' panel, which turned out to be a huge scrape:
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I found these new discoveries quite upsetting as I can't afford to buy the panels atm, so out came the spray cans!
Take one dirty fuel tank, and drain the petrol.
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Next take an angle grider with wire wheel attachment to the metal, and finish cleaning with white spirit.
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Finally add a few coats of silver hammerite and leave to dry for a few hours:
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Whilst waiting for the paint to dry, apply the same or simaler method to other parts:
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Now I feel better
Sorry for sounding like a cook book - think the paint fumes have gone to my head
I suppose I ought to clean up my fuel tank before fitting it!
Incidentally, whats the N95 like? I fancy getting me one.
umm, N95 - confusing I think is the word! took me two days to work out the buttons and im meant to be good at these things lol Didn't help having Sony Ericssons for the pass 5 years tho. Only problems i've had so far; Theres no timer, no light, there's two menus/menu buttons, and it's a bit slow... Everything else is great tho, the camera (or though I thought it was crap) is wicked, videos are perfect as is the sound (rec, phone, mp3), oh the head phones have been designed to fit a moose tho. The screen facing camera isn't great, but unless you video call lots i doubt you'll use it. Battery life is fair, or though being a new phone I haven't stopped playing yet, which eats the battery. Comes with a 1Gb mini SD card (smaller than my thumbnail!) Last thing, you have to look after it, it's not the strongest design.
My dad pointed out the only person that would see my fuel tank would be the person I run over, in which case they probably wont be bothered, but it was a bit rusty and I know its their when im driving around... all in the detail, all these small things add up :thumb: