Make sure any bolts you replace with stainless are up to the job. Stainless bolts/nuts are usually quite brittle
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Make sure any bolts you replace with stainless are up to the job. Stainless bolts/nuts are usually quite brittle
Dude, wire wheel on your grinder. SO much quicker and effective!
Looking good :)
Thats what i've been using today, the arch is mostly done now. Will start the other side tomoz.
Yeah i allways check the strengh of the bolts when i replace them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adam
I have a huge (its 4foot tall) tube of high strengh bolts that have a nickle like silvery finish on them too, that are all 8.8 and above. Came from my dads work from the submarine bit when they moved.. Think i send you bottom pully bolts from that lot..
Spent the last two nights in the wheels arches stripping off all the paint and under seal, to re seal and then paint them properly. Which is eating up alot of time, but i killed the wire bush so that out of the window for the mo.
So i've refitted the std shochs and bits so shes a roller again, and welded over the old wiring loom hole and made a new one. And make the holes a bit better for where they enter the bulk head.
Where the old hole was. Could be seen in the bay.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...smoothing4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...smoothing5.jpg
Also cleaned up and enlarged the hole for the water pipe so this can have a proper gromit in it. You can see the new hole for where the wiring will enter the bay too, right up under the slam pannel.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...smoothing7.jpg
Game its a skim of fiberglass.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...smoothing6.jpg
Now for bed...lol
Good progress.
Going back - I plan to redo it all due to the underseal has started to come away.
Right the bays all finished now that this is done. The wiring comes in above the headlight, the feed wires drop down to it now, insted of around it where it could be seen..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...s/IMG_4660.jpg
Sadly been doing the very boring tack of cleaning all the wheel arches up for paint.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../Archprep2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../Archprep5.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../Archprep7.jpg
But here they are all clean, sadly hiding under the inch deep seam sealer i found the corner of the battrey tray/under the turret had got wet so had rusted so i've cut it out and replaced it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../Archprep6.jpg
Fixed. My weldings getting better but still not great on the thin stuff.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../Archprep4.jpg
Eveythings been rusted with a rust killer/prohibater hence why its purple.
This is good to show how much seam sealer is sprayed over everything and how much is in the battrey tray/bulk head.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...s/Archprep.jpg
Just how Olly, theys been off and the stainless ones have been orderd ;)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...Archprep10.jpg
Gotta do the pass side tomoz, then its all ready to go to the body shop.
Good work cleaning the inner arches up. Going look sweet when all repainted :cool:
Its a long long hatefull job. But i hope they do.
Where is that close up pic from? cant quite make it out?
Getting there mate, lol underseal is ****e!
Scott