once I had most of the welding repairs done I moved on to getting the car ready for primer, the lad a bought the car from had bought it from an old guy, in his attempts to stop the car from rusting he had undersealed under the bonnet and in the engine bay! it was bloody everywhere, also he had applied some sort of varnish to the door, bonnet and tailgate shuts, I tried everything to remove it but it wouldn't budge, I tried to flat it with 400 flatting paper, it would flat down ok, then just on the edges where I tried to feather it in, it would flake up and peel off, I decided I wasn't going to risk painting over this so set to bare metaling the areas, by hand!! what a ******* of a job
once down to bare metal the areas were etch primed
the one thing I wasn't happy with the car when I bought it, something ive seen on a few non sunroof model novas is that it had a very shallow dip in the roof, from one side to the other, it wasn't something I was going to attempt to fill, so thought it would be something id have to live with,
I saw one of these paint-less dent removal guys at a garage I deliver to, so thought id pick his brains to see if theres anything I could do about this, he said it was likely to be where the roof skin is bonded on to the car theres a support beem going from 1 side to the other, chances are that the glue had dried up and shrunk over the years pulling in the roof skin, I got home that evening eager to see if the guy was right in what he was saying, I could feel the support bar through the headlining, right where this wobble was, I had a read of bazils how to remove the headlining guide and decided to have a bash at it, I didn't really plan to remove the headlining as ive heard horror stories about this, but needs must...
the offending item....
so set to cutting the glue with a hacksaw blade
to my delight the roof popped up about 3-5mm and was straight, I then re glued it with some stikaflex
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