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Des Thornton
Member ID: 165599k
Member Status: Free Member Perth, Australia 
Last Login: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
Forum Activity: 2009-06-18 20:16:40 Forum Posts: 2 |
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Posted on: Thursday April 2, 2009
With the patch at the front complete it is time to fit the 'castle rail' (bottom piece) and the inner sill. These are the two main structural components of the bottom side of the car and will support the outside edge of the floor. Fortunately there are some excellent reference points to get the inner sill aligned. At the back it has to mate with the piece of the rear frame component that comes over the wheel arch and at the front there is a small indent in the B post that aligns with - this i...
Posted on: Tuesday March 31, 2009
Now the door gap is reinforced and the floor is out it is time to start sorting out the problems. In the case of this car the first problem was the fact that the front part of fire wall that supports the floor had rotted away so there was nothing to attach the new Castle rail and inner Sill to. So I had to make a patch to cover what had rotted away. I don't have a background in metal fabrication so the patch is not great but it will not be seen so as long as the material is solid all should ...
Posted on: Monday March 30, 2009
As you can see from the previous post the passenger side was in a very bad way (apparently it is the side always against the curb so it is often being driven through water?) The floor was shot (it had been patched and then filled with bondo) and water had been trapped against the sill and rotted it all out i.e. outer sill, center close plate, castle rail and inner sill. This meant that I had to cut out almost the whole side of the car then work my way out again. I did not take a lot of early...
Posted on: Sunday March 29, 2009
I have been trying to bring this 1969 MGB back to life for about four years but it has been a difficult road. I brought the car with the intention of updating may of it pieces with bits from my previous car which was written off in an accident. However, once I started working on the car I realised that it was in a very, very bad way and what started out as a 'cosmetic' update has ended up being a total reconstruction. This shot shows the state of the sill on the passenger side (LHS in Austra...
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