Who said they don't rust
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Having picked had my "S" for a week the smile is slipping slightly.
It's booked in for a service and a possible fuel tank replacement (came with the car). Having spent Saturday putting Renovo on the top I was quite pleased with the job. I decided to have a better look underneath than I did when I bought the car. Everything seamed to be going quite well with only a bit of rust (rot) at the rear on the fuel tank strut, Then I tapped the nearside body mount with a spanner and the noise was not of metal but of soft mushy flaky metal. I carried on tapping and found the outrigger around the mounting to be rotten. The rot is confined to about six inches in both directions and the body plate as well. The drivers side is fine.
My options are,
1. Replace only the rotten bit
2. Replace the whole of the nearside outriggers
3. Replace bothsides
It it feasible to replace the outrigger by raising the body, cutting back to good metal and rejoining. How much tollerance is there in the actual dimensions. (are we talking precision work).
Once the body has been unbolted from the chasis are there any points on the bodywork where it can be jacked up from to allow cutting and welding. The welding and metal are no problem as I have a friend who is a fabricator.
Any advice or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
It's booked in for a service and a possible fuel tank replacement (came with the car). Having spent Saturday putting Renovo on the top I was quite pleased with the job. I decided to have a better look underneath than I did when I bought the car. Everything seamed to be going quite well with only a bit of rust (rot) at the rear on the fuel tank strut, Then I tapped the nearside body mount with a spanner and the noise was not of metal but of soft mushy flaky metal. I carried on tapping and found the outrigger around the mounting to be rotten. The rot is confined to about six inches in both directions and the body plate as well. The drivers side is fine.
My options are,
1. Replace only the rotten bit
2. Replace the whole of the nearside outriggers
3. Replace bothsides
It it feasible to replace the outrigger by raising the body, cutting back to good metal and rejoining. How much tollerance is there in the actual dimensions. (are we talking precision work).
Once the body has been unbolted from the chasis are there any points on the bodywork where it can be jacked up from to allow cutting and welding. The welding and metal are no problem as I have a friend who is a fabricator.
Any advice or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Use the search facility there are a lot of posts on this topic, to start you off try this one
www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?f=11&h=&t=54362
My post on this thread gives you two good references.
Good Luck
www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?f=11&h=&t=54362
My post on this thread gives you two good references.
Good Luck
recently done the old body off dance with mine.if you can and the rest of the chassis is pretty sound then jack it. the grp where the seats are bolted through ia pretty thin so go for bits that have corners as it seems to be thicker there. also spread the weight with say plywood on the jacks. depends how u look at it but if you are at the stage where the body can be jacked then it can be totally removed alowing inspection and renovation of the rest of the chassis,big job though,took nine months to do mine!! think its a suck it an see, once u have jacked it then you can see how bad it is. check the top of the outriggers as they seem to be a bad spot. you cant get to this bit until the body is up.
best of luck.cheers
edited to say; before removing the rotten bits take loads of reference measurements to get things back in the right place.
>> Edited by kev s3 on Monday 26th April 18:55
best of luck.cheers
edited to say; before removing the rotten bits take loads of reference measurements to get things back in the right place.
>> Edited by kev s3 on Monday 26th April 18:55
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