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shaunmza (62)in Build-It • 2 days ago
Sorting out the rust lip for the door rubber
Moving further up the door pillar I started by cutting out rust from the joint where the door seal goes onto. This took some grinding and sanding to get all of the rust off.…
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shaunmza (62)in Build-It • 3 days ago
Tidying up the lip for the door rubber
Even though I did not get much. done, the curve piece I welded in is the last part to go on to the outer sill before I try and coat the inside from back to front in paint, still…
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shaunmza (62)in Build-It • 5 days ago
A little step forward on the passenger side outer sill
It's funny how long it takes to do simple things when you are trying to squeeze it in after work and between load shedding. Finally though, 3 parts are 1, still some work to be…
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shaunmza (62)in Build-It • 7 days ago
Replicating fixes from the driver side to the passenger side
Not quite a copy paste of the drivers side, there is less rust to cut out on the passenger side, I tried to limit the cutting to parts where the rust was the worst. Still a bit…
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shaunmza (62)in Build-It • 8 days ago
Closing up the lower front door opening
Some more rust cut out and replaced with new metal. The lip on the sill where the door rubber goes was pretty rusted, so I cut the inner and outer parts off, then welded back a…
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shaunmza (62)in Build-It • 9 days ago
Checking the fit of the fender
Though it looked ready to weld on, there were a number of things to be done before I can weld the closing piece in permanently. The section where the fender was sorted out by…
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shaunmza (62)in Build-It • 10 days ago
Many pieces become one for the Ford Cortina
Quite a bit of work was done to close up the front of the sill. Piece by piece I tack welded bits on then shaped them in situ, checking against lines drawn on my paper templates…
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shaunmza (62)in Build-It • 11 days ago
More bending and welding to make a piece to close up the sill
Work started on making up the part to close up the front of the sill, starting on the most 'flat' piece. I was initially going to cut only the flat part with a bit extra to…
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shaunmza (62)in Build-It • 12 days ago
Getting started on closing up the front of the sill on the Cortina
I don't have a bead roller or an english wheel, nor have I ever worked with them so this was never going to be done as a single piece 🙂 I started with the smallest and…
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shaunmza (62)in Build-It • 13 days ago
Cutting rust from the Ford's outer sill and replacing part of it
Moving up from the floor I got stuck into the front of the right hand side door opening. As can be seen from the photos, there was a lot rusted away. I had hoped to only have…
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shaunmza (62)in Build-It • 14 days ago
Finishing up the passenger floor
Unfortunately I did not take photos but I bent up a piece to close the floor up and welded it in. Then I cut a paper template and used that to make a piece to close up the…
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shaunmza (62)in Build-It • 15 days ago
Closing up the passenger footwell and cutting more of the floor out
A small piece was made to close up the footwell and I spent a bit of time grinding the welds down. Then I moved rearwards and started cutting out the rusted parts. Where the…
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shaunmza (62)in Build-It • 16 days ago
First steps to close up the passenger footwell with fresh metal
With a lot less metal to replace and the experience from having done the drivers side, I was able to make pretty quick work of the front section of the floor. My homemade…
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shaunmza (62)in Build-It • 17 days ago
Getting started on the rust repair on the passenger side floor
After patching up some smaller rust spots I moved to the passenger side. From far it looks ok but the floor and sills have been bashed in to the point where the metal actually…
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shaunmza (62)in Build-It • 18 days ago
Closing up the rear and cutting the front out of the drivers side footwell
Finally I managed to finish off the rear part of the drivers side. Then I moved onto the footwell, where there was a large rusty patch as the floor transitions up into the…
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shaunmza (62)in Build-It • 2 months ago
Treating rust and welding in some fresh steel on my Ford Cotinas floor
The metal was treated with a rust converter and then a coat of provonite. I made a template for the inner sill from paper, then transferred that to some steel and welded it in.…
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shaunmza (62)in Build-It • 2 months ago
Fixing the seatbelt mounting point and cutting out more of the floor
After having cut the old seat belt tensioner bracket off I drilled some holes so that I could weld it back from inside the car. I managed to get the nut and stuck bolt out of the…
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shaunmza (62)in Build-It • 2 months ago
Welding part of the floor in to the Cortina
After a break I got back to the Cortina and actually started welding parts of the floor back in. Roughly 3/4 of the floor has been replaced on the drivers side, with some rust…
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shaunmza (62)in Build-It • 3 months ago
Hammer forming a hole for the Cortinas floor
With the front part of the drivers side floor almost done, there is one more thing to add, a hole! I am not sure of the exact purpose this depression and hole serves but I…
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shaunmza (62)in PhotoFeed • 3 months ago
Panoramic via of just outside my small town
On a beautiful clear day, you can see for many kilometers. This was taken at one of the many lay-by's on the road leading to the Swaziland border. On the left is the suburb…
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