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Offline Mr Alford

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Project eliminate rust (the home straight)
« on: August 17, 2008, 22:40:32 »
well heres a few pictures of my passenger footwell that me and the father in law tackled today, ive done the drivers side it was unpleasant but this one had a suprise in the footwell i dont have  aphoto of the finished footwell but will be up tmrw

heres the footwell




heres the wheel arch after ive ground out the rust and cut it out



just tacking




heres the beast and another new toy that is a must have if u have a land rover especially a air blow gun





all welded up





all sealed

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Re: Project eliminate rust (the home straight)
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2008, 20:20:04 »
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Re: Project eliminate rust (the home straight)
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2008, 20:33:02 »
Nice work my inner wings are not in the best shape will have to sort them sooner or later :)

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Re: Project eliminate rust (the home straight)
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2008, 11:12:35 »
Good job there mate, have you checked the body mounts all round yet?

I had to replace all 10 of them!
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Re: Project eliminate rust (the home straight)
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2008, 12:23:33 »
Good job there mate, have you checked the body mounts all round yet?

I had to replace all 10 of them!


na its only the front 2
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Re: Project eliminate rust (the home straight)
« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2008, 16:35:31 »
Good job there mate, have you checked the body mounts all round yet?

I had to replace all 10 of them!


Could you tell me where you got the replacement mount's from?

Thanks
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Re: Project eliminate rust (the home straight)
« Reply #6 on: August 20, 2008, 17:41:15 »
Good job there mate, have you checked the body mounts all round yet?

I had to replace all 10 of them!


Could you tell me where you got the replacement mount's from?

Thanks


i bought the steel and made them!
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Re: Project eliminate rust (the home straight)
« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2008, 14:49:08 »
Hello John

I bought some 120x60x5mm box sextion and split it, I made 'L' shaped brackets and reinforced the sides of them, with a hole through on the drill press.

I was all faily straight forward just a Royal PITA
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Re: Project eliminate rust (the home straight)
« Reply #8 on: August 28, 2008, 21:18:07 »
good one mr a .

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Re: Project eliminate rust (the home straight)
« Reply #9 on: August 29, 2008, 11:44:06 »
good welding mate not being funny with this comment as a welder i would say for future reference cut more of the rust out it will give a better finnish to weld to but good job
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Re: Project eliminate rust (the home straight)
« Reply #10 on: September 01, 2008, 17:49:32 »
good welding mate not being funny with this comment as a welder i would say for future reference cut more of the rust out it will give a better finnish to weld to but good job


i know what ur saying but at the same time id probably cut the whole car up if that was the case
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