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Originally Posted by Rickshaw
Someone needs to thank 2Diesels for the brilliant work he has done on those Sills and the value of those photos he has posted. So I am congratulating him here. Quite uplifting to see what can be done to keep these motors going - certainly better than giving up and dragging a car off to the breakers as too many do!
Well done and thanks
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It’s nice to receive some recognition for the hard work we put into it.
The thanks are really due to my mate “Negative Phil” who has done a fantastic job of stitching it all together, I couldn’t do that. I’ve had all the exciting stuff like drilling out the 15 billion spotwelds to separate everything.
I bought that car sight unseen during the lockdowns of 2020 & pressed it into service as the 1.8 I was running at the time had waved it’s white flag. I ran the test off it & I kind of bonded with the car. It was during mot preparation the n/s/f jacking point collapsed & almost sealed it’s fate.
If I hadn’t had that mainly rust free write-off shell in my yard, then I don’t think you would be seeing these pics. We basically chopped both sides out of the car & unpicked the necessary panels. We deemed the rear end not to be good enough to keep, so have used a couple of Tom Hobb’s jacking points & rear end sill repair panels & reconstructed part of the inner sill on the n/s using off cuts from the rest of the job.
I have a BRG tourer in the yard which needs its rear ends done, so that will be dragged into the workshop next, once that’s done I think we’ll tackle my ZT 260 which needs a minor repair to the o/s/r sill.
After that it’s the turn of the P5B Coupe which although not horrendous will still need quite a bit of reconstruction.