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« Reply #5490 on: January 20, 2013, 07:57:02 PM » |
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Sheesh that took forever! Using a wire wheel on the angle grinder, I took the door outside, well away from the guys working in the 'shop, & stripped the lot off.
These aren't the doors that came with the car. We chopped the originals by 3", to suit the roof chop, but had trouble with the tops of the window frames sagging in the middle & were never happy with them. So I eventually picked up another pair from Ebay for 60 quid, that'd been chopped by 4". The outsides were blown over in black, but had obviously been red before. Under the paint, the filler was up to 20mm thick around the edges, thinning out towards the middle.
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« Reply #5491 on: January 20, 2013, 08:01:29 PM » |
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Carefull it's starting to look like you know what you are doing  Seriously though looking a lot more civilised and less mad max DVLA Swansea vehicle section 0300 790 6802 |
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« Reply #5492 on: January 20, 2013, 08:05:48 PM » |
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More Mad Manky than Mad Max. Thanks Dave.
This is what it was hiding. Not pretty, but considering it's a 60 year old car, we've seen worse. Perfectly fixable by welding in a few repair pieces, but whoever did the deed simply filled the holes with body filler. Can't understand why they skimmed the whole door though as the rest is perfectly sound. Must've taken far more work than just repairing the rot, but I guess if you don't have access to a weldy chap, there's not a lot you can do. I actually bought door repair panels from Pop Browns some time ago, but canibalised the passenger one to make the sill panel & will probably do the same on this side of the cab, so we'll have to just cut strips of fresh steel & let them in where needed.
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« Reply #5493 on: January 20, 2013, 08:19:05 PM » |
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Don't know what was in that red paint, but despite vigorous wire wheeling, it's left the metal tinged with pink, (not very Mad Max). When I'd finished I looked around me to find the crisp white snow of the yard was stained bright red -looked like I'd been clubbing seals. While I was working I felt something fly up & hit me in the face & later inspection revealed it to be a strand of wire from the wheel imbedded in my cheek. Fortunately I'd been wearing safety glasses -& a safety scarf. I'm a trained stunt man -don't try this at home kids.
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« Reply #5494 on: January 20, 2013, 08:20:49 PM » |
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The top of the window frame wasn't a lot better than our attempt -just better disguised.
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« Reply #5495 on: January 20, 2013, 08:23:37 PM » |
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With the light fading, I hung the door back in place. Still needs a slight tweak inwards on the front edge, which we can do when we weld the new hinges on, but nothing like it did before.
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« Reply #5496 on: January 20, 2013, 08:26:25 PM » |
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There's a hole in the front edge of the window frame which has been partially welded over. Strange place for a rust hole, but just about where you might mount a hotrodder's "peep" mirror or possibly blown through when they lowered & rewelded the window frame.
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« Reply #5497 on: January 20, 2013, 08:29:30 PM » |
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I'm tempted to bare metal the other door now, just to see what's underneath.
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« Reply #5498 on: January 20, 2013, 08:37:41 PM » |
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you need a big guard dog around there cos while you been mincing around some assh+le has nicked your mmm sticker off your door
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« Reply #5499 on: January 20, 2013, 09:34:45 PM » |
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« Reply #5500 on: January 20, 2013, 09:53:54 PM » |
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It's not pink, it's ]blood red[/i] I tell you.  The stickers were just temporary for last year's Basingstoke Festival of Transport. Eventually the whole truck will be satin green, (similar to the bonnet), with gloss black mudguards & chassis. Clive, our resident airbrushist, will hopefully eventually spray a black outline version of the logo back on the doors. |
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« Reply #5501 on: January 21, 2013, 09:18:47 AM » |
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« Reply #5502 on: January 21, 2013, 09:22:42 AM » |
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« Reply #5503 on: January 21, 2013, 07:40:17 PM » |
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Thanks Kev.
Loony downloaded one of the forms (I haven't got a printer), & I rang DVLA this afternoon & ordered the other. I'll give you a shout when I've got it.
First day back at work for me today after a week off. So it was mid afternoon before I got to the 'shop. Loon was having a stressful afternoon altering coil over shocks for a Golf -again. Apparently the owner measured 'em wrong.
So I kept out of the way & busied myself making the last of the passenger door fill-in pieces ready for him to tack in place, hopefully tomorrow. Too dark by then to wire wheel the door off so maybe I'll have a go tomorrow.
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« Reply #5504 on: January 21, 2013, 11:30:26 PM » |
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Looks much more like a car with doors on!
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I hate when people compare Lemmy with God, i know he is great but he is not gonna be Lemmy, ever If your Dad hasnt got a beard, you've got two Mums there's no point it lookin' pretty if we can't drive it.
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