412 resto

plumcrazee · Post by **plumcrazee** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 4:21 pm

well last night and to night have been productive i finaly got all the rear suspention back together and cleaned and unlocked the driveshaft cvs and repacked them and got thw wheels back on so today was turn her round

and get her back in the garage for phase 2 lol

so with the front and back wings removed it all looks suprisingly the same as the other side. all the same areas looks bad except the sill dosent look to bad at the mo

poked a screwdriver throught some parts lol so will have to see what happens when the grinders starts up in the next day or so

plumcrazee · Post by **plumcrazee** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 3:55 pm

well started the grinder up today and what can i say its the same as the other side was hopeing to be better but hey ho what can you do lol

the rear chassis section cut out

and the rear inner wing cut ready

rear quarter opend up like a can of worms

as the other side an new sill fitted but never removed the old one

the rear suspension suport not looking to good

and the sill bottom

more pics when i get to do some more

plumcrazee · Post by **plumcrazee** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:26 pm

right done a bit tonight

the rear chassis leg

and bottom chassis leg

plumcrazee · Post by **plumcrazee** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 4:39 pm

tonight i have been cutting out more and cleaning up the underside of the rear wing

dident expect to have to go this high top of the inner wing rused throught

then the nice cleaned underside

and the old repair thats been done (dont know weather to cut it out and check its all ok)

more soon

Wally · Post by **Wally** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:50 am

Your a brave man!

plumcrazee · Post by **plumcrazee** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 4:49 pm

or just stupid lol

kps70 · Post by **kps70** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:45 am

wow - you've done so much in such a short time. Makes my efforts look pathetic and I've been doing mine for 3 years! Keep going and I'll look forward to seeing it back on the road.
Kieron

plumcrazee · Post by **plumcrazee** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:42 pm

kps70 wrote:wow - you've done so much in such a short time. Makes my efforts look pathetic and I've been doing mine for 3 years! Keep going and I'll look forward to seeing it back on the road.
Kieron

cheers mate i have some pics to post tonight from the last 2 nights of work

plumcrazee · Post by **plumcrazee** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:46 pm

right the last few nights work been welding in some new steel

the rear inner quarter being plated in again had to make this from 2 old wings to get the profile

mostly filled in

the rear quarter with the tray back in

a trial fit of the rear wing

the top of the inner wing gets new metal

and gets seamsealed and zincprimerd on the inside

and the rear top quarter goes back in

had some good news today as found a good used rear a arm as mine are shot cheers volksfarmers

more tomorrow

plumcrazee · Post by **plumcrazee** » Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:04 am

right lasts nightwork consited og cutting and cutting the rear chassis leg that had been welded up badly with some plates just pushed into the chassis then just underseald so quite bad realy

so enden up with this last night

getting bored of finding new bad areas know lol

raygreenwood · Post by **raygreenwood** » Fri Aug 28, 2009 12:51 pm

Nice work brave man.....jeeeeez...was that poor car assembled by Lucas electronics?

At least it is a manual transmission model. That alone is worth saving. Ray

plumcrazee · Post by **plumcrazee** » Mon Sep 07, 2009 4:47 pm

right then guys have done much for the past week with work and a hangover from hell stoped me playing yesterday so had few hours on it tonight and done the rear chassis leg there is 3 layers/skins to this so took longer than thought

shock mount inner skin done

middle skin done

and outer skin finished with sone of the chassis leg repaired

more tomorrow

kps70 · Post by **kps70** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 10:08 am

Don't you ever sleep?!
This is amazing progress. When do think you'll finish it all?

plumcrazee · Post by **plumcrazee** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 10:19 am

kps70 wrote:Don't you ever sleep?! This is amazing progress. When do think you'll finish it all?

hi mate sleep whats that lol. I would like to think about 4 weeks more welding and filling then mot it and use it for a few weeks then im going to respay it

plumcrazee · Post by **plumcrazee** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 12:54 pm

right then had a good weekend on the car dosent actualy look like i gone far as iver been doing the rear suspension mount

desided to cut the hole section out the car and make a new one

so went from this

to this

then started to fabricate a new one

then got it welded back into the car

some new steel to go round the suspension mount to make up the inner arch

then moved on to replaceing the rear outer arch and reparing it again with old wings to get the profile

then it was time to cut the NOS wing i got as it was for a 411 and not a 412 and as it took 18 months to find i desided to graft the light section and bumper recess in from the original wing

well im the rear is nearly done as it seems like ive been doing the rear arck for ages next is the sill and then the front inner arch