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Before packing up for the day I made this closing section up for the end of the chassis box to the factory pattern Welded in Once this is cleaned up (next workshop visit) the whole area is then overskined with a plate that comes down to weld in around the lower rear suspension link.

Drummond - one of our fellow Jowett car club members was down from Scotland for an overnight stay - Drum has been around Jowetts heading on for 50 years or so and there are not too many tricks he is not aware of - so with this in mind we put him to good use Drum has a keen knack for rebuilding the quite complex coloumn gear change shafts The shaft was taken apart - refurbished as required - the old one had quite a lot of play in it which makes for a lot of fun when it attempts to select two gears at once

Once rebuilt and set up to take the play out, Keith then soda blasted the externals of the shaft Cleaned up it was then sprayed with a zinc primer So thats one bit of the mechanicals completed and ready for paint - there is a quite a lot of painted metalware within the interior - dashboard / window trims / steering column etc and these will all be repainted along with the column change shaft at later date in the restoration

It's a very busy time of year for thr day job - but I am making some progress - the closing panel was made up for the bottom front of the rear inner wing and the inner face sprayed with a zinc rich weld through primer Welded in Cleaned back - where the two skins meet towards the outer edge I managed to get some good spotwelds in on the panel

Next was to sort the lower N/S D post out - this abuts with the rear outrigger rear side made up and let in

Front section of D post looks ok - but hides yet another bucket of rusted out / overplated metal Using the rear section for reference the front can now be cut out The sill section that abuts the bottom of the D post was also a mess of overplated rust

The end of the sill was sectioned and new metal fabricated / let in Closing sections could now be let in to replicate the factory original seams

The outrigger could now be attached Closing panel fabricated and let in to the outrigger Another area ticked off the endless list of welding & fabrication

Upper sections of the D post had also suffered from the tin worm / previous repairs

Repair areas cut out & welded in