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Re: Early Javelin Restoration
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:50 pm
by Grumpy Northener
Re: Early Javelin Restoration
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:56 pm
by Grumpy Northener
- Plan of attack
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- And after chasing the rust back to sound metal - this is what came out
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Re: Early Javelin Restoration
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:57 pm
by Grumpy Northener
- Floor section fabricated and tacked
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- Welded in / cleaned up
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Re: Early Javelin Restoration
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:02 pm
by Grumpy Northener
- New floor section provides flanges for lower wheelarch to connet to
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- Managed to get the section for the inner wing made up - but it shall have to wait for my next workshop visit for welding in
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Re: Early Javelin Restoration
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:26 pm
by JPB
Phew! I was beginning to withdraw from the regular ration of Javelin bodyshell rebuilding action. Glad to see all is still coming along nicely.
Re: Early Javelin Restoration
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 9:42 pm
by Grumpy Northener
- These little clamps come in really handy when undertaking repair sections like this
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- Just place the pins in the clamp tounges and tighten up
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Re: Early Javelin Restoration
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 9:47 pm
by Grumpy Northener
- Welded / cleaned back - floor pan flange is spot welded to the lower of the repair section - outer wing mounting bracket re welded to completed repair
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- Managed to to obtain a nice fit with the floor repair section
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Re: Early Javelin Restoration
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 9:52 pm
by Grumpy Northener
- Next was a small amount of grot on the cill step adjacent to the A post
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- New section ready for welding
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- Completed
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Re: Early Javelin Restoration
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 10:13 pm
by Grumpy Northener
I had given the outrigger a quick look over before commencing the floor & wheelarch repairs and with exeption of a small section on the very end of it - passed it fit for service - obviously my quick look over - was too quick
- has I got in to it it was was obvious that it was hiding a nest of rust on the inner face
- I originally planned to section it and fabricate a repair - but the deeper I dug the worse it got
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- I already had a complete outrigger supplied by the club (Jowett Car Spares)
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- One dead outrigger
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In my haste I had already welded the repair section for the floor to the old outrigger
So now I had to carefully unpick the welds on the new panel
Re: Early Javelin Restoration
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 10:25 pm
by Grumpy Northener
Keith sandblasted the area that is hidden when the outrigger is in place - I then sprayed the area with a zinc rich primer
- With the primer dry - I sealed any seams that would be awkard to access once the new outrigger was fitted
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Seam sealer was not used when the cars were first built in the early 50's - but it will not prevent me from using it this time around - I will go through and seal the rest of the shell once all the repairs are complete and the shell has been bare metaled
- Trial fit on the outrigger which required a little bit of trimming / reshaping to ensure a good fit
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