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4 hours ago, GaryH said:

'Darn Sarf' !? You need an atlas matey :lol:

By Leighton Buzzard they're already starting to wear flat caps and keep whippets 😉

Ah ha I do own both of those things 😱

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22 minutes ago, Northy said:

Ah ha I do own both of those things 😱

So you're denying the Whippet affliction.............................we have witnesses you know!

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On 17/02/2024 at 22:13, anglophone1 said:

Nothing like a little Portuguese Tart!
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I do like a tart, when I can get my hands on one.

Anyway, regardless whatever borders you lot perceive, it was far enough darn sarf for me, I was starting to feel queasy.  :D

 


I'm back home, not in the land of the righteous because I live in exile in Lincolnshire the land of the ditch diggers but nevertheless, it's good to be back at the ranch.

The weekend darn sarf was mostly lovely apart from the time when I nearly fell over a precipice stopping the granddaughter's 'bouncy ball' from going over the brink.

I was only saved by grabbing hold of a, thankfully firmly rooted, sapling.

The lovely Doctor thought my acrobatics were hilarious and she was seemingly totally devoid of sympathy.

We went out for breakfast to somewhere slightly posher than the cafe I go to back home and they cocked up the order and relieved me of a century for the privilege.

Fat Al didn't even have any sausages but I gave him my hash brown because I'm pretty sure that they are American, so in my mind they should play no part in a 'Full English'.

Fat Al doesn't care where they come from, he will eat anything, except Tesco own brand dog food, he won't touch that.


Meanwhile, back in the tent it was time for to re fix the front extensiony bit that I cut off to aid fitting.

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That thing clamped to the bottom is a piece of copper to back up the weld.

I welded most of the slit up but not the bit underneath, I will wait until the thingmy jig is off for better access.

I also stopped slightly short on the big ex-grommet hole at the top because I was getting close to the tek-screw and I didn't want to weld that in.

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I removed the screw, spot drilled the outer skin then welded both that and finished off the grommet hole.

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Then it was a case of removing the screws one at a time and welding up the holes.

Because of the shape of the rear seat well, I couldn't get a straight run at them with the drill so I used a rotary burr in the die grinder instead.

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It should work ok.

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I did the ones underneath next, one at a time.

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This seems to be the only picture of a hole spot weld drilled through the outer skin.

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I did all three that had screws in them.

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Then I gave them a quick tickle off so I could see what I was doing before I welded up the other two holes.

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The two remaining holes originally had clekos in them when it was on the bench but I didn't really need them when I fitted it.

They were also drilled and plugged up.

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That was where I left it tonight because it started to get cold.

I have the ones that go along the front edge of the axle panel, through the seat base and a few in the 'spare wheel well' to finish off then the thingmy can come off to complete the underside work.


Cheers.


P.S. I never managed to get to a creamy bun shop darn sarf...

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14 hours ago, tea boy said:

P.S. I never managed to get to a creamy bun shop darn sarf...

If you would have said, we would have arranged a Courier.............. 

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Now, where was I before I was rudely interrupted by having to go to work?

Oh yes, I wanted to get the welds through the seat base into the front of the axle panel done.

These here.

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I put a jack with a wooden prop underneath there to support it and tapped down the seat base to make sure there was a tight joint.

In all honesty, it wasn't too bad a fit, despite that section of the seat base having been made in my shed with a hammer and chisel.

I'm sure that, like me, you have seen enough plug welds to last a lifetime.

This one which isn't cleaned off was an extra one that I drilled out and added because I didn't put all the holes back in when I welded in that repair patch ages ago.

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I am going to drill a few more holes and weld them up to strengthen the joint as much as I can but for now I just welded up the holes that I already had.

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I didn't drill the extra holes tonight because I was keen to get out of the cab because my knees were hurting.

I moved onto the ones through the boot next.

I had already done a few to secure it in position.

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Doing the rest turned into a real pain in the backside because as I was working the welder harness kept sticking on the rubber boot seal when I tried to move the torch and it messed up a few of the welds.

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They are all done, after a fashion, but I will have to revisit and tidy them up a bit later on.

The next job is going to be dropping the thingmy jig off and completing the underside welding.

That will not be tomorrow though, because it is quiz night.

Cheers.

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We have had some rain today, it has been horrible.

Oddly though, on my way home the rain was becoming less persistent which is very unusual because it usually gets worse the closer I get.

This, as I'm sure to have mentioned before, is because I live under a cloud.

I dragged the welder down in a slight drizzle as I didn't want the inclemency to interrupt the progress.

First job was to remove the thingmy jig so I can be getting on with the rest of the welding underneath.

I started with this bit, near the left hand trailing arm pocket.

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You can just about see the that lower return of the outer sill in that picture is a bit scabby, I will have to attend to that at some point.

I plugged those four holes up.

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Then I moved onto the upper spring seats.

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It wasn't me who chose those haphazard locations for the plug welds, that was where the original BMW spot welds were for the upper reinforcer which came attached to the new panel but I drilled them off because I retained the original ones already on the car.

They got a clean up with the wire brushy thing in the drill.

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Then they got plugged.

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One of the fun things about overhead welding is that it offers ample opportunities for setting oneself on fire.

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As you can see from the picture above, I was fully prepared for this by wearing two tops and I managed to extinguish the flames before the inferno penetrated the second layer.

With the holes welded and the fire out, I cleaned off the welds.

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I also welded the other spring seat but have yet to clean that up.

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There were a few plugs still to do in the passenger wheel well.

The one with the two clamps around it has a hole in it because that was one of the tek-screw locations.

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This one wasn't on a curved section so it didn't need two separate clamps so I could use the plug weld pliers which have a copper pad in the back jaw.

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That hole to the right was just a hole and was filled with sealer.

I have no idea why it is there so I think that I will just weld it up.

Oh, I also tidied that joiny thing up a bit, now that I could get to it.

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That was as far as I could get tonight because the Doc came home with fish and chips.


Cheers.


P.S.  We were first of the losers in the quiz...

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Good progress Tea Boy you should be cruzin very soon.

Baz

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5 hours ago, Baz said:

Good progress Tea Boy you should be cruzin very soon.

Baz

No no, you have it all wrong. TB is just doing this so he can park it next to his 911 and contemplate what to buy next to take apart :lol:

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12 hours ago, Baz said:

Good progress Tea Boy you should be cruzin very soon.

Baz

 

Cruzin for a bruisin' if I don't hurry up and clear my rubbish off the drive, according to the Doctor.  :D

 

11 hours ago, Beaky said:

No mention of cake....you are slacking!

 

You can be sure that nobody lamenting the lack of cake as much as I am.

 

7 hours ago, Phill said:

No no, you have it all wrong. TB is just doing this so he can park it next to his 911 and contemplate what to buy next to take apart :lol:

 

What a splendid idea, I shall put it to the Doctor...

 

 


I was late home tonight, which is not what we want on a Friday.

It was dark and really cold and I didn't feel like dragging the welder down to the tent.

I do feel guilty if I don't do something so I decided that I would tickle up some of the welds I did yesterday.

Those four near the trailing arm pocket.

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The driver's side spring seat.

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And the passenger side wheel well.

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I also cleaned back some bobbly bits where the welds had penetrated from the inside.

As the world has been remarkably moist recently I thought it a good idea to catch up on a bit of spooge application.

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I did all the bits that I cleaned off tonight.

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Plus some of the bits that were welded from inside previously.

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I hadn't done the inside on the seat base, so that got some too.

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My toes were frozen by this point but at least I have done something.

Maybe I should have brought the welder down, I could have set fire to myself again, that would have warmed me up.


I have to take my daughter's car for the MOT tomorrow, I am hoping that doesn't throw up a list of jobs for me to do.


Cheers.

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Saw this today and thought that it might help with the norf sarf confusion TB

 

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11 minutes ago, PeterK said:

Saw this today and thought that it might help with the norf sarf confusion TB

 

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Funny but spookily true....

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I suppose that I must live in the middle of the north and my daughter lives in the south of the north...

 

22 hours ago, tea boy said:


I have to take my daughter's car for the MOT tomorrow, I am hoping that doesn't throw up a list of jobs for me to do.


Well, the MOT...

It went really well, apart from a number plate light (the unit is U/S), and a brake light.

Oh, there was the seized driver's side front brake caliper and consequential worn brake pads on that side.

The totally shot gearbox mounting is just an added bonus.

But apart from that, it's mint.

I was unable to get the parts today so I spent the afternoon sorting the brakes as best I could by stripping and cleaning everything and freeing off the caliper.

It is 95% better and will keep her going until I get the new bits next week.

The brake light was also booby trapped because the light was full of water which went down my sleeve when I removed the unit.

I dried the light out by the Rayburn whilst I faffed about with the brakes.

It felt like a different car when I test drove it afterwards and I am happy that it is safe to use but it is not 100% so I will get that done ASAP.

That was enough car stuff for one day so the tent remained closed.

Maybe it will be open for business tomorrow, unless there is another banana skin waiting around the corner for me to slip on...


Cheers.

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On 24/02/2024 at 18:50, tea boy said:

 

That was enough car stuff for one day so the tent remained closed.

Maybe it will be open for business tomorrow, unless there is another banana skin waiting around the corner for me to slip on...

 

 


It was a bright but still quite fresh day today.

I was looking forward to being able to work with the tent open because it is so much easier with some natural light on the job.

We were going for breakfast at the cafe but it ended up being brunch by the time my daughter had surfaced.

The dogging car was at the front of the queue so we went in that.

About half way there the brakes started grumbling.

What did I say about banana skins around the corner?

When we got back I decided to have a look.

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Turns out that the dogging car doesn't have pad wear sensors...

I thought it best to strip everything down and clean it to make the job easier when I get the bits but also to check that the calipers were not seized because my life has been consumed by seized brake calipers just recently.

By the time I had done this I had lost all my enthusiasm for working on cars for one day.


It's a conspiracy, man!


Cheers.

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I had a welding job at work this morning, to keep my hand in as I didn't do any at the weekend.

I managed to get a load of totally unexciting car bits whilst I was out today so when I got home I sorted out The Dogging car.

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I did it by torch light, like a stage rally service stop.

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The lovely Doctor is delighted that she is now able to go dogging whenever she likes once more.

As a reward, she made me a bacon and egg sandwich.

Fat Al was less delighted because he isn't that keen on either going in the car nor does he like walking.

He was even more upset that he didn't get a bacon and egg sandwich.

He's obsessed with his gut.

I also managed to get most of the bits for the nipper's car as well.

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The pressure is off on that for a while because she isn't coming back home for a couple of weeks so maybe the BMW will be able to get a look-in soon.


Cheers.

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Can you believe it? 

I don't have to work on anybody else's car today, yay!

I'm not sure that I really believe it myself.

I don't know what it has been like where you are in the world but I have been really cold today and I just couldn't get warm.

I was seriously considering covering myself in deep heat and getting up against a radiator when I got home but that won't get the job done.

I dug out some thermal underwear and ventured out into the tent.

I still have some more welding to do to finish off securing the axle panel but that is pretty boring so I decided to do something else.

I am going to fit the internal reinforcing brace.

Because it is internal, I need to cut out a section of the boot.

First thing is wire wheeling out the seam sealer.

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This exposes a couple of factory mig welds on each side.

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I ground them off with a little disc in the Dremel.

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This is the area that I need to open up.

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I marked the cut line with a felt pen.

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I then went at it very carefully with the grinder along the centre curved bit and with a small disc in the dremel for the edges.

I was incredibly nervous about this because I didn't want to put the cutting disc through the new axle panel below.

I managed to remove it without any collateral damage, which I was very pleased about.

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Because I was being over cautious, the whole procedure took me about two hours.

That was enough for me because, despite my thermals, I was starting to feel the cold again.


Cheers.

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On 27/02/2024 at 20:13, tea boy said:

 

I am going to fit the internal reinforcing brace.

 

 


To continue my current plan of attack, and now that the section of floor is cut out to enable me to fit the brace it seemed like a good time to take said brace kit out to the tent.

Now, I don't always lose things but when I do, it's because the Lovely Doctor has moved them.

After about half an hour of searching I had them in hand, so off we go.

First thing is these flanges where the removed piece was fitted.

You can see I have outlined it in felt pen.

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They need to come off, but you have to be careful with them because they need to go back on later.

This is the other side almost off.

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With those out of the way there are some platey things to go in.

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In the picture above you can see that the platey thing is sitting proud of the panel but it needs to be flush with it because there will be another platey thing going on top of it.

Drawing around it was easy enough.

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But due to my dodgy lumbar region coupled with my back legs being gone, the contortions required to get through the boot aperture to trim it down made that a thoroughly uncomfortable little job.

It does now fit flush though.

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The other side was much the same.

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Except the trimming up was more awkward; because I am right handed I needed to get myself even further inside the boot to get to it.

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I am using the awkward position and my discomfort as an excuse for cutting a bit too much out of that bottom right hand edge...


Cheers.

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Yesterday I had my platey thing stuck in with magnetism.

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This did hold it in place but something a bit more permanent would probably be a good idea.

Before I could do anything about that, I needed to stick some weld through primer in them.

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Ideally I would have done the painting last night but I had run out of steam.

I dried them off on the Rayburn whilst I was getting things ready.

When both I and the platey things were ready, they got tacked into place.

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It got welded in and sanded flat.

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The reason it needed to be flat is because another, larger platey thing goes on top
of it.

This platey thing to be precise.

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I really wanted to get the area cleaned up and some weld through primer on ready for the fitting of the large plate but my knees and back told me that I had had enough.

It was really awkward and uncomfortable and this is the easy side.

I could do with being left handed to do the other side.


Cheers.

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The weather has been horrible today so I didn't fancy dragging the welder out in the storm.

Not that I was quite ready to start welding just yet.

I need to paint some weld through primer where this big platey thing is going to fit.

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Before I could paint it with weld through primer I needed to remove the old paint which is non weld through.

To do this I went at it with a wire wheel on a grinder.

When the grinder is spinning at around eleven thousand RPM there can be the occasional wire ejected at high speed from the wheel.

This is not normally a major problem as long as one is equipped with suitable protective equipment.

One of tonight's flying wires hit me in the nose, which I didn't enjoy too much so I abandoned the wire wheel for this device.

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It is a very effective paint stripper and because the green bristly thing is made from plastic it has the added bonus that if anything were to fly off into one's  proboscis it is less likely to draw blood and leave you looking like Santa's favorite reindeer.

I managed to survive the rest of the paint removal process so I then did a bit of tidying and trimming of the hole where the small platey thing is going on the other side.

With that done I rigged up some rudimentary masking.

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The reason for the masking was that I couldn't be bothered to mix up the 2k weld through so I was using the aerosol copper stuff.

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Another advantage of the spray on paint is that it seems to stick quite well to the zinc plated things without having to treat them with mordant solution first.

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This means that I should now be ready to weld in the big platey thing on the left and the small platey thing on the right.

I hope the weather is a bit nicer tomorrow afternoon.

Cheers.

 

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It's the weekend, Yay!

I had a dentist appointment this morning, boo!

It was just a check-up fortunately, so it didn't impact upon my ability to go to Ten Acres cafe for a fry up afterwards.

It wasn't raining when I got home so I could have the tent 'door' open for some natural light which makes things far more pleasant.

Now that I had weld through primer on both the car and the large platey thing there was nothing stopping me from fitting it.

I needed some method of holding it in position whilst I got it tacked.

I have a lovely sash clamp which has reversible heads so that you can use it to either pull things together or push them apart.

It is perfect for what I need except I have left it in the workshop up at the yard, so I had to improvise with some blocks of wood and a scissor jack.

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There are five holes on the platey thing but I can only use two of them to initially hold it in place.

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The reason that I couldn't use the other three holes straight away is because the section that the platey thing is fitted to is double skinned.

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You need to spot weld drill the holes to ensure that the innermost skin is also welded to the platey thing.

Here it is drilled and clamped up with my jury rigged jack and wood thing.

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All the holes drilled and welded.

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I couldn't stand looking at the blobby plug welds so I sanded them off.

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Next I tack welded the perimeter, making sure it was closely pressed up against the chassis rail with my contraption where necessary.

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I made a start welding the perimeter at the edge nearest to me.

There was a lap joint in the chassis rail at this point, so I made sure the weld bridged the gap.

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Top edge next.

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At this point I took a break to watch the Formula One.

This happened to coincide with a colossal downpour so the timing was good.

The lovely Doctor woke me up when the F1 had finished and I went back outside.

Before my snooze I had done the bits that I could access from the boot, I had to climb into the back seat to do the other end.

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It is now almost fitted, there are just a couple of tabby things to plug weld directly to the subframe bolt receiver.

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They are a bit tight getting the torch in and being able to see what you are doing.

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I also seam welded around the tabby things but didn't take a picture of that.

Now that side is done, there is more of the same on the other side, starting with the little platey thing.

As I had prepped and painted the area it could be tacked straight in.

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I never took a picture of the other side small platey thing before I had ground it down so, as compensation...

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Of course, this side needed grinding down too.

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That was as much as I got done today. It is now ready for fitting up the other big platey thing.

The Doc has got some jobs lined up for me tomorrow but if there are not too many I might be able to get a bit more done.


Cheers.

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The lovely Doctor made me do things today.

We have a rose tree thing which grows up the front of the house and she wanted it trimming down.

I don't like anything to do with gardening at the best of times but I like gardening at the top of a ladder even less.

I am not keen on heights to start with but being at height whilst surrounded by prickles is not my idea of fun.

One of those prickles went straight through my glove.

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There was claret everywhere, I didn't like that either.

I was glad when I could get back into the tent so I could get some more weld through primer on ready for the second big platey thing.

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I didn't paint it yesterday because the welds from the small platey thing needed a bit more sanding down and the large platey thing also needed a few tweaks to get it to fit into the space.

Once the tweaking was done and the paint had dried, I set up my jack and wood contraption again.

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I started by plug welding the holes which didn't need drilling out.

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I repositioned the contraption for each of the holes to ensure good contact with the panel below.

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Once the platey thing was secure I could drill the other three holes.

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Once those holes were drilled and welded up I filed the blobby bits down and then welded the perimeter.

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I was scrunched up in the back seat with my head under the parcel shelf so it was difficult to do a tidy job and, as a result, it all ended up a little bit untidy looking.

I need to sand the welds down a bit to tidy them up which I will have to do another time because my pal Shultz turned up to visit, so that was as far as I got today.


Cheers.

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Monday again and back to work.

My first job of the day was horrid and took twice as long as I had anticipated which cocked up my day.

As a result, I was home late so I didn't have much time in the tent.

Now that the little and large platey things are fitted that means the next job is to fit some more platey things.

To avoid platey thing confusion I think that the little and large ones, which were fitted on the sides should be called the sidey platey things.

The next platey things go on top of the subframe bolt receivers so I am going to call those the top platey things.

Anyway, as I said, I was late home so I couldn't be bothered to drag the welder down.

I was not ready to weld the top platey things in anyway, because they didn't quite fit.

I needed to do tome trimming and fettling of the hole that they are going to fill to make them fit nicely.

This is the right hand top platey thing, which I did get fettled in and fitting ok.

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The left hand one didn't take quite as much fettling because there is a huge gap next to it.

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That space is where I had to cut an extra bit out to remove that big lump of blue plastic that BMW had put in there as a pathetic attempt to strengthen the area.

Of course, that bit will need to go back in to fill up the hole.

I knew that I had put it somewhere safe, but it was months ago when I cut it out...

I eventually tracked it down, it was under the squeaky floorboard behind the bedroom dresser.

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Looking at that gap between the top platey thing and the rediscovered piece it seems that I either used a really thick cutting disc, or I made the cut in the wrong place...


Cheers.

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Tonight I got the welder out and got myself set up to start welding the top platey thing in but when I opened the boot I could see that I hadn't put any weld through primer on there, so I did that first.

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I had a lovely cup of tea whilst it dried.

Luckily, it didn't take too long.

I made a start getting it stuck in place.

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It was still a bit of an awkward fit despite yesterday's fettling so I had to do one bit then adjust it with a hammer and punch or chisel, depending on what was required.

Once it was reasonably secure I could tap the top bit down so that it was in contact with the bolt receiver below.

There are four plug welds that go onto the receiver but these need drilling out deeper first.

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It ended up fitting quite well in the end.

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I just have to weld it up along the top now, but my back had had enough of being lent over inside the boot.

It is quiz night tomorrow so possibly Thursday, then I can start on the other side.


Cheers.

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The lovely Doctor couldn't make it to the quiz last night because she was working but we won without her. Yay!

I've told her that she is sacked and that my team mate's daughter who substituted for her is going to be promoted.


I've had total grueller of a 14 hour shift at the coalface today and I was convinced that I wasn't going to do anything tonight but when I got home I remembered that the Doc is working late again.

I also have all my family coming over for the weekend tomorrow night so I am going to be out of action until Monday at the earliest so I thought I'd better at least try to do something.

Do you remember this joiny piece Which I had to remove?

The black bit.

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As I mentioned before, there is quite a large gap on the left which is a tiny bit annoying but as this piece is going to have the left hand top platey thing welded to it, and that platey thing is part of the chassis reinforcement programme, I want to make sure that the joiny piece is properly secured.

To that end, it was always the plan to back up the joint with an extra bit of plate rather than just butt welding it in.

Now, the sensible thing to do would be to just cut a strip of steel for each edge, but I don't want anyone accusing me of being sensible.

I decided to make a one piece thing so I used the CAD method, which in this case means Cooplands aided design.

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I thought it looked really simple.

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The foldey bit on it is a reasonably wide radius so I found something suitable to bend it around.

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It fitted nicely in the joiny bit so I bent the new piece round it.

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I said that I thought it looked easy but, of course, its never that simple.

The front edge of the joiny piece is curved and it sends my new piece off at a tangent.

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I had to do a bit of fettling and shaping to get it to sit more comfortably.

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If you look al the line along the bottom edge of the black bit you might get some idea of the shape in it.

It was a faff and the sensible thing to have done would be to make three separate strips, one for each side, but where is the fun in that?

Anyway, I got the inside of the joiny piece sanded down to remove that black stuff then both pieces got some weld through primer.

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Hopefully they will get welded together next week.


Cheers.

 

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As I said last time, I had my family over for the weekend.

That is two daughters, a granddaughter, a son-in-law and a grandson who is still in the assembly stage ( due in June ).

It was a very full weekend which I was lucky to survive.

We went to Cleethorpes to walk Fat Al on the beach and very nearly froze to death.

I did order a cake from Lil's Cakes for the visitors and luckily they left me a piece, which I am eating as I type this.

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Anyway, back to reality and back to work today.

I was a bit late home but I was keen to do something so I went into the shed to have a look at that joiny piece.

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I thought maybe I will just tack that bit on that I made and get some primer on it, at least it will be ready to fit next time.

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It dried quite quickly next to the Rayburn so perhaps I could offer it in place to make sure that it fits.

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I stuck a couple of tek-screws in it to hold it in position and it seemed to fit quite well.

I wonder if it would mate up nicely with the top platey thing.

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Hmm, I'm not sure.

Maybe I should bring the welder down and get a few tacks on it to see what it looks like.

Some of the tacks were a bit more that tacks.

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Well, as I've gone this far I might as well do a bit more.

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And before you know it those couple of tacks and a drop of primer have gotten out of hand and it is 9pm.


Cheers.

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