Its my 2.0 16v beast, but it was just slowly falling apart and pissing me off, then the clutch went after only 4000 miles
So i just went out one morning and thought, weres the drill, next minute ive got two old rotten wings on the drive, shocks out and cleaned and painted, all the carriers, gearbox cradle and what not all jetwashed, all the car jetwashed in the bay and underneath, stripped everything off it.
Today i removed the lower valance, as these are only 12.00 and mine had a couple of large holes in it, friggin spotwelds are a nightmare and my 9.99 tesco value drill kept going flat after id done about 3 or 4 spot welds so got pissed off and just went off my head with the grinder.
Front valance removed :
I then set about the rust on the rear, it started out as this:
Jumped straight on the orange bits with the grinder and just got a shower of white dust, it seems the metal is sandwiched inbetween some white stuff which when you grind it it gets hot melts and flicks and sticks to my hands
on the front its like bodyfiller, except its white and doesnt smell like filler? The metal is sandwiched in between and rots like a sod as a result.
So i began grinding, and grinding praying for shiny metal.
25 minutes later my prayers where answered as the whole rear quarter end just collapsed at my feet..
So now i need to get the wheels off the back tommorow and jetwash and scrub all the arches and paint them and get rid of all the rust then go down the scrapyard and cut the rear piece of mine thats missing from a decent shell and weld it onto mine.
I need to weld wings on, front valance and that bit on the rear quarter, how much will it cost to hire a welder for 2 or 3 days? a gasless mig or something ?
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