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Mr.Borrie
11-28-2008, 12:58 PM
This summer i was over JW240's place and we took out some rust on white-rice.. but it took longer then we thought and I had to go to my sisters birthday.

This week JW would come over to my place and we would finish what we intended to finish back in the summer.. so a few days ago i decided to do some pre working this is the first thing i saw when i took all the carpeting out of the car:

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/2166/img0026xa5.jpg

Yes boys and girls it sure took its tole again on the car.. so i cleaned it all out removed all of the rust and took the whole interior out to see if there was more creepy rust in the back. the where a few small spots but noting crazy.

When JW was at my place we had a nice drink and a chat so when we started it began to become dark already.. here's a action shot of JW and the awesome equipment i borrowed from my dad

(http://imageshack.us)

Also please note my new car radio :lol:
[IMG]http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5934/img0037ca0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

So when it was around 12 in the evening we decided to call it a day, also the gas tank was empty here is the result

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/3820/img0043mm9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/8673/img0046ca9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

I like to thank JW for helping me out with the rice, i will take that mig class soon i promise :-D
Booster
11-28-2008, 01:06 PM
awsome!
JW240
11-28-2008, 05:37 PM
I am not too proud on the welding... ugly but the finished ones are good/strong (the one in the firewall auch.... but this is the best we could do with the limited time).

anyway, no danger to the manifold anymore!

btw, im just home.. took some time to get home :-P
Mr.Borrie
11-28-2008, 05:50 PM
I am not too proud on the welding... ugly but the finished ones are good/strong (the one in the firewall auch.... but this is the best we could do with the limited time).

anyway, no danger to the manifold anymore!

btw, im just home.. took some time to get home :-P

Oh my god that took forever then..!
J2_
11-28-2008, 09:50 PM
Put on some 'zink spray' so it won't rust again !!
Karl Buchka
11-28-2008, 10:42 PM
Look at that cute little gas bottle!
Kevin Hawkinson
11-28-2008, 10:59 PM
oops, wrong thread
dbh86
11-28-2008, 11:24 PM
Look at that cute little gas bottle!

soooo tiny....
Canuck
11-29-2008, 12:04 AM
I was thinking you should grind and seam seal that weld job for sure. Sheet metal is not the easiest thing to weld - takes some real skill to make it look good. Nothing there that can't be cleaned up and made to look pretty. Full marks for doing it the right way :)
Crazychopstick
11-29-2008, 12:05 AM
Weddings and white rice go so well together!
JW240
11-29-2008, 12:07 PM
Put on some 'zink spray' so it won't rust again !!

Yeah Boris has a few cans with rust inhibiting zink-oxide stuff... he should use it ;-)

I was thinking you should grind and seam seal that weld job for sure. Sheet metal is not the easiest thing to weld - takes some real skill to make it look good. Nothing there that can't be cleaned up and made to look pretty. Full marks for doing it the right way :)

yeah, old metal with all kind of crap (even after cleaning) is hard to weld. Usually i use TIG for the stuff i do, but on contaminated metal in awkward positions it sucks. MIG works better then, even though the result is less pretty. One small patch with TIG took me about 45 minutes. Was almost invisible after welding though, required almost no grinding...
This is how a weld should look:
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/458/p9213192qv3.jpg
:)
Mr.Borrie
12-03-2008, 02:00 PM
Weddings and white rice go so well together!

Whats up with my car and that remark?
Mr.Borrie
12-07-2008, 11:12 AM
Jusy applied the first coat of zink:

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/4532/img0122nz1.jpg (http://img247.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0122nz1.jpg)
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2161/img0126pt4.jpg (http://img408.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0126pt4.jpg)
Cojones
12-07-2008, 11:21 AM
Nice work dudes. No worries about how it's looking, it's going to be covered by a few layers of isolation and carpets anyway.
2fast242gt
12-07-2008, 01:48 PM
that hole on the floor where a plate is covering half of it.. where those removable plugs go. are you putting those back in? theres some metal covering it halfway.
Mr.Borrie
12-07-2008, 01:54 PM
that hole on the floor where a plate is covering half of it.. where those removable plugs go. are you putting those back in? theres some metal covering it halfway.

I was gonna cut it out but it was ticker metal than used on the other side so i need to get a saw for that, i still have the cover plates so i am planning on putting them back yes
suterman
12-07-2008, 02:11 PM
I wouldn't worry too much about the holes, they are for waxoyling the chassis arn't they?

ps,

Nice work
2fast242gt
12-07-2008, 02:36 PM
I wouldn't worry too much about the holes, they are for waxoyling the chassis arn't they?

ps,

Nice work

no, you can see the ground threw them. atleast in my 1980.
suterman
12-07-2008, 02:52 PM
no, you can see the ground threw them. atleast in my 1980.

hmmmm, must be drain plugs for when the heater core gives up then:-D
2fast242gt
12-07-2008, 02:57 PM
yeah, thats what it is IIRC lol i rember having a massive heater failure and coolent was drippig from that drain. my carpet pad was soaked for over a month.. i ended up taking it all out and running just carpet.
JW240
12-07-2008, 03:50 PM
nice work!

The half-covered hole (passenger side) in this car leads to the inside of a chassis rail. Otherwise we would have closed that one up as well (another reason to stop was that the cute little gas bottle was empty :-P)
volvo78244
12-07-2008, 04:06 PM
When looking at your car one couldn't tell it would be rusted that much underneeth.

Looks like you and JW took good care of it. I should get into a welding class also but I guess it would take quite some practice before being able to weld like JW does.

Good work guys!
Homer
12-07-2008, 11:46 PM
Did you pay JW in cheap vodka and river cola?
Mr.Borrie
12-11-2008, 02:17 PM
Son of a bitch! i wanted to pain the rest of the car .. then i saw this..

<img src="http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/5307/img0128oo4.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/>

<img src="http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/5391/img0129cx9.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/>

my guess it must come from the windshield, there was some rust near the chroom i did not wanna break that up right now..
Dont think i will do it soon since i have to pass my yearly check in less than a week and the car is still not together.. luckily i did finish up with school a bit so this weekend i'll go for it
manbeard
12-11-2008, 02:57 PM
take an air hose and stick it in the water drain area from the sunroof. my old car had that clogged and it would just leak like a mofo
Mr.Borrie
12-17-2008, 07:39 PM
take an air hose and stick it in the water drain area from the sunroof. my old car had that clogged and it would just leak like a mofo

I will check that out!

For now the car is back on the road, got it all cleaned up and painted, redid the wires for the speakers and carputer