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Small update, you'll all soon get sick of these half finished updates. I figure its a way to trick myself into thinking theres been progress.

 

I still have not so much idea about what I'm doing, surely theres more to it.

 

Cardboard.

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Weee patch.

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The more important piece.

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Will attempt to make the same thing for the other side, and perhaps electric them in this weekend.

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So I managed to do some more today, a bit less hungover than yesterday.

Gonna need some more gas and etch primer soon.

 

Cut off some bits that were shit

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Made some bits that were loosely the same

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Splat splat

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bzzzt

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Bzzzt splat splat

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Then I attempted to remove rust from the towing eye brackets without having to recreate any of their funky shapes/3dimensions.

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The other side was a bit more awkward/shitty.

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At this point I gave up for the day and went for a rollerskate. 

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Ok so I haven't done a lot this week.

 

This

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Came out of here-ish

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And I did a shitty job of reattaching towing brackets

 

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This side was a train wreck. 

 

I'm not sure where to attack tomorrow. Its all pretty fucked.

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No real progress. Bought the cheapest sheet metal nibbler possible, and I have attempted accurately identify some trouble areas, Read: Cut things. 

 

So this is drivers floor below A pillar

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Somewhat more exposed.

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Outside sill/bottom of A pillar

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Inner guard looking at floor/firewall spotwelds, why are some of these covered in what looks like Brazing? 

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And a piece removed to try get to rust.

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Not pictured is me loosing my goddamn mind. 

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Ok so the last spot I started trying to sort out was giving me the shits, waaay beyond my ability/amount of fucks available, so nothing got done for a month.

Gonna try somewhere else for a while. 

 

Bought some shit saw horses, took off this brown metal(ish) thing.

 

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Did stuff to it, found holes, with bog in them.

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Did more stuff, could be worse? 

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Cut stuff out of here.

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And some more off there.

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Then pretended like I knew what I was doing.

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Maybe tomorrow I'll do some more, maybe I'll sleep till 2pm instead.

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K, so photobucket somehow hooned through 13gig of bandwidth or something. A little bit more work happened. Not heaps.

 

Ran out of wire, this should last a while. 

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So yeah, its kinda warped, but turns out the back of the car is less square than the tailgate so hey.

Probably passable with bog? Ok!

 

Then these guys came and we hung out.

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Circumstances have changed a little bit with the work space situation, so not much gonna happen till I can find somewhere to work on it permanently/buy a house. 

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