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i cleaned up the windscreen channels and brushed some primer onto them.

i didn't take a picture of the back because I'm a bit useless.

 

 

22270531206_227f0476b3_h.jpg2015-10-19_07-50-42 by sheepers, on Flickr

 

i had some paint left over so i splashed it about as best as i could inside the rear quarters until it ran out the bottoms. i did both sides and there is paint all over the floor.

 

22283659652_5c9faa9710_h.jpg2015-10-19_07-50-25 by sheepers, on Flickr

22296546335_47ace01acf_h.jpg2015-10-19_07-50-34 by sheepers, on Flickr

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and now the final battle begins.

 

the roof. 

so they cut off the drip rails and welded the roof back on along the bottom edge for reasons which escape me. there were a couple of very (typically) nasty repairs on the sides of the roof and i was unsure about how best to fix it. after discussions with Peter about making new drip rails and the cons and cons of attaching them externally we decided the only to way to fix it properly was to fix it properly.

so we are recreating the drip rails and the roof sides back to how it would have been factory. this requires a few bis to be made on the folder and a few other tricks to get the curve into them but the best thing about doing it this way is that it means i can cut the sides of the roof off and get in there to fix the rust properly.

 

so i cut the sides off the roof. 

22288857370_7226c5e90e_h.jpg2015-10-26_01-04-00 by sheepers, on Flickr

 

22476815255_3717f55c73_h.jpg2015-10-26_01-04-17 by sheepers, on Flickr

 

you can see theres a bit of rust in there that needs fixing and once thats done i can weld in the new parts.

heres a drawing of how it was factory and this is how ill repair it.

 

22288857438_a22665ec75_h.jpg2015-10-26_01-03-18 by sheepers, on Flickr

 

so this week ill be up at Peters shop each night after work folding new drip rails and making new roof sides. then weld it all back together.

 

how hard can it be? 

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cleaned up all the rust and gave it all a thick coat of two pack primer.

it looks like its rusty in the pix but its not really its just the light being a gay homosexual 

 

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should be up at the shop tomorrow night folding up some new drip rails. 

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well, that was a comprehensive fuck up.

i talked to the guys at the paint shop about wet laying and i guess i didn't ask the right questions because I've fucked it up somehow.

looks to me like the primer is still too wet and the whole lot is just running off the surface of the primer, but, i waited the 40 minutes i was told to wait and it looked how i thought it should have looked before i put the colour on and its not happy.

ill go and see what I've done wrong tomorrow. hopefully i can fix it tomorrow night.

bit of a fuck up but you get that when you don't really know what your doing. 

 

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