Rons Resto

Tricked ya..Still done nothin..

Splitfirebus wrote:

Tricked ya..Still done nothin..

Where's your pics gone Paul??

Mr Scoops wrote:

Where's your pics gone Paul??

Pic's sorted

After losing my way with Ron for a while I am back on it now

Thought I would get on with the Pan...

Cut out the worst part of the rust that was around the o/s jacking point...



Found the rear member to be a little far to gone so chopped that out and fabbed up a new piece...



Hey presto...





Repair panel clamped in...



Then welded and ground down...



And spot welded at the rear...



It's a shame the I had to go bigger than the repair panel but I obviously wanted to get back to sound metal.

Fabbed up the patch and welded that in...

After spending 8 Hrs working on the pan yesterday, I had a look at it this morning and I really am not happy with how the small repair panel has gone in, so I am thinking of replacing both pans with the Wolfsburg West Grey pans.

At £500 a pair there not cheap but from what I have read the are the very best you can buy.

The pressing and fit are perfect and they are made from 18 gauge steel.

Repaired bits look pretty bloody neat from here... What didnt go to plan?

If I had to replace pans again, those would be what I'd like to use. I wanted them at the time but couldn't justify the cost, but the ones I used from coolair/mexico were so thin/mis-shapen I'd never use them again.

Woo-Hoo. Ron's back!!

Had a few hours free this afternoon so cut out both the old pans.

Splitfirebus wrote:

Had a few hours free this afternoon so cut out both the old pans.

Now that really is Rons back!!!

Everything that is left now is 100% solid metal.

The gearbox had a slight leak on the nose cone so over the years a little gearbox oil had dripped into the tunnel and as such the inside of the backbone is like brand new.

So, off to order the new pans now

I hate to say it but this could be going a little futher than I had anticipated. But hey ho, I've been and done it now

in for a penny dude ........you know its gonna rock when you finish it ....






















if petrol still exists

nomates wrote:

if petrol still exists

This made me giggle

Splitfirebus wrote:

nomates wrote:

if petrol still exists

This made me giggle

True though

Ordered the floor pans today

Should be here on Thursday

cool glad your back on it bud, will look sweat

looking good mate, cant wate to see this finished, theres a lot of work going into this

New floor pans turned up today at last...



The quality of these pans is very good indeed, the pressings are almost perfect and they are a very heavy gauge metal.

Spent an hour or two checking fitment and stamping out the 114 plug weld holes at 40mm intervals (Yes I know I'm sad)

Managed to find a few hours over the weekend so trial fitted both pans...

As I said before, the fit is really nice...









Notice that the pressings are for a LHD car on the front of the left pan so I'll have to correct that.

As I said before the pressings were wrong on the front of the left pan because the pans are for a LHD car.

So, chop it out...



Flatten the section...



clamp in back in...



Weld it up...

Obviously had to slice the other two ribs, flatten and weld those up along with removing the welded on nut and filling that hole.

Also managed to strip the gearbox down ready to be cleaned up and painted.

Quite amazed that the box was still wearing it's original unsplit gaiters and oringinal clips...