GingerNuttz

2 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

There's a lot to unpack in that picture.

Lot of PTSD.

Remember there's 2 cam types, there's a big journal one that runs in the block then a small journal one that uses cam bearings.

Cam bearings are preferable since it doesn't wear out the block.

7 minutes ago, captain_70s said:

Belter 🤣

10 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Where did I hear you say that before 🤔

Every single motor prob 🤣

I sometimes question my life choices....

Someone had stuck a plate over a hole with sikaflex then seam sealed it 🤣 must not have known about the painting duct tape technique.

Last holes and she's done.

16 minutes ago, SiC said:

Want another Dolomite to work on next?

 

 

 

 

Thought not 🤣

It still needs a door skin and that but it's not coming back in till I clear my feet with the Manta and Rover, I just had some bills I had to pay and I'm not working atm so I couldn't turn it away.

Seen some shit this old boat.

The driveshaft tunnels have been welded but I think they cut bits from another car then threw some pigeon shit at em .

2 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

They don't* make them like they used to, although I guess this one must have about 20 years on mine.

Tack welds and filling over holes has led to it being as bad as it is, I've had to make a whole bottom for the front of the wing yesterday since they just filled holes. 

Yours is clean underneath for its age, both are from what I can remember.

This is what a garage told Gary it needed done 

Must have been looked over by Stevie Wonder 🤣

3 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Is that still the same Saab you'd hoped to get finished by yesterday? 

It's leaving Sunday 🤣

I've only got a couple of little bits to weld now, that back bit is done as of 3pm and the front bits is ready just to seam.

By the time I finish tonight I'll have near 46 hours in this and I've still the front drivers arch to have a poke at, 12 holes on passenger side and 3 on the drivers so far.

Only took it on so I could pay some bills but the poor guy didn't think it was this bad, neither did I tbf.

37 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Are those self tappers structural?

I've taken about 20 self tappers out of it 😂

I don't even know if Gary has had it long but whoever had it tarted it up and made an arse of it.

On 3/13/2023 at 4:05 PM, GingerNuttz said:

Aye it's Gary's car, he needed a corner welded for an MOT but he's wanting it restored in the future.

Someone had made a total arse of the back corner 

 

Tacked on arch panels and patches over holes, first pic is the arch where it meets the bottom of the quarter panel, they couldn't even be arsed finishing the weld 😑 

Oh aye and the sheet metal tek screws just slammed through the panel.

He should have it back at 5pm tonight 

 

Nearly done I said, have it back at 5pm I said, I need to give myself a slap.

Held together with hopes and dreams topped off with a ton of filler.

12 hour days since Monday to crank it out and this whole side is done but I'm burnt to shit and tired, look like I've been shooting up 😂

17 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Ooft, looks like the kind of repairs I helped a boy do to the works hack MK2 Fiestas back in the 1990s. 

Blame me for you getting that, I gave him your number last year😅

I've been putting it off for a year, poor guy must have thought I was ripping the piss 🤣

I'm still putting the resto off but I sorted his mot welding out since it was basically nothing.

7 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Looks well!

Is the owner of that 900 a boy called Gary?

Aye it's Gary's car, he needed a corner welded for an MOT but he's wanting it restored in the future.

Someone had made a total arse of the back corner 

Tacked on arch panels and patches over holes, first pic is the arch where it meets the bottom of the quarter panel, they couldn't even be arsed finishing the weld 😑 

Oh aye and the sheet metal tek screws just slammed through the panel.

He should have it back at 5pm tonight 

Outside pics.

Oh how far the Clio of the lake has come 🤣

Polishing up well enough.

Fair bit of polishing left but it's coming up well enough.

Couple of nibs I've missed I need to re flat 

One of the last resprays I'll be doing then I'm sticking to welding.

(posted this in the grumpy thread by mistake 😑)

Green. 

De nib and a polish and it's fuckin done. 

Nvm, just read you're gonna rebuild it 🤣

Got a bit of shit in my eye and I've pumped it full of that stuff for welding flashes so I can hardly see.  

Sell me the old lump if you're shifting it, I still wanna supercharge one for a laugh.

Herald was the exact same 😂

Finally got my dad to get rid of that bloody Zafira, was gonna need welding and painting soon and I told him no 🤣 

He's away to see an 18 plate Insignia, hopefully he buys the bloody thing so I can set the Zafira on fire up the fields and claim the insurance 

Always wanted one of these so I could put something modern under it, hilarious to hump boy racers in an old Austin.

etched and nearly blocked.

Missed a couple of wee chips since my eyesight is arse 

Paint in a matter of days, thank fuck !