cort16's Cortina Crap - Suspicious Sill

[garbaldy]

The two doors can be picked up cheep in euro land but I canny get two of those on a trailer.

[sheffcortinacentre]

P100 uses Mk5 est doors on the series 1 (small B pillar vent) series 2 uses mk5 4dr saloon door (large B pillar vent).

 

with the 1.3 diff & 2.0 eng it should be very quick of the mark, if the brakes feel wooden servo or crap pads it shold stop fine ( to check servo press pedal several times with eng off then hold down while it starts pedal should drop an inchish if servo is working).

 

check the servo pipe & eng breather pipe aren't split & are secure as these can give poor starting/brake performance.

 

you need to get yourself on www.buysellcortina.co.uk

[cort16]

News just in. I have my new welder. Good penetration.

 

[cort16]

It seems really good so far for the money anyway. Check the quality of the earth clamp v the one on the power SMEG. The old one wouldn't clamp two bits of bog paper together.

 

 

it's not much smaller than the old one. I built a little trolley thing for something else a while back I'll adapt for this once I can be bothered. I can't tell you how much better it is to use v the Sealey. Not only that but swan neck and general fitments are much better quality and more configurable.

It's actually given me a bit of mojo injection as I know now I'll not spend half my day knobbing around fixing the old welded. I actually cut out the seat belt mounting points and nearly finished making the replacement plate tonight but got too carried away and didn't take a picture.

 

[cort16]

I managed to escape my family by climbing out the back window of the house while one of them was at the toilet and get a few hours on this tonight.

 

I cut the old seat belt mounts out and cleaned up the captive nut re-enforcing plate things. I drilled a couple of holes in a bit of 5mm bar I had lying around around welded the re-enforcing plates onto that bar then welded the face of Johnny 5 onto my car. I also added a new bit of bottom inner sill that had went frilly.

 

Cortina Sill

 

 

Johnny 5

 

 

I also discovered it wasn't just the old welder that was this issue as I was producing some prolific pigeon shit. It took me a while get my wire speed right but by the end it was more consistent when I could see what I was doing. It's certainly not coming off anway.

Does anyone have any tips for welding in low light? I've got a lamp but if it get's too close it triggers the auto dipping helmet and I can see even less.?

 

Once that was in I decided to have a look at the sill ends, notorious rot boxes of any old shite heap not just Fords.

 

 

 

Sure enough it was seriously chewy so I cut it all out and made up a new bit. WELD cock in there for scale purposes.

I actually took my time and made this properly rather than just trying to bodge it on, which paid off.

 

 

I was getting punch drunk by this point and it took me over 2 minutes to find my welding glove, which it turns out I had on but still decided to tack it in out of principle.

 

 

 

Check out that massive mig blob to the right of it (that wasn't me this time). I might grind it down but I'm just happy to have metal to weld to.

Once I get this properly welded in I can start to fit the sill. W@@T.

 

Even though I am a bit ham fisted with the welder it is so much easier I can't tell you. Even not having to dick around with it jamming saves so much time.

In other news I posted a couple of pictures of it on facebook and someone came back saying it was originally beige. Not 100% convinced by that as I've not found 1 spot of beige but they recon the have pictures.

[fordperv]

I have contemplated fitting a couple of leds in my welding helmet for low light, don't know whether it would work though

[oldcars]

News just in. I have my new welder. Good penetration.

 

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I don't know how to weld, but at a guess you have made a cock of that job 

[cort16]

I have contemplated fitting a couple of leds in my welding helmet for low light, don't know whether it would work though

 

I tried using one of those elasticated head light things walkers use and it worked quite well other than it kept slipping off my helmet (ooer mrs).  I did consider glueing it but then how could i change the batteries.?

It ideally needs the lamp on the outside and the batteries on the inside.

[Richard]

Maybe you could make something up along the lines of these clips for mounting head torches on hard hats. http://www.torchdirect.co.uk/head-torch-range/helmet-clips-for-head-torches.html

[BavarianRetro]

Good positionable magnetic base LED work light does the job. Stuck onto or close to the workpiece as opposed to the helmet.

[cort16]

I've got a couple of them magnetic led lamps I never seem to be able to get them pointing quite in the right direction.

This looks quite neat

 

http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/illuminated-welding-helmet.48392/

[mat_the_cat]

This is what I did to mine...just a 200 lumen AA pocket torch, held on with a 15 mm pipe clip.

 

 

Might have to work on the Ironman fancy dress outfit though...

[cort16]

I've got a couple of those torches I might give that a go.

[cort16]

looky here we've got ourself an old fashioned weld fest.

 

 

The sill I had is for a 4 door so I couldn't drill out the spot welds and re-attach it in one bit I needed to hack it up a bit to get it to do what I wanted to do. I also had to alter the flange along the bottom quite a lot to get it all lined up. Qfter a lot of cleaning metal, drilling holes and lots of trying not to stand on it, it wazzed on quite easily. I ended up having to put a new plate between the inner sill and the new bit of inner wheel arch I added as it seems there weren't actually connected in any way.

 

Buzzed it back with the flap disc

 

 

It needs a small skim* of filler and it should be fine. 

I'd like to thank my new welder for making this possible. Once I was ready to start welding it was a breeze.

[320touring]

Will see it at scotoshite on 30th if p6 ftp:)

[cort16]

I still recon i'll finish it 1 week before the mot runs out at the start of July

[cort16]

Looks like I'm right on target for the MOT running out. I've spent so long fucking around with the volcanic geyser loosely disguised as a Rover P6 I've neglected this a bit when I'm so close*