Todays welding shite

[Split_Pin]

Your father must really like this car, that's some weldathon. Having said that, if you had sacked it off we wouldn't be seeing all this, which is fantastic.

[oldcars]

Yeah, this is a 51, but I sorted my aunts 2007 one out a couple of years ago so age is no barrier to being a piece 'o shit!

 To be honest every single one I've seen has needed repairs when you start looking in the right places.

There is one up the road, 56 plate. Its in the plate where the local garage dumps the trade in cars before valets/bridges/sells etc. The trim has been removed and it looks really bad on the sills. Madness for a new car.

[PhillipM]

Your father must really like this car, that's some weldathon. Having said that, if you had sacked it off we wouldn't be seeing all this, which is fantastic.

He's buying an estate to replace it when it's done!

 But he's giving my brother so need to make sure it stays together...

[5speedracer]

See a good amount around in N.E. Scotland, seems the testers don't know where or how to look!

 

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[lexi]

Sill rot has come back into fashion. It is all rather nostalgic and lovely....

  Nice work. As far as welding rusty cars goes, I have been clean for a good few years now..............nasty habit 

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

The quantity of rust is quite remarkable - looking at it makes me wonder how many X-Types will survive. Good repairs though!

[PhillipM]

I reckon I might have got that pad a bit hot sorting out that panel*....




*Not finished yet if you're wondering, need to weld the bottom edge and the right side on as I couldn't manage two curves that close together in the folder - hence the holes so I can bolt it up to the car and then tack the bottom on. Also fucked up a bit as there's supposed to be a dip in that left hand side to slide under the centre one. Hammertime tommorow should fix it - or I'll cut it and just weld it in sitting a little lower.

[Joey spud]

For a fir

 

Sill rot has come back into fashion. It is all rather nostalgic and lovely....

  Nice work. As far as welding rusty cars goes, I have been clean for a good few years now..............nasty habit 

 

For a first post i think that is rather good and very true.

 

When i was weilding my corrossion assessment tool back in the 90's i was constantly failing sills for holes within 12 inches of whatever.

Then rust protection and sealant technology seemed to improve overnight and i was no longer buying cover sills,seam sealer and multi packs of black stone chip.

 

Happy days..

 

P.S that is some quality welding on show here.I like to think i can do heroics with a mig but i doff my hat to you sir.

[PhillipM]

Personally I thought the welding is bit on the shit side!
 Mind it's nice and strong, just a bit too much shite bubbling up + wind/gas holes to get it to lay flat.

[mercrocker]

I don't know what I am more in awe of.....the quality and perseverance of welding here or the galactic amount of rot these things conceal.   

 

Until I knew better I did think the old Jagamondy might make a cheap shitter one day.....Think it would be quicker, easier and better to squeeze a Montego VdP interior into a Mondeo.

[PhillipM]

Just buy the Mondingus!

[inconsistant]

Wow! Not only is that amazingly well hidden tbh it's also pretty disgusting that a car can be that rusty in 10-15 years, especially in a supposedly premium car. I'd be livid if that was mine.

Jag have been making cars for 100 years and the industry as a whole have worked out how to avoid this sort of thing in the last few decades so the only reason for this must be. As you've described, design/manufacturing fault. I'm surprised there aren't more class actions against car manufacturers where a model has a reputation for catastrophic premature rusting.

Rant over, please carry on its fascinating and equally scary, in that we very nearly bought one of these same age instead of the V40.

[somewhatfoolish]

They're just maintaining a long tradition of Jags rotting for sport.

[mat_the_cat]

Is it just me - I've only found this thread today and most of the pictures don't show

[Richard]

He must have reached his quota of views for the month, they should appear again in a few weeks.

[PhillipM]

No, it's Photobucket, their whole site has gone down.

[cobblers]

Instead of photbucked maybe give Imgur.com a go, it's free. Not completely ideal but photobucket makes me murderously angry when I try to use it,  and imgur only slightly annoys me. And it never seems to go down.

[PhillipM]

Photobucket has been shit for the past couple of years but frankly the job of moving photo's over and then fixing all my links is enormous - there's about 10,000 photo's in there.

[rml2345]

That's some amount of rot, in the finest Jaguar tradition of course. Certainly knocks X-Types off the list of potential future motoring choices.

Nice to see the excellent work putting this one right though, even if it is a warning to others less skilled/determined.

[PhillipM]

I've had to chop quite a bit more out at the rear as it went up the inside seams where the arch tub joins, didn't get any pictures though, I'll get some of the new bits going in.

[PhillipM]

Yeah, ended up chopping this out too:



And I made the other two bits to weld together for the structural outers:



But I haven't actually welded the fuckers because it's fucking freezing tonight and I cba.
 Plus I need to put the drain and spot weld holes in the side facing yet but need to tack it up and check the fit first.

[PhillipM]

It's getting serious now, I've had to modify the welder so it goes faster

[t5dean]

very nice like your work

[PhillipM]

Aye well, it's been slow going, mainly due to replacing half a rover 75 and the suspension on the MX-5 mid way through, anyway, all those little rear panels are made and in, and the centre reinforcement, all that was left was to weld the front one up from earlier in the thread:



And try it to see if it slotted into the recievers properly on either side. I'll say that's a yes, because I pushed it in, it went 'ping', sat perfectly in place and now I can't get the fucker back out. Looks like I'm spot welding to the sill through the zinc paint then...

No, I haven't missed some, it's where I put the tacks, don't know why but the camera/photobucket seems to have blurred them with noise reduction....

I'm working on the outer skin now, nearly ready to weld in but didn't get any pictures because

a) It's freezing
It was dark
c) I've made a right balls up of putting some of the ribs in so you're not looking until I fix it

[billyboy406v6]

Nice work, what welder are you using ?

[Split_Pin]

Superb fixerage there, I'm very envious of your skills.

[PhillipM]

It's an old Cifes unit, used to be my grandads/dads so it's done some work over the years!

[Sigmund Fraud]

Man, this thread makes me want to buy an X-Type so I can get some welding practice !

 

Keep up the good work !