Freelander off the road again, Easter rusty sill resurrection? (Page 2)

[stuboy]

nice press

[Marina door handles]

I suppose I better finish this tail off. The bearings and back box arrived.

I had really mashed the back box good and proper......

So I replaced it with this very high quality............ okay it was cheap.....

Exhaust job done, I moved back to the bearing.

 

The passenger side front bearing went in pretty easily, I decided not to touch the drivers side (it hadn't been noticeably noisey) and I put the car back together for a test drive and within a few meters I realised I had made a mistake, the ABS, Traction and Hill descent warnings would not go out.... Initially I thought I must have put the bearing in the wrong way around but it occurred to me that I hadn't notice a magnetic ring..... Then I inspected the spare bearing and yep no magnetic ring, well bollocks!

I managed to get hold of the correct style of bearing and went through the whole process again....   

Finally success! The car is back up and slightly quieter...

Oh yes and I picked up another new tool, a very cheap bearing puller. Its main task was getting the remains of the bearing race off the wheel hub. Yes you need to get the bearing moving initially as you need space to get in behind it but it removes all that awkward drifting at funny angles to keep the race moving down and off the shaft....

Anyway, its now back on the road, so i can now focus on my other cars........

 

[Marina door handles]

A month or so back whilst investigating the wheel bearing noise issue I got to test all of the jacking points fairly thoroughly.... Unfortunately the one on the driver's side sill at the rear rather failed that test! It went crunch quite badly.  At the time I had more pressing concerns and decided the car was solid enough in most other areas so I would mentally park that but make some plans to deal with it...

Its the Easter weekend plus I have next week off so what better time to get back in the garage for some choppy choppy buzzy buzzy action?!

Firstly how bad is it? well the jacking point has split in half and has crunched upwards into the sill which has clearly split.....

I removed a foot or so of sill for a good look see... 

So not great, then I removed the sill plastic end cap and found that the back corner of the sill had basically disintegrated......

 

 

The arch is a bit scrappy too, this is going to take a bit of thought and some elbow grease.  

I then scrabbled underneath the car to find out exactly how much of the back of the sill needed replacing and the out rigger section has been collecting water and disintegrated when I tapped it with a hammer.  (excuse the upside downness ) . Not a pretty site but could be worse.

At this point I figured the best place to start was probably replacing the jacking point and work from there. I had some 2mm thick steel  in my stash which is as close to the 2.5mm original that I could find (I will reinforce it with some more plate).  Had sod of a job matching the shape, actually used my press and an old bolt to make the divot down the middle.

Close enough I think....

I have to admit when I bought the car I had noticed a bit of scabbyness in places but had decided because it had a long MOT, it was pretty cheap and I quite liked the car, I was okay to to ignore that little concerned voice in my head....... That's all for now!