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I've drowned the reinforcers in underbody seal, fingers-crossed never need to deal with them, just treat as an annual chore and keep them covered. Covered myself in the stuff too, a shirt and jumper separately ruined and then transfer from my trousers to the seat. Aargh! :p Need to tackle stuff whil...

You're doing a good job of keeping on top of it, i'm envious :thumb Have you noticed the lack of boiler-suited home mechanics? I don't know if this is because it's not cool or, as I suspect, because there hasn't been a decent manufacturing industry offering apprenticeships since the 70's so it's no...

These bits behind the rear wheels got a rough scrape, wire-brush, brush with Jenolite gel, clean with spirit-wipe, then zinc primer can-sprayed, and a spray with underseal. The small holes made at the outermost edge on the offside got a little bit of thumb-sized glass-fibre mat stuck on like an elas...

Nipped out and took some photos of these bits as they look now, raw, they're not flattering, but I hope only on account of flash effects. Just because there are photographs though, it doesn't mean it actually ever happened! Have some overspray it looks like on the side of the driver's seat base cush...

Cheers, Andy had another look at those shots in your thread. Yikes! Might have to do something with these bits. If new reinforcers were to be fitted, think I'd close the big holes in them off, leaving just a small hole or two to get wax in through. For now will just follow Robsey's advice and inspec...

£75.00 each! I had the notion in my mind of them being something like £20 maybe. £23 sounded right, had a nice ring to it. :cry: Need to have a further root about this bit, a few flakes of rust were fished out of there. This was one of the bits I noted had received very little of the Dinitrol coatin...

I am very guilty of "improper jacking". Both of mine are completely flattened. It is the cost of replacing mine that keeps it off the road. I would use the car tomorrow if I thought I could get an mot with crushed and now rusted outer reinforcers. :( I suspect that they are within 30cm of...

Thanks Envoy and all for the support, rear-arch/sill repair is quite an ordeal in itself. Hand-holding appreciated. Would do likewise. :) Coming together nicely now. 8-) The bit at the A-pillar explored: http://www.zen222765.zen.co.uk/2022-06-24-cav-os-w/p1010002.jpg Sorted. The shape here is a bit ...

Sorry for sounding so despondent, temporary doldrums. Slings and arrows from all quarters right now. Working on the sunnier side of the street today. Still adjusting filler and tapping a high-spot or two inside the rear door-shut, rarely seen. Getting some colour on soon should lift spirits. This ca...

Thanks Chris and Envoy. Credit for the fabrication/welding goes to Peter, the welder, I'm just slapping sparkly goo on top, or trying to. I gave the idea of using fibreglass mat in the gulley a miss. I just brushed down it with seam sealer, letting it hang over the edge, and pressed it once part-set...

A few days back had lost my filler mojo: my edges had a wobble. Paint if it wasn't being blown away by the wind, was reacting with the cold surface or substrates, or running. Feels like progress today. Much better conditions, getting there. Still not touched the bit at the A-Pillar as very awkward t...

Thanks - I have been looking online, and it appears to be quite easy to convert my welder from gasless to MIG. General gist is to reverse the polarity of the earth clamp and torch connections. Plumb in an electronic gas valve. And connect a gas bottle and regulator. Not sure if I need to change the...

Thanks, folks for the support and ideas, thoughts. It was a bit of a rant fuelled by seeing full-colour flagrant rust up-close in macro-mode, it makes a pimple look the Grand Canyon. :shock: This area, both sides looks quite accessible once the rear bumper, wheel and to do it right, shockers probabl...

Those are the little blighters, Robsey. Had some similar-headed nails which might have done, which could have been attached to the repair pieces, with full access to the back of them, before the sections were welded in. If it went wrong however, would then have unwanted holes or worse. It's only the...

Cheers Robsey and Envoy CDX Decent day today, warm, filler going off too rapidly, not much wind but now and again few spots of rain. Had to pack it in a couple of times till the rain stopped but it never came to anything, so resumed. The rusty bit further back on the offside, mentioned yesterday -th...

The time has come to reveal the state the offside sill has got into, been allowed to get into. :shock: Though other than the areas shown, the rest of it is sound. A local welder/restorer Peter (not his real name he prefers to remain anomalous) welded these using part of a wheelarch section and part ...

Seem to remember the original Grundig radios on the earlier cars, had something called logic-on and-logic off, which controlled whether it would operate without the ignition on, or even having the key in. Prefer myself to have it always operable. Don't know what radio would have originally been in m...

with the New Year celebrations likely to start winding down up here, sometime soon I expect ... amidst sundry dark-doings finally got around to car and bike stuff top and bottom, the barrels got the heat-resistant paint scraped off the fins, just because, looks more something, better http://www.zen2...

Nonsense Robsey, this is mickey mouse stuff to you. It is your exploits in electrickery here that have in part inspired this. That is doing something other than blinking blinking LEDs, even if stuck to bits of wood shaped like christmas trees, easter-eggs and such futilities. Slow progress as testin...

Not much happening with the Cavalier except the march of the rust, aided by total overkill salting of the roads and pavements far and away beyond what is necessary and desirable. Broke my (painted last year or the other) petrol flap off, fitted a temporary red-metallic one, while I glued it, amazing...

All the best everyone for the Calamitous Seasoning ahead.

Timely reminder to me to get the battery out of the bike, but forgot to SORN it end October so have another month tax before I forget again, then it's mothballs till March-April. Otherwise it (battery not bike, don't give me ideas) would have been indoors and on an occasional maintenance charge Bit ...

There is a mystery opening as pictured on my mk3 n/s, not sure if there's a matching one on the driver's side. Bit worried about blocking any drainage given the amount of wax and stuff lavished on the underside. Is this slot/hole, bottom middle-left, where the n/s sunroof front drainage pipe content...

I think I've been needing a new blower fan in mine for at least the last 10 Years!! It's been making a whirring/squeaking noise on 1 & 2 speeds but has never (not mentioning it so I don't jinx it) you know what yet. Glad you posted up the part no. number, I might just piss more cash in the wind...

Fortunately this has arrived well-ahead of schedule at still-dark o' clock. Let me regale you. Huge thanks to Paul at MB Masteda, Berlin, for his diabolical efforts not to sell this to me, without VIN etc. Three of the damned things now collected in less than two years. http://www.zen222765.zen.co.u...