I know a pretty piss poor design that, pouring water into a box section, what did they think was going to happen. I could imagine that vauxhall knew it would corrode the car sooner rather than later, but then that would be a conspiracy ahem!Mk3alan wrote:Never did sound like a good idea to pour water into a box section!
My MK4 Astra sunroof has leaked water pipes down the screen pillar then exits between inner and outer wing which is where the bulkhead water goes.
Alan
Today I started playing about with my new spot welder trying to get nice tasty spot welds. Although first of all I had to set the thing up, no it's not just switching it on, there is a little more you need to do, like align the clamps, then the electrodes, then fine tune the 3 different settings for pulse or continous, thickness of metal, and the timing....and the clamp pressure. The clamp pressure is kina like adjusting your spark plug gaps, you need just the right clamp pressure for the workpiece, so you put 2 clamped plates inbetween the electrodes and then fine adjust with the adjuster on the handle.
Not easy when you consider the infinite amount of possibilites with the clamp/electrode adjustments, and the 3 settings it take a wee while to get things just right. I also found that occassionally the RCD in the garage would trip now and again, luckily the weld circuit, the lights and 13A sockets are on seperate circuits so only the welder 16A trips.
It's ok just now, but the tips wear out and I'll probably need to adjust them as they wear out.
I done a few scrap pieces of metal first, then took an old sill cut off from senator, cut that in half and then joined the lips together, the bits that would originally be where the door seal runs along the kick plate bit. Looked not too bad, I think I'm getting the hang of it, though it's a heavy bugger!