Neil's FB Station Wagon

[Errol62]

I admire your patience Neil. Come on, hurry up. You want it ready for the nats mate.


FB ute fixer upper, EK van on rotisserie

[FireKraka]

Stop Clay my sides are hurting from laughing so much mate.

You must mean to 2026 Nats and even then I'm skeptical

[FireKraka]

Bit more done on the weekend.
This rear area is like a Sarah Lee cake, layer upon layer , fitted the first piece that goes 90 deg. into the back
The first patch piece.

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In place

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Final piece, I tacked it in and then walked away trying to be patient and not put too much heat into it will finish it in the next few days.

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I had a problem with my L67 Monaro a week or so ago and bought a new toy to help fault find, turned out to be a dead coil, this is the cheats way to test thought I would check Franks, I had a video to show how they light up as the coil fires but I don't know what format it is in

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I think I'm going to move on to outer sills next and get them sorted.
Neil

[FireKraka]

Finished the back repair and another small one now on to the sills hopefully will get both done this weekend.

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[FireKraka]

Passenger side sill tacked in yesterday finish welding it in this morning and then on to driver side sill

[FireKraka]

Passenger side sill finished off, not pretty but in,

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Funny enough I have to say that the Rare Spares sills didn’t impress me this time, I used them on my Ute but this time the curve to the bend/ flat were the kick panel goes seems to be too tight, I had to open it up to get the bottom to go under the inner sill and the top to line up with the floor.
I know I’m complaining but I suppose at least we have something, it’s better than nothing I suppose.

Started fitting the drivers side, same as passenger but I’ll make it fit.

[Errol62]

Looks the goods Neil

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[EK283]

Yeah, great work Neil.

The sills are strange, i had 2 NOS ones and they were slightly different to each other.

The theory was the people assembling the bodies would use the best fitting parts for each vehicle and the stockpile at the end is now what we have as NOS.

The bodies are all over the shop from the factory as well. No problem with the metal fab skills you have though.

Greg

[FireKraka]

I got the drivers side sill tacked in today and have realised the sills don’t have any of the original slight curve front to back, it took a bit of manipulation, read here BFH, to get it to fit.

[Errol62]

I would hang the doors before getting too serious, Neil.

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[FireKraka]

Unfortunately Clay it is too late for that