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Way too long since last update. Haven't done to much but it's slowly moving forward.

The floor member that takes the subframe y legs was cactus the whole way across from one sill to the other. Luckily my old donor EK wagon had a reasonable one except for the passenger side. I repaired the rust, bolted the subframe up and welded it all back together and managed to do the first floor pan.

Here are the pics

What I started with.



Floor member from donor, 3mm plates to sleeve the repair section plug welded in.



More rust.



Cut it out.



3mm Flat bar repair.



All back in.



Floor pan.



Cheers
Sam

nice Sam will be solid as a rock now mate

Nice work Sam.

Awesome stuff. Donors come in handy eh!

EK JAY wrote:nice Sam will be solid as a rock now mate

Devilrod wrote:Nice work Sam.

Cheers guys.

SunnyTim wrote:

Devilrod wrote:Nice work Sam.

Yeah can you come up to Brissy and work on mine?

You might be waiting awhile Tim, I hardly find time to do mine let alone someone elses.

parisian62 wrote:Awesome stuff. Donors come in handy eh!

They certainly do Stuart.

I found some time and made little bit more progress. I did some repairs to the drivers side lower firewall and got the drivers side floorpan welded in.









Only the little strip between the pans and the front is done, then onto the back two.

Cheers
Sam

Great to see you are sticking with it,Sam.

You definitely don't want that floor to come out, do you Sam Looking pretty solid.

That is really welded.

Are you doing it yourself ?

wot179 wrote:Great to see you are sticking with it,Sam.

Yeah for now I need to at least finish the pans.

oldnek wrote:You definitely don't want that floor to come out, do you Sam Looking pretty solid.

Finny wrote:That is really welded. Are you doing it yourself ?

It's butt welded around the edges and then plug welded every 30mm where it was originally spot welded. Yeah doing it all myself Finny.

Cheers
Sam

Once the pans are finished do another little job, before you know it mate she will be on the rd! Be great to see you finish her!!! Doing a top job!

Good to see you back into it Sam

A little bit more progress made. The two rear floor pans are in, one fully welded and the LHR waiting a new gas bottle for the mig so I can finish it. I ran out this afternoon, painfully frustrating. I sand blasted the area and then por15 painted them before welding the pans in.








Cheers Sam

Great stuff, Sam.

good to see youve still got it sam
regards fatboy

Sam,
What has become of this wagon since your last post in 2014?

Ric.