Re: Fuse's 360GLT
Posted: 23 Jul 2015 10:12 pm
There's progress.
I headed to my friend's place for few days and we did some work on the car.
First step was to roll the car out from the barn. It had collected a bit of dust during the winter.
Some washing and we found a 300-series under the dirt.
At first I was way too optimistic and I started to take out the spot weldings on the sills...
Which turned out to be a waste of time as there wasn't too much to save. Angle grinder was the proper tool.
The 2-pillar lift was a bit problematic when working with the sills and the floor around the sills so we manufactured improvised drive-ramps (which turned out to so well that those will be used in future too ). We lifted the car on to the ramps and then we could push the car past the lift's pillars.
Sorry sight.. Sills were replaced at a shop at 2006 but as it turned out those were welded partly over the old sills and inner sills were completely untouched, it had rotten everything inside...
This time everything comes out. More cutting.
At some parts of the floor there were four layers of different patches from different era on top of each other...
After a lot of cutting and thinking, things started to look better again.
We got the driver's side sills and floor pretty much done. Small parts of the outer sill was left unfinished but the driver's side is mostly completed. Next it's the same thing for driver's side. And after that both rear arches so there's still a lot to do but at least there's finally progress and light at the end of the tunnel!
-Marko
I headed to my friend's place for few days and we did some work on the car.
First step was to roll the car out from the barn. It had collected a bit of dust during the winter.
Some washing and we found a 300-series under the dirt.
At first I was way too optimistic and I started to take out the spot weldings on the sills...
Which turned out to be a waste of time as there wasn't too much to save. Angle grinder was the proper tool.
The 2-pillar lift was a bit problematic when working with the sills and the floor around the sills so we manufactured improvised drive-ramps (which turned out to so well that those will be used in future too ). We lifted the car on to the ramps and then we could push the car past the lift's pillars.
Sorry sight.. Sills were replaced at a shop at 2006 but as it turned out those were welded partly over the old sills and inner sills were completely untouched, it had rotten everything inside...
This time everything comes out. More cutting.
At some parts of the floor there were four layers of different patches from different era on top of each other...
After a lot of cutting and thinking, things started to look better again.
We got the driver's side sills and floor pretty much done. Small parts of the outer sill was left unfinished but the driver's side is mostly completed. Next it's the same thing for driver's side. And after that both rear arches so there's still a lot to do but at least there's finally progress and light at the end of the tunnel!
-Marko