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A sheet of steel that used to locate the bottom of the rear wing had rusted away. The only access to this area was from beneath the car. There is a boot floor immediately above, so this repair was going to be fiddley |
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Fortunately the rust hadn't spread into the chassis. The whole area was cleaned up and painted with a zinc rich primer. |
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The new section welded in. I've forgotten to include the hole at the front for the fuel filler drain tube so this will need to be added later with a hole saw. I'll make the hole oversized to allow any water or mud collecting in this area to drain away. |
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Meanwhile, the rear wheelarch was suffering from rot between the 1mm wheelarch and the 4mm structural sheet just beneath the damper mounting. |
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The rust was very localised and was easy to cut out and clean up. A patch was welded in place. |
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The right hand Watts Linkage mounting had rusted very inconveniently on the face that is hidden by the boot floor. |
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Access was only possible by cutting a rather large hole in the boot floor. The photograph shows the rusty metal cut away from the mounting. It seems I have lost the photographs of the actual repair, but a repair section was fitted to complete the structure of the mounting, then a second repair section was used to complete the reinforcing panel. |
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Following the Watts Linkage mounting repair the original boot floor panel was welded back into place. |
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The Watts Linkage mounting on the other side of the car also needed a little repair to the diagonal reinforcement. This box section had looked perfect until I removed the underseal. Sadly it had rusted from the inside. |
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The rear axle had to be removed for this repair. This was no problem as I had already removed the axle to access the rear brake calipers. The reinforcement was cut away, the rear skin repaired, then a new diagonal was fabricated and welded in place. |
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