Today I spent some more time relieving the bottom of the LH boot door to enable it to close properly over the sill. In the late afternoon I cut and bent the two steel pieces to form the sill cover. These will be welded together and finished tomorrow, hopefully.
Monthly Archives: June 2020
28/6/2020
The last few days have been spent filling, preparing and painting the inner lining walls of the boot. The outer surfaces have been painted red-brown to match the colour of the original (mostly rotted or split) wall panels. I applied two coats of the brown to seal the plywood properly. The inside faces are in white undercoat, awaiting the correct ochre brown final colour. Next I turned my attention to the left-hand (nearside) boot door and found that it was just as poor a fit as the right hand door. This necessitated removal of material from the bottom of the door frame, the boot floor sill and the top left-hand (curved) corner of the door aperture. It is impossible to see how the door can ever have fitted properly with the body frame the dimensions it has now.
23/6/2020
I fitted some support for the bottom of the curved lining panel to stiffen a bit where it meets the floor and to fill the gap at the bottom. This was fitted from the outside, so I can run sealant around the inside at floor level. I still need to put a couple of screws into the mid-level support for the lining panel and open out the hole for the tail lights.
Late morning I filled over the fibreglass repair to the gangway support in the boot, it will need a final finish tomorrow before painting but is just about done.