Tag Archives: body frame

1/7/2020

The last two days have been spend making the steel sill cover, which is now complete and the underneath surface primed, and adjusting the fit of the left-hand boot door.  I have now removed the outer skin of this and marked up where the catch should be in the boot floor.  There is still some work to do replacing the screws to the door frame in the centre hinge and relieving the aperture frame a bit more around the top left-hand curved corner.

15/5/2020

This week has seen a lot of activity but not much progress.  The boot floor is complete, three reinforcement blocks were needed to pull the floorboards down level with each other and some final sanding to get them smooth for the lino.

Next job was to remove the remaining rotten plywood from the inner curved corner lining, ready for replacement from material on order.  This work included removing the remains of the wiring to the S&T lights (see reference photos) and the junction box mounted on the door frame outer pillar.  A replacement identical junction box was sourced from Classic & Vintage spares but with six instead of for terminals to allow for additional wiring.  I will add in a separate switch for the boot light at some point.

Work then moved on to replacing  the rotten horizontal timber  that sits above the rear number plate box and below the rear window.  The damaged sections of this needed to be cut away with surgical precision to avoid damaging the rear window glass.  A separate piece of timber with a forward facing rounded moulding sits under the glass on top of the horizontal frame timber to provide a seat for the glass and to provide an abutment inside the window frame for the glass.

6/5/2020

Yesterday I finished screwing the boot floor OS  perimeter rail in place.  Today was spent finishing the joints to ensure the side pillars line up correctly for the cladding panels and packing any gaps in the joints.  Late afternoon today I removed the rearmost boot floorboard as it is rotten all the way across.  This gave me access to the top of the chassis at this point, where a lot of corrosion growth was evident between the insulator and the boot floor support.   I removed the insulator and the corrosion growth and treated the chassis top surface with Vactan.