Thought I'd best start a separate thread to keep you in the loop of my progress in giving Blue some long overdue TLC.
Apart from the initial pressure wash when she got home last Saturday and relieving the floor of half an inch of mud a rotary wire brush on a cordless screw driver is my weapon of choice at the moment. (you have to be cruel to be kind
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I have been digging into a couple of areas this week and found following :
Joblist :a) Floor pan drivers side weak and rusted through in several places
b) Rear OS wing above plastic arches rust resulting in going into 3 holes
c) Front NS wing @ bulkhead just in front of top door hinge, severe rust going through and through
d) Rear at bottom near fuel filler cap and opposite near number plate rust going into hole.
e) Miscellaneous small & large bubbles paint in various places.
f) Bottom needs brushing mud & crap off and re-protecting
g) Inside tub from under dash upto raised step to rear bench needs re-protecting.
h) both seats needs re-covering in leather
i) loose wiring under dash needs tidying up.
j) Install CD/Radio and new speakers
k) When inside tub is protected apply floor covering
l) Mirror polish rims[/s] done
m) Mirror polish SS bits aquired from Bubba and fit (hinges, heater air intake and cover, rear bottom corner trims, os & ns rear mirrors, etc...)
n) Take off front bumper, sandblast and re-painting
o) Fabricate SS tubular mirror polished thick walled side rails
p) Fabricate SS tube half (safari) doors
q) Re-paint seat frames satin black and re-fit
r) Full re-spray.
s) Full polish of clear coat
t) aquire & fit new rear shock absorbers
u) repair rear os roll bar @ tub attachment (rust)
v) repair fuel & temp gauges or fit whole new speedo clock
w) touch up all paint damage & scuffs on interior[/s]
x) Make some sort of all weather cover for back end when using bikinitop only. (tonneau cover ?)
y) floor cover trims & tidy up
z)
Having crawled over and under her all week she is in really good nick and all body repairs are pretty superficial in the greater scheme of things. The rest is just tidying up, protect against further attacks of metal moth , enhancing & improving.
The only drawback is that I have to be here 8 hours a day but I've still got 7 days holiday to burn before X-mas
Watch this space
