Passanger side No.3 body mount all rot removed.

Here I now have taken back the fiiberglass for when re-glassing,

Most of the pillar is rust free,

Finally got around to cleaning off all the windscreen selant,and good news! the frame has no rust,

Sticky stuff what ever they used.

I am making replacement parts for where I have cut out the rot,eg:body mounts,

As you can see above how bad the rust was but its being replaced with 2mm sheet steel,

All rust removed with handy die grinder and new piece to be welded in,

A quick test fit before I tack it into position,

Looks a bit better now,

Same as above done here on the drivers side,

This is the new piece I made tacked into place to replace the very rotten piece under the door sill I cut out earlier,

This is a better pic of the sill piece I made to fit under the sill before installation,

 looking better now all cleaned up,

This is under body mount 2,

Here is where the seatbelt reinforcment was,

This is the new piece I am just test fitting before it also gets a coat of galvanize spray before final fitting,

Both left and right parts are sprayed with a few coats after wipe down,

The replacement sill piece I made also got a wipe down and spray,

Once all welding was done,it was thoroughly cleaned and spray galvanized,

Now looks as good as second hand :)

Another shot of passanger side body mount No.3

Under side of body mount No.2 on drivers side

Here it the rust has now been cut out.

Another bit of rust to be dealt with!

Here now all the rust has been cut out

No.4 body mount holes in the body were torn to pieces,so I just cut out the damaged fiberglass,it will be repaired at a later date.

Inside the passanger rear wheel arch had a hole from possiably something that got cought with the wheel so I cut that out also.

This was when I was about to put the body onto the dolly to size it up.

The seat bolt braces were compleatly rotten through and will be removed.

Here I decided to give the the pillar a bit of a clean up to inspect it a bit better

Body now removed from frame.

Now that the body is off it can bee seen from the pic above the rust was so bad that it was only gravity keeping the body on : )

Here you can see No.2 the body mount bolt  which was rust seized into place.

Windsceern now removed to check out frame (all good).

Next job was to remove No.3 access panel for greater access,

Now that it is removed I have great access to the cage,

Here is a closer shot of what is left of the rail,

Not much metal here,mostly rust.

There was a load fo fine sand and dirt holding moisture in the No.3 mounts which would have been the main cause of such bad rust.

Here is the car on the quickly thrown together dolly I made (not finished yet).

I had removed the doors before I mounted the body on the dolly,

This gave greater access to the bird cage to check out other rust areas.

Once I had removed the fiberglass piece it exposed more rust on the No.2 body mount,

Here is a pic from the inside,I have a bit of work ahead of me here.

Here again the air tool with a cobalt bit comes in handy.

Here now we have the rust removed back as far as the good metal.

A close up

Here is more rust being cut out.

From under.

All rust removed.

Not much room to work at times between a tractor and baler,

A shot of the complete chassie without body.

Here on the passenger side No.3 body mount I used a air chisel

Here is a shot after cutting thr most of thr bad rust out.