Here I welded a 5mm plate to both sides of the rear for strength  and for piece of mind really,

More rust replaced,

Now to do the same on the passanger side.

Here I decided to weld a plate to strengthen the inner side of the frame as I thought the frame was a bit weak here.

I cleaned it up and spray galvanized what I had welded in.

Here are a few shoots of the frame back from sandblasting and cold zinc galvanizing.

More work here to be tackled in time to come.

We lifted the frame onto a frends trailer to breing it to the blasters.

Here the frame is in the blasting booth (bad phone pic)

Here all the parts are back from the blasters all galvanized,

Chassis repair

Here is a before and after,

Here is mount No.1 under repair,

And here it is repaired,just to drill out the hole.

   This is the only frame rot I found underneath the frame.

Now to start at the rear end.

Not looking so good.

looking a bit better,

 

Underneath frame repair done.

Next job are the rotten sombreros.

All the rust has been cut out here.

I reckon I'll brace this area a bit,it looks a bit factory structurally weak.

here all the rust has been cut out ready for repair.

Chassie strip down,

Firstly I removed the engine and gearbox,

Here is a pic of the complete chassis/frame.

Firstly I positioned the axle stands to support the chassis.

Next I removed the wheels,

Completly removed and dismantled the front end,

A sot ot earth lead,hand brake cable mount and my foot :)

Woops! chassis slightly off balance,

Time to remove the diff,

Here is a pic of a frail trailing arm.

I didnt even try to remove this body mount bolt as the frame was so rotten the body lifted straight off it.

Finally the chassis is stripped of all parts,

I will dismantle the trailing arms at a later date,

Man this cross member sure does not want to come off without putting up a battle,

But I won the battle with a poter power.

Chassis inspection can begin.