New SJ owner - couple of q’s

 

So here she is on the sellers drive. New wings on it, and new cills. Overall seemed pretty solid and had a rebuilt motor. 

   

Body off and after a few days… cleaned stripped hammerite and raptored. 

 

       

Started with the toe board to sort a bijou hole out. Seems to have patched in ok…

               

Todays progress. Stripped the body mount out and cut out the outer skin. Rebuilt the floor lip in a couple of places butt welding in new metal. 
Pulled a load of junk out of the petrol filler area, and then drilled out the spot welds to the arch. 
Cut the arch out through an awful lot of filler. 
Tommorow I’ll finish the edges of the floor and when I’ve got some new slitting discs I’ll remove the rest of the scuz round the body side. Should have new panels next week and I can then cleco it all up and start to stitch in. Then the other side… 

We’ve owned it 2 weeks so far!

Last couple of days progress. T case in tear down for the SUMO gears. Back brakes stripped and rebuilt. New exhaust hung and started on getting the front bumper on and well aligned. 

Waiting on a box of panels from india, reckon we could have the tub back on the chassis in a couple of weeks. We’ll see how it goes.

       

Back brakes back together and a delicious cheeky yellow to peep past the brakes.
We are aiming for a stock + feel…

New product panels from India look nice quality and should nail on fairly easy…