Yoshi

Looking forward to seeing the drawings

If the sills and front body mounts are ok, then its worth getting the rear welded up. I would have a serious poke about elsewhere to check if any more needs doing.
That part looks pretty easy to patch weld so shouldnt be a challenge for a good garage.

Compared to the 2006 project i have its really good :laugh: Have a scroll through this to see how rusty they can get: bigjimny.com/index.php/forum/18-build-thread/63372-ulysses

So bad i chopped a fairly big bit bit off :blink:

If incase you need to replace the rear body mounts
I have this lying around from a previous project I scrapped


Jack

Thanks guys,

Riccy, the front seams to have gotten away from the most of the rust. But hopefully this week end I can rip some panels off and have give the area around the body mounts a harsh brushing. If all is good, some waxoyl to hopefully keep them that way.

To confirm the front mounts are inside the front wheel arches, and the rear are near where I took my pics (visible in the pics I think).

I was on the verge of checking the door sills on the weekend just gone, but was annoyed so just packed up instead.

Jack, thanks for the offer I will keep it in mind. If I get a chance this weekend I am going to pull the tow bar out and give it all a proper look over and some waxoyl, but I am confident that the chassis is solid. My dad is an old mechanic repairing everything from massive excavators in mines to custom building race cars. He had a check over it when he was around and said it was solid in that department. Hopefully he was right and this is all just body stuff.

So following Riccy’s Advice I spent this afternoon checking the body mounts and all the wheel arches.

The left side isn’t as bad as the right but needs to be repaired as well. Where the rust goes up quite a lot on the right, the left side doesn’t, and it’s just the back.

The front arches and door sills were near perfect. Some surface rust that brushed off. Followed this up with some waxoyl.

Carried this on to as much of the underside as I could easily get to with out a ramp. Leaving the back where it needs to be welded.

Now to find a garage to weld up the bits I need doing.

Sounds like good news and good progress there, as well as a bit of elbow grease :laugh:

Welding isnt that hard. I have done a fair bit with a less than £200 welder and some metal plate