The Triumph Dolomite Club - Discussion Forum

...you really are putting myself and my son to shame

....all we've done in two weeks is bought 2 cars ( ..one was a VW Derby - my son's dream car...!)

...looked at the sections of concrete covered in snow and Ice that is my garage.....thought.." ...Nah...tomorrow" for three days in a row....

...and drank a lot of tea while sucking in a lot of air saying to ourselves " oooo...cold out there! "

Honestly, what a big bunch of pinky-waving-sandel-wearing-shandy-drinking-poooftars we are!

SandglowISnice! wrote:Great work there - that's never your first go...? is it....?

yes it is.

most of the skilled work is being done by bodywork man Alan. basically i usually measure up what size the repair patch needs to be, cut it, bend it if it needs it, and use shrinking/stretching to shape it if it needs it. he then welds it to the car and bashes it about to fit with a great deal of precision. also im usually on grinding, removing filler(of which there is a large amount), and general dressing duties.

although im fully expecting him to say that im going to be welding tomorrow...

Good luck...

...and don't forget - anything better than an arthritic monkey is a good weld!

SandglowISnice! wrote:Good luck...

...and don't forget - anything better than an arthritic monkey is a good weld!

haha thanks . more updates tomorrow evening! hoping to have a complete passenger rear wing byt the end of tomorrow

hello again!


more piccies


plate to replace the missing bit of the inner arch in the boot


getting there....



bigger hole!



if you squint it looks like a dolomite!



bootlid put in to make sure everything is the right shape...







hope to hear your opinions!

Looking good

Making me really envious by the progress....

Looking good

Making me really envious by the progress....

Fantastic, quality resto work.. Some very clever people out there.

Fabulous thread...please keep the pics coming.

Reg wrote:Fantastic, quality resto work.. Some very clever people out there.

Fabulous thread...please keep the pics coming.

Thanks . I was getting quite excited about it yesterday.

More pictures next week. I want to be there now though!

a big update tonight as lots of progress happened

rough cut of repair section



accurate cut



TIG....



more TIG.....after having made the two panels flush with each other



getting there....



yay!



mmm..



what join?



club repair panel....



more TIG...



tadaaaa!



in need of grinding....



thats enough bodywork for now . here is the radiator for the car. at some point i will take this down to the workshop to offer it up and work out how it will mount!



sorry about the long post!

Pete.

Please don't apologise for posting too much - we cannot get enough of this stuff.

As for that wing repair.....as Eric Morecambe would say "You can't see the join!".

thanks Alan. . spread the word! i want as many opinions as possible

more photos!

hideous patch....



hideous patch gone!



repair to boot floor and wheel arch



from other side...



inner arch(on its side)



i hope you like! more tomorrow



Pete

Here's how I tackled fitting the Fiesta rad to my car, inspired (and not entirely copied) by Jeroen.

Simple aluminium frame made to be snug and riveted around the rad itself, two brackets riveted to either side at the top of the frame, with captive fixings fitted to the car. One central bracket underneath that I then welded a pickup point onto the inner front panel for, unhelpfully I can't find any pictures of it now, but it's not terribly hard to imagine.

Oli_88 wrote:Here's how I tackled fitting the Fiesta rad to my car, inspired (and not entirely copied) by Jeroen.

Simple aluminium frame made to be snug and riveted around the rad itself, two brackets riveted to either side at the top of the frame, with captive fixings fitted to the car. One central bracket underneath that I then welded a pickup point onto the inner front panel for, unhelpfully I can't find any pictures of it now, but it's not terribly hard to imagine.

i'll keep this in mind

.....for a minute there, I thought Pete was in a one of the Hot parts of the world, like our Oz cousins...

...which would have accounted for all the hard work he's put in so far, and made me even more envious than I am at the moment.....

....then I realised it was Oli's post....

...so I suppose he's just Northern....and used to the cold!