New radiator and spheres. The two front mounted spheres must be fun to change with the radiator in.
The very, very rusty looking front strut tops removed, de-rusted, inspected and painted. The pipe banjo bolts were so rusted on the pipes started twisting, so a blast with the blowlamp was the only way to undo them.
The Exhaust patched up. I was having loads of trouble with my MIG welder, so resorted to Arc welding the stainless patches... I have since fixed the MIG welder, which had a kinked torch liner, the gas tube had come off inside the torch lead, the wire feeder was slipping and gas was escaping from the regulator...
Rather than upgrade to a Euro-torch, I've now bought another MIG welder as well, so have now gone from no working MIG welder to two...along with two arc welders as well. Just need a gas kit for the DC-MMA and TIG welding should be on the cards.
Due to the welder playing up, I put off looking at the towbar mountings.
I wasn't sure whether the rear chassis rails were corroded, or just crushed. Who makes a towbar to mount like this?
So far i've had limited success in beating the chassis rail back into shape, so probably need to look at patching it. There isn't any rust, just deformed metal.
