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Re: Heatwave 76 Gina I got a Cortina...................
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2022 7:22 am
by 8BAK465
Warren t claim wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 9:53 pm
The chassis outriggers were like Play Doh on mine. Luckily it came with replacements.
Mine has what i was told a new outrigger in the boot
But it was way longer
After checking underneath the underseal is flaking off the outriggers but they had a dammed good smack from an MOT style hammer
and though covered in flash rust seem rock solid
So upon checking out the part number it seems its a LH Chassis repair section (the longitudinal member that runs between both outriggers and front chassis legs.
not sure if LH is from drivers point of view or looking at car from front but neither are rotten
However the passengers side had two dents in it yet its still rock solid it looks like it was jacked up in the wrong place.
But it doesn't appear to have affected any strength so dont know really.
Once I have addressed the grot up top and stabilised it in a traditional banger fashion ill take a closer look.
Boy I am having far too much fun with this fine car
Re: Heatwave 76 Gina I got a Cortina...................
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2022 10:01 am
by 8BAK465
So another little update on progress with the photos getting more and more like a Hammer House of Horror production
So did i say there were a few holes here and there?
I am grinding back and loosing the metal but coating with Jenonite as I go along turn the rust a lovely shade of black
So the sills from what i can make out one good one bad
It doesn't look so bad here but this one has ventilation underneath and you can see the "structural" filler is starting to crack under the bit I removed
Will get a photo on the next roll of film
This I think stems from that dog leg at the base of the front nearside wing
I cleaned out the hole a bit after the departure of the breakaway filler separatist group
Wasn't much point of Jelonite it needs cutting out and replacing but you can just about see the end brace is still there and might clean up once the grot has been cut out?
The rear arch dog leg near the rear door on NS is holed but once cut out plated and levelled out with filler the rest is solid so has been drowned in Jelonite
Next the bottom of the rear door has some of this new fangled "Air Conditionong" like they have in Rolls Royces
Its only on low in the rear
But is switched on full blast in the NS front door
But its not all bad news I have found some surprisingly solid areas I was expecting to be crunchy
More about those areas later
Re: Heatwave 76 Gina I got a Cortina...................
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2022 11:33 am
by NorfolkNWeigh
It’d be nice if you can get this finished for next summer , in time for its 15th birthday. You’ll be able to celebrate when we’re all celebrating the Silver Jubilee. Maybe respray it in Silver, that will be the colour of 1977, after all.
Re: Heatwave 76 Gina I got a Cortina...................
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2022 1:27 pm
by 8BAK465
NorfolkNWeigh wrote: ↑Wed Sep 14, 2022 11:33 am
It’d be nice if you can get this finished for next summer , in time for its 15th birthday. You’ll be able to celebrate when we’re all celebrating the Silver Jubilee. Maybe respray it in Silver, that will be the colour of 1977, after all.
Yes I want to enjoy the summer next year not sure about silver though I quite like the white.
Hoping to have it running and driving before that though it may be with red lead wings and bonnet
Re: Heatwave 76 Gina I got a Cortina...................
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2022 10:04 am
by 8BAK465
Re: Heatwave 76 Gina I got a Cortina...................
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2022 11:11 am
by 8BAK465
Last 3 from this 36 Roll
There's another being held ransom so more updates once I have got those back
So when the car arrived the Front Driver Door wouldn't lock or latch,Front Passenger would only open so far
Rear Passenger Door would unlatch but not let go and open
And Rear drivers Side was seized solid
One by one they have opened apart from the Rear drivers side well after prizing off the door panel which sadly broke its back board in the bottom corner getting it out with the door closed,peeling back the plastic behind and soaking the mechanism inside the door several times a day over a week and lying on the rear seat kicking the door my neighbour finally gave it the kick it needed,
And....................
Hoorah its open!
You might of noticed in the pics the boot lid was tied down to the bumper?
It was stored with the boot open which seized the lock solid
in the open position
So....
Its been removed and is in a jar or White Vinegar hopefully seeing the error of its ways
(only really took that pic to finish the film
)
We will see.......................................
More next week hopefully? Chop Chop Boots where are my Photos
Re: Heatwave 76 Gina I got a Cortina...................
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2022 10:22 am
by 8BAK465
So what have I been up to?
Well as you all know after this heatwave all its done the last few weeks is Rain
I am not sayings its no welcome but though the emergency water trailers at the end of the street have now gone the hosepipe bans still remain
And her at number 49 she would grass up her own shaddow
So I have turned my attention to inside and the carpets.
To say they were shabby is an understatement!
Not sure where the rust is coming from but it was all over the under dash shelf when I removed it as well as on the carpet
And on the drivers side its threadbare.
And the back Isn't much better
I had to remove the seat belt base bolts the one on the nearside passengers side came out really easy but the one on the drivers offside took a mechanic down the road a socket on the biggest breaker bar he had plus an extra long metal tube over the end sticking out of the rear door and above the roof before it gave up
But the carpets are out now and photos will follow but in the meantime I got sidetracked and took out the heater
More to come
Re: Heatwave 76 Gina I got a Cortina...................
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2022 11:06 am
by mercrocker
Not wishing to be an instructor of egg-sucking but that interior is gorgeous - you might want to store it elsewhere whilst prodding and poking with blunt instruments. Don't ask me how I know this, suffice to say I have a splendid irreparable gouge in my Cowley headlining (which couldn't be removed like the seats, sadly).
Re: Heatwave 76 Gina I got a Cortina...................
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2022 11:42 am
by 8BAK465
mercrocker wrote: ↑Tue Sep 27, 2022 11:06 am
Not wishing to be an instructor of egg-sucking but that interior is gorgeous - you might want to store it elsewhere whilst prodding and poking with blunt instruments. Don't ask me how I know this, suffice to say I have a splendid irreparable gouge in my Cowley headlining (which couldn't be removed like the seats, sadly).
Sadly nowhere to put them right now but before anything major happens they will be removed.
There is one cut in the seats but it was already there.
They are nice the seats though but might be investing in some covers for next summer so i dont melt to them
Re: Heatwave 76 Gina I got a Cortina...................
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2022 12:12 pm
by 8BAK465
So as I was saying I got sidetracked and upon finding there was rust leaking from the heater box thought it best to remove it
So took out the bolts disconnected the heater pipes from the in the engine bay and as it fell away from the inside of the plenum on the bulkhead then found I couldn't move it and it was jammed solid
Turned out the drivers side vent tube was trapped above the handbrake
So started to drop the handbrake the first screw come out second one had a rounded head
Dad kept telling me those Phillips headed screws were like the work of the devil and he didn't trust them and he loaned me a big flat head screwdriver and his junior hacksaw.
You need to cut a slot in it then it will come out with that screwdriver he enthused and he was right
But what a mess
I had to remove the blade from the hacksaw handle and sneak it though a gap I cut two slots neither in the middle and the second one did it
So then the heater could slide sideways to the passengers side but it was still stuck!
Turns out somebody (probably my Uncle Dick) had replaced a choke cable and routed it wrongly around the passengers side vent tube and through a gap in the middle of the heater box
So it was hanging up on that!
The choke was seized anyhow so I couldn't remove it from dash (ill worry about that later) so unhooked the other end from the Carburettor
Then removed glovebox liner and pulled it though
At last its Free
I think that will be a winter project to rebuild and refit