Wednesday

Finally got a tank of shielding gas to start mig. I leased an 80 cu ft tank for a year and I just pay for refills. Here's the result...

 Cut holes in passenger panel for radio

 Covered driver's panel in vinyl. Passenger panel still needs to be done

 Passenger floor is almost done

I'm starting to get the hang of it, but it's going to take some practice. I'll probably be back at it tomorrow...

Weekend Progress

I need shielding gas so I can get welding.      

 Passenger scuttle cut to fit

Driver scuttle cut to fit 

 New door sill I fabricated

 New floor pan section I fabricated

 Anchored gauge assembly in the middle and cut a filler piece for the right side. I'm going to cover both filler panels in black textured vinyl

 Bracket to hold flitch panel in place

 Cleaned this panel and around the windshield frame

 Radiator, upper and lower hoses, and t-stat and housing removed. I'm going to replace all coolant hoses, the water pump, t-stat, cap, belt and fan blade

Front of mini. I also removed the lip from the side panels that was left from the fenders

Monday & Tuesday's Progress

Got more rust cut out of the car and fabbed a sheet metal pieces for the rear...

 Lovely

 Cut out more of door sill

 Rear quarter was blistering here, also found rust lurking inside

 Removed instrument cluster

 Put spacers on the steering column bracket to lower the column.

 Greased the bushing

 New center section I made to be welded in 

Right side boot floor panel I made

 Two together. I'll probably need to trim the outer edge back a bit but I wanted to leave plenty of length

  New panel I made for right rear

 This is what I made for the other side. I might try to salvage this one as it isn't as bad as it looks. We'll see...

I probably won't really get to work on the car much today or tomorrow, but I'm not on call this weekend so I should make some good progress. I'm going to set up the welder this weekend for mig using co2 for now...

Progress Friday to Sunday

Not much on the car. Today and friday I had a few calls to run, and saturday I spent most of the day running and hooking up the electric.

 Windshield out

 Side windows out

 Rear window out

 Showing new tie bar, braided brake line and shock absorber

 New master cylinder

 I put in three new outlets with a new wire from the panel box for the air compressor and the welder

 Welder and accessories

 Rear valence cut out

 New rear valence to go in

 One of the dividers up

Cut out most of the rust on the passenger side in the floor pan. Still a little more to go...

I also tried welding for the first time today. Right now the welder is set up for flux cored welding, which I did decently with on the 16 gauge metal. Couldn't get the lighter 22 gauge to weld up though; just had lots of holes. I'm gonna set the welder up this weekend for mig once I get a bottle of gas.

I have the day off tomorrow so I plan to get more rust cut out and ready to weld...