Ok, So a milestone this weekend it all started with...
Gave the primed panels a hover and a good wipe down with blue roll and panel wipe, then hooked up my new spray gun (I didn’t buy the gravity fed one as I was spraying upwards when spraying the roof!
And gave the whole interior three coats of Renault 647 pearl black (mixed to 60/40 with thinners) and left this to dry, then blew the gun through with thinners. Earlier that day I had bought 1.5 litres of 2 pac lacquer, 500mls of quick thinners and rocket activator, mixed these to the correct amounts and then gave all the panels two coats of lacquer. Good job I had my respirator on as the two pac lacquer is a killer!
I didn’t get any pics of just the car painted as the battery died but you can see the black paint in all the next pics J
So at 11am rich (Gib172) had driven down from Cumbria to weld the roll cage in for me! Before we could start welding we had to hook the air sander up to take the black paint off the roll cage mounting plates. Then we the help of three people we lifted the rear part of the cage into place, then the front hoop! We spent the best part of 40 minutes lining the cage up and making sure that all the joints where a snug fit. Then whilst taping the front mount with a hammer the fooking front hoop dropped onto my head, ouch... now have a melon sized lump on the back of my head)
Once it was all lined up and we had cleaned the pint of blood from my head up we could start welding the cage.
We started with the two mounts between the rear arches.
then the next two mounts above the rear axel
centre of the cage mounts
other side
one of the front left lower mount being welded in
roof mounts half way through..
sanding the paint off for the first door bar.. and the tips of the bar
one door bar welded in..
one side of the lower cross bar being welded in
my now melon head doing some filing prep for a weld
and some green dust all over the floor i had made LOL
second part of the door bar being welded in
other sides door bars in
random shots of the cage in
wana say thanks to Ad, Adam, Gib172 and sambo for the help yesterday