dunderhead
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Good afternoon ladies and gents
I'm using my virus lockdown time to try and make progress on my automotive projects and I've worked my way round to my much neglected Imperial. As a quick recap, I bought an imperial that someone has "rat-look"-ed not my thing but they're rare cars in the UK so I got it hoping i can make sensible alterations. Its largely solid but has a few nasty rust areas and that is what I'm tackling first. She'll never be a concourse show car, I just want her to be safe and my repairs to last...
The drives and passenger floors are rotten to the point of having big holes. I've traced the rust and its seem to be caused by a different hole at the base of windscreen on either side. Water has been coming in here and sitting on the floor.
On the drivers side there is a hold big enough to stick you hand through, the whole side of the drivers footwell wall has lots of surface rust, but actually seems fairly solid, presumably the water has drained down here but not sat on the surface.
The passenger side initially seemed in a lot better shape but that was a largely that a thick layer of aftermarket paint was holding stuff together. One prod with a screw driver and it wasnt too far behind it's brother.
I'm not particularly experienced with this sort of thing but I've bought the car as a project to learn with. I was hoping to outline my plan of attack and you guys either set me straight or fill-in some more details.
There seems to a metal panel at the base of the screen and joins the firewall. It would appear this is supposed to extent out underneath the front wings join. It seems like the final few inches of this are missing. So my thoughts were remove the front wings. Weld in new metal to complete the panel back out underneath the wings and remount the wings. Simples.
# The panel in question seems fairly strong everywhere except the far corners, so i should be able to grind back to good metal.
# I'm assuming I need to remove the wings completely to access the panel and the new metal on the panel will need to be "trapped" under the wing.
Assuming that is correct does anyone have a good guide on how to remove the wings. I caught sight of one or two bolts in unusual places so I'm wonder if there are more. Apart from rmoving the head lights, bumper and grill I there much else I need to do.
Any help greatly received.
I'm using my virus lockdown time to try and make progress on my automotive projects and I've worked my way round to my much neglected Imperial. As a quick recap, I bought an imperial that someone has "rat-look"-ed not my thing but they're rare cars in the UK so I got it hoping i can make sensible alterations. Its largely solid but has a few nasty rust areas and that is what I'm tackling first. She'll never be a concourse show car, I just want her to be safe and my repairs to last...
The drives and passenger floors are rotten to the point of having big holes. I've traced the rust and its seem to be caused by a different hole at the base of windscreen on either side. Water has been coming in here and sitting on the floor.
On the drivers side there is a hold big enough to stick you hand through, the whole side of the drivers footwell wall has lots of surface rust, but actually seems fairly solid, presumably the water has drained down here but not sat on the surface.
The passenger side initially seemed in a lot better shape but that was a largely that a thick layer of aftermarket paint was holding stuff together. One prod with a screw driver and it wasnt too far behind it's brother.
I'm not particularly experienced with this sort of thing but I've bought the car as a project to learn with. I was hoping to outline my plan of attack and you guys either set me straight or fill-in some more details.
There seems to a metal panel at the base of the screen and joins the firewall. It would appear this is supposed to extent out underneath the front wings join. It seems like the final few inches of this are missing. So my thoughts were remove the front wings. Weld in new metal to complete the panel back out underneath the wings and remount the wings. Simples.
# The panel in question seems fairly strong everywhere except the far corners, so i should be able to grind back to good metal.
# I'm assuming I need to remove the wings completely to access the panel and the new metal on the panel will need to be "trapped" under the wing.
Assuming that is correct does anyone have a good guide on how to remove the wings. I caught sight of one or two bolts in unusual places so I'm wonder if there are more. Apart from rmoving the head lights, bumper and grill I there much else I need to do.
Any help greatly received.
