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Replacing a Sill on a Classic

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muky-kid.:
:( My god that brings painful memories back. You see i did the same job on a classic 2dr about 2 years ago. The job from start to finish took about 4 months, ended up replaceing inner/outer sills both sides, both front inner wings, replacement panels were grafted to the bottom of the A posts and B posts, both the footwells were replaced and last but not least the rear cross member. Once this little lot was fitted and welded up, i gave the rangie a good phew coats of black smooth hammerite on chassis and any exposed places underneith i even stripped the hole interior out and did the same inside with matching colour to exterior, rear floor out and fuel tank, Then i covered the underneith with black stone chip spray and painted over that as well. The mud never stuck after all that just simply slipped off. I must admit it did look nice when i finnished the project, Sadly ive only 1 or 2 pictures of it before i sold it to a mate of mine. Who bobtailed it sprayed it bright yellow then got hit by a run away driver and now the rangie is off the road due to an insurance investigation on the runaway driver. A sad story indeed. If a jobs werth doing do it well it will last longer. In the end i added up the receipts and i was shocked at how much ide spent on the thing (its the odds and sods that mount up every old bolt was replaced with new etc).  Good luck with yours it will be worth the blood sweat and tears in the end.

keithdixon:
thanks for reminding me,

but your right, if it's worth doing it's got to be done.

3 months (tut NO)

got the outer Sill,

the inner Sill is ok, floor panel (below the pedals are to be patched)  reat inner wing (to be patched) the rest is ok

i have to say that it will be patched in such a way as to allow an easy replacement of wings in the future.


(yes my welding is that bad)

but to be honest, i was trained as a maintenance engineer and was taught to do the job properly, so whatever it is do it right then you should never need to revisit

rgs

keith dixon

muky-kid.:
:D It took 4 months because i only had time to do anything the odd weekend other wise it should have only taken a couple of weeks start to finnish. The only problem was, the more i looked the more rust i found, but thats expected on a neglected 23 year old classic.

muky-kid.:
:D Here is a picture of my old blue classic after the resto, the white bobtail was my mates and as you can see on pic the amount he had taken of the front and rear.

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