The Wifes Worst Nightmare 83 Full Resto by Minidarren83

3 minute(s) of a 192 minute read

well its been a while had a little break over the christmas period and just found it hard to get the time to make a go on it but had a week off this week and managed to steal today away from doing jobs around the house to work on the mini got 4 straight hours on it and am pleased with the progress so here it is

So i left it last time with the final fitting of the new inner wing and with a couple more clamps i was happy with the fit so marked it all up and drilled 78 holes in it ready for plug welding



and then filled in all the holes this was my first time using the new 0.8mm wire as it was all they had and my new 95% argon mix so after the first few looking like a bag of poo i set the welder up on some scrap and was ready to go again





and then after what seemed like an eternity of cleaning and a little bit of primer it was left looking like this



after cleaning up and flattening this it was fitted back on



a few seam welds up the inside



the front end is now solid as a rock and rot free so i am a very happy chappy. The last two panels to be done on the front end are the scuttle end and closure i had an hour left so made a start on the scuttle end and i need to ask how magnum even get away with selling these it took so much hammer work to get the pillar joint looking ok and it will still need some filler



i tried pulse welding with the new 0.8 wire and its going to take some getting used too blew a couple of holes but it will finish ok



and the pillar joint looks messy but i needed to add more weld to fill the gap from one to many hits of the hammer and punch



thats all for now good bit done today and should get the scuttle cleaned off soon

coments always welcome cheers darren