The Wifes Worst Nightmare 83 Full Resto by Minidarren83

3 minute(s) of a 192 minute read

cheers for the comments i know what you mean about lurkers i am one lol

carlos w my wife hates it she refused to even look at it for months and to fund it i had to give up my pride and joy

proper gutted but hopefully it will be worth it in the end although all the cash raised from selling has gone plus about 800 more as i had to buy everything from tools to the car and panels and ive still got lots left to buy and the worst thing is the engine i bought is looking like a bad egg but i will see more when i fully srtip it its pretty hard to turn over by hand and there is some suspect marks in the bores. im not using books or manuals just bits ive picked up along the years of bike building and reading on here although i was not prepered for how this the bodywork is and hos easy it is to blow through when welding but getting there now
hopefully more over the weekend

7-21-2012

cheers guys thanks for the comments and encouragements. so far i am realy enjoying it i dont follow sports or anything like that i never have done and this is what i enjoy doing ive always messed with my cars and bikes and scratch built a couple of streetfighter style bikes. having said that i am sure that when i mess things up as i normaly do i will wish i never started it lol

anyway enough of that got in the garage last after work for half an hour before the wife got home and cut and tacked in one of the patches needed before fitting the toe board

started with cutting a cardboard template

then transfered to steel from an old roof panel it will be cleaned off properly before full welding lol

then using my hitech clamping device following on from grahama i set it in place i must get some of them magnet things lol

then plenty of tacks and this is as far as i got

i must admit that my panel cutting skills are something to be desired but nothing that cant be tidied up with a bit of weld and a flap disc lol hopefully should get it fully seamed in tomorrow