Advice required on welding holes in my Manta floor panel

[MSG]

Its a scaled model i should have said, sorry, but that colour and the wheels look real good on that.

[blueosis1]

if you take the front bumper off you can fire waxoil or dinitrol down the chassis leg with a long extension from the front.it should run out the drain holes further back under the car.

[daddy cav]

were you talking to yourself then? (re your sig)

Why is that MSG ?

[8valve-craig]

Got the car back now, I will post some pictures of the welding the guy did, get ready for the horror scenes! BTW, the amount of CO2 used canister I supplied as well and only 66gm was used up from 350gm cylinder. So I have plenty left to do my own clean up. pics will be taken tommorrow as its been raining and still is.


Just found this pic of a replica model of GTE, on sale on ebay, wish i could restore mine to this standard:

I wonder how rusty that one is ?

Sorry, my fault. I have a funny sense of humour.

[MSG]

Why is that MSG ?

I was referring to your signatures, where your neighbour thought he heard voices, hence were you talking to yourself? lol!

[daddy cav]

Ah right .

[MSG]

If people keep misunderstanding me and Steve, we will both have to see a physchitrist I think! (lol)

[garymanc]

not the best job in the world but as you say it now has a MOT ,i think you will find most garages don't do welding so your 100 % happy... at least you cut the rot out and treated it as some garages just plate over the rot........
now remove your battery ,washer bottle, wings and boot carpet if you have one and see if theres any rust.
i think i would hammerite smooth paint the floor wells inside and should be fine as long as you keep your eye on the water getting into the car.
nice kittens by the way

[MSG]

Thanks gary, My battery tray is Ok apart from a minor surface rust, that i can scrape off and rust proof with hammerite or some other smooth paint. I know there is a hole behind the washer bottle that you can see through into the car just behind the dash, and close to the brake servo but not effecting the servo bracket and strengthening piece, so this I will tackle myself, and as for rust behind the front wings or arches, yes there is again surface rust that if not treated now will develop into major rust and the car would be useless.

MY boot is relatively rust free, just a bit at the rear panel seam, the floor is OK, the spare wheel pocket that sticks out towards the road from underneath has some minor rust broken through, that i could patch up from inside and fill from the outside and spray.

Any idea mate where i can get the driver's side door rubberers? the seal that runs all the way from the roof channel to the door sides and then the bottom is screwed on with a trim, mine is in a bit of state.

Obviously the roof is the next thing i need to sort out as there is now a big hole through which rain can enter,I will need to remove the roof lining to patch up from the bottom after treating with rust killer.

[daddy cav]

Awesome cats
Our 2 Sisters are just over a year old now .

[MSG]

thanks, got two brothers and 1 sister, got to keep an eye on them brothers!! lol

(better if they both turn up gay!!)

[garymanc]

Any idea mate where i can get the driver's side door rubberers? the seal that runs all the way from the roof channel to the door sides and then the bottom is screwed on with a trim, mine is in a bit of state.

you should able to get them from Startseite but they wont be cheap
Woolies Trim i also found this site you may able to make a repair to yours if you can find the right profile off seal

[MSG]

Its been a miserable old day, been drizzling all day, and in a way better because I haven't yet put all the carpets back in as I wanted to touch up the wleds and tidy them up before sealing them properly, so went into the car and saw a few puddles of water collecting in both front foot wellls, as well as the driver's side rear, after i got the MOT done, i removed the seats again to continue to sort out the rest of the car, but for the time being the project is on a hold due to getting busy at work. Once the job pressure is gone I will be back on the case, but it does mean it will be winter months!

Thanks for the links and will check those up. (one of the reasons why i am getting a puddle when it rains heavy, due to water getting in through the door seals when it rains hard sideways) and the other places where the water is getting in is from the rear quarter driver's side window, and both front splash panels, the areas hust where the brake pedals and servo are fitted, so there must be some way from where the water is getting inon both sides, on the pasenger side it is around the battery tray from the water is running in.

[rc]

here is the pic of my passenger side flor panel patched up, not as what i expeceted,

you paid for that??? thats pretty gash!

[8valve-craig]

tut...

[Steve!]

I said that Ronnie

[MSG]

I am gutted but it will be tackled to a better standard so it will be all ripped out and redone.

[stuarty1981]

looks like the welder wasnt putting out enough gas or ran out half way through

[MSG]

some of the welds are quite porous, hence as you said he either didn't use enough or not at all, i supplied him with my new Mig welder plust the gas, i weighed the gas cylinder before supplying it to him and up on his return weighed again and he seemed to have used only 66gms of gas from a net weight of 390 gms of gas in the container.

double work for me now, but I had no choice other than to send the car somewhere off road ao as to get it welded to the extent that it secures an MOT and so I can tax the car, sadly i don't have a choice for an off street parking or a garage where I can work from, I enquired for some garges around most are for parking only you can hire for around 50 quid a month, no electricity and so are useless for doing any repair work, plus the hirer won't allow you do any work on cars.

[8valve-craig]

no updates on this then no?

[MSG]

no mate, other things have cropped in, the weather is rubbish, rain and windy! i pitty those with garages!! lol

[Brian_S]

I am gutted but it will be tackled to a better standard so it will be all ripped out and redone.

Why? You're going to shove a carpet over it. So long as it passes an MOT and your passengers feet don't flintstone through the floor what does it matter?

It's not the best job in the world, but it's not going to fall off.

[MSG]

I guess you are right, I am probably being too paranoid about quality of weld, if it does the job then so be it. I will still need to tidy up a bit in some places where he has done a pretty bad job.