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Old May 7th, 2018, 14:24   #221
Army
marches on his stomach
 

Last Online: Feb 11th, 2022 03:15
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Somewhere in the Netherlands
Default Too sunny for this...

...but I did go off to do something today

I should have been on the beach! Instead I was scraping bitumastic goo off the inside of the roof



Oh how I wish I could go back in time and buy some decent paint stripper - this is taking for flipping ever.

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Anyway to cheer me self up I decided to make a small modification to the car.

I'm not 100% certain yet whether I'm going to do the same to the other side of the front cross member but this was what I was thinking about =>



Just a bit of 1mm steel to cover over the open end.

The original cross member tube had holes in the underside but this didn't stop water and muck from settling inside and eventually rotting through. The new part (that I bought at great expense) doesn't have holes in it - so I was thinking seal up the ends and squirt in Dinitrol...



See what I mean?

I think I might just go for half a plastic bung for the other side to make the squirting of Dinitrol easier - but then again I might make it a bit more symmetrical and weld on a bit of sheet on the other end...


What do you think?

What would you do?
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