Mk1 1.6 Gti Project Rot Box!!! BAD NEWS!!

Welding upside down is a hassle. Is it possible to re-jig the job so you're welding from the top & inside of the car? Or turn the car upside down (no I'm not joking - people have done it!).

Nothing worse than lying on your side trying to weld.

Especially when a ball of red hot steel ends up going down you ear hole and fizzes on your eardrum :cry:  :cry:

its all part of the fun getting weld splatter burning some skin from having to be about 6" from where your welding :mrgreen:

keep up the good work

no matter what i do looks like i'm gonna have a lot of fun.

of course i'll be wearing a welding mask as you normally do when your welding. :roll:

looking forward to this job :?

one big learning curve

bought 2 new wishbones today and some brake disc back plates off crazy gonna give the fronts suspension a revamp while it's all in bits!

i was welding and grinding under my mk1 and got 15 bits of metal in my left eye , it took a week to get it all out lol .

All the best with the welding then.

well i've been a busy boy again!!!!

started by striping the interior and carpets out so i can get busy without damaging things



3 out of the 4 footwell were wet!!!! so the sound deadening is in the bin and carpet on the line all day drying.

found this in the other footwell



something esle to add to my long list of things to do  :mrgreen:

took some of the pedals off but couldn't get the brake pedal off :dontknow:  



after cleaning up



made a new bit



after making alot of sparks



also need to make good both side of the footwell, sun was going down fast so i retired to the shed and painted some things up



happy with what i've done today and hopefully i'll get a good few hours tomorrow too  

any comments???

You've got your work cut you there mate (no pun intended!)

Look forward to seeing the progress :wink:

i admire people like you more than people like adaptor man. you've brought a car to use and maintain it along the way. alot of people would have seen half of what you've seen and given up. you've seen it all and still you soldier on,


you sir, i respect.

i wouldn't say i've seen it all, by the time i've finshed i think i might have tho  but thanks for the kind comment.

looks like you've got a welding job on as well!!!!! :wink:

more of a update tomorrow hopefully

mines nowhere near as scary as yours

it's not scary!!!!

just another challenge for me. that why i bought a mk1 golf.

my other car is so boring

mine aint, done head gasket just over a month ago that aint boring. took a days work before i even got to remove the head.

todays effort!!!

put the underside repair on, guess what it still fits 8O  8O



after i welded and clean it up!



view from the inside…!



cleaned and painted.



not painted the underside yet as i'm waiting on some seam sealer to turn up.

today effort was cut sort as i made a trip to machine mart to have a look at buying a welder rather than lending one off my mate.

any comments????

lookoing good mate. now putting up new pics of mine.

Alot of things happened today starting to look better in my opinion.

started off by getting rid of this messy bit



chopped out! 8O  8O



new piece in::::



cleaned up



happy with that so now i started on the inner sill



chopped it out and new piece in all cleaned up!! well happy  



got it all in place, tacked it, whacked it cleaned it up!! :dance:



seam sealer had turned up so slapped a bit of that on top and bottom





then out came the anti rust paint top and bottom, painting upside down is not that easy got it all over me and the floor





thats as far as i got today thought i did pritty good of a novice, tomorrow morning the anti rust should be dry so i'll slap some underseal on the bottom and spray the footwell out all being well.

at one point today i was litery on fire, to many sparks on the trousers and they when up i n flames, oh well  :dontknow:  :dontknow:

any comments??? :mrgreen:  :mrgreen:

Looks a tidy repair, well done.

fully painted today, that about all i could manage far to much ale last night :naughty:

inside!



couple coats of underseal



going for the rebuild next weekend,
not sure weather to have new discs and pads tho :scratch:

what you lot reakon????

Looks great now painted and new discs and pads, why not.

jellybelly said

going for the rebuild next weekend,
not sure weather to have new discs and pads tho :scratch:

what you lot reakon????

Yeah, pop down to kwik fit!  :wink: