After debating whether it should go.........

Hi,

here is my 1.1GL that has been sat on my drive for the year and a half looking very sorry for itself.  I bought it off a friend for ?100 with the intentions of throwing money at it but as always……..NO.

Here what she looked like when my friend had it:




After being in a front end knock, my friend decided to change the car and leave it in her garage for a year before i had i took it off her. It was in a drivable state as you see:

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I polished her up and:




After some inspiration from the forum and managing to borrow a mig-welder i have decided to do the car some justice:

1.30pm:

3.00pm:

finding the dreaded filler!!!

5.00pm:



Looks like someone else has been here before, time for replacements me thinks:


I sanded it down to bare metal as little pockets of rust where showing, looks ok, but not too sure if i used too much of a harsh sander??!!!  

Anyone advise on the best way to cut the arches away? :dontknow:

Going to start on the passenger side tomorrow if its dry but seems to i need go and buy driver's sill, both arches, rear valance, fuel filler and possibly a front valence if i cant take one off a car i am breaking.

Dont know how to take the front valance off so some advice would be nice.  Please??? ops:

Managed to get some more sanding done today:



bit more rust on this side



Jacked it up and the floor pan went  






More filler and welding….



How i finished off….

looking good fella keep up the work

did you jack it on the floor pan?

did you sand it with an angle grinder ??  

No, i did it on the lip where you normally jack it up, so annoyed.   

Yeah, is used an angle grinder with a Piranha Sanding Head which does wonders but hope it'll be ok.

Good work

Nice book on restoration may help you see

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jetta-Restoration-Manual-Haynes-Manuals/dp/185960448X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/202-5750005-4919068?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188287706&sr=8-1

Keep up the good work.  Dont stop now. I use clean and strip discs on the drill for removing paint and unwanted rust there the dogs nuts.
 :wink:

Cheers, been waiting for a cheap one Haynes Resot manual to come on Ebay for ages.  Might have to do some investing i think.

The sandings going great but might need to use the drill to get to the smaller bits. :cry:

Nice work - that'll look great when it's done 8)

Rich

l18ydl said

Cheers, been waiting for a cheap one Haynes Resot manual to come on Ebay for ages.  Might have to do some investing i think.

I've got one going for a few quid if you're interested.

 Wish you would have tole me a few days ago.  Bought one the other day!!  Haha, never mind.

Nice work - that'll look great when it's done  

Rich

Cheers Rich, same on yours.  Still debating about wheels.  Want some split BBS's but dont think i can afford them.

Went to see my good friend Chris and San last night to drop off some alloys for San's Lupo, and to kindly ask Chris's dad if i could borrow his welding equipment. :?

He did kindly but did not know how much effort there was to welding!!  Thanks to Pete (Chris's dad) he did more than enough to get me started, even gave me a video on the basic mig welding.

So today after collecting my panels from Montmoss parts in Bolton and some bargain hunting on Ebay for some rear arches, i had a play about with the welder.

After 3 hours of practising and watching the video, i finaaly cracked it and i feel now is the time to get cracking.  Wont start until tomorrow afternoon but looking forward to it.

Not too sure how to take the rear valance off but will be fun finding out.







last pic is of my practise work, doesnt look too special but sure proud of what i achieved.

looking good mate, be done in no time at this rate

If you want to see what the rear of the car looks like minus the whole rear panel then check out my thread.
The best way to do just the bottom part would be to cut your old panel where it sits behind the rear bumper, so that the weld and filler etc will be behind the bumper.
When cutting out the rear panel cut out the majority of the panel away from the rear chassis legs and where it joins the rear lower quarter panels. Then gring the metal back and remove it from the other panels and chassis legs.  Hope that makes sense.
Also just tack a small weld then move to the other side and do the same, leave it to cool then do another small weld.

If you try to weld the lot in a oner you will warp the panels with the heat.

Clear as mud :roll:

Didnt get nothing done today   Why wont Manchester by clear fr one day…..please.

Managed to cut some panels out today, but thinking is the angle grinder the best thing to use?

Dont know but it blew on me, need to find the receipt to get an exhange.

your getting thair mate and i would say the angle grinder is the best tool for this kind of job

where did ya getthe back panel from?