Green Ale

Show us the work you're doing on your Triumph 2000/2500/2.5.
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Tinsmith_Skippy
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Green Ale

#1 Post by Tinsmith_Skippy » Sun Jul 20, 2014 8:32 am

Welcome to Project Green Ale

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This is my hospital job and on the road to recovery is the driver side floorpan outrigger.

The floorpan previous repairs showing signs of rust and is holed. Also, the ourigger has corroded.

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The inner sill is in need of repair. The flange required for attaching the splash panel is lost to rust.

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I'm on a very limited budget so I've decided to hammer form the repair panels. Here is the roughed out panel.

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After a bit of trimming and cleanning the panel is ready for welding.

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The panel is now tacked into position.

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A cardboard pattern taken from my other PI. Again a bit more trimming to fit and cleaning for tacking.

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The outrigger was corroded so I've folded this replacement.

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The flange on the outrigger I have welded seperate.

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The outrigger welded into place after trimming to final size.

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Replacing the footwell section.

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I've put in a joggled seam on the floorpan to take the footwell section.

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Welded the side section of the footwell which joins to the inner sill and eventually the splash panel will be welded to this.

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Here is the welded panel from the inside.

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That's it for now! I've painted red oxide, so on the next session I'm fettling the welds and replacing the splash panel.
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#2 Post by Charles H » Sun Jul 20, 2014 9:07 am

Always liked the look of that car!!! Great job you are doing, wish the patches one my fleet were as neat as that! Keep up the good work.
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#3 Post by Dread Pirate Roberts » Sun Jul 20, 2014 11:48 am

That's some great repair work! Some inspiration for what I've got to do to mine. :D
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#4 Post by Andy Thompson » Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:38 pm

Your panel fabrication is second to none!! Excellent stuff
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#5 Post by TedTaylor » Sun Jul 20, 2014 4:20 pm

Andy Thompson wrote:Your panel fabrication is second to none!! Excellent stuff
Precisely what I was going to say - cracking good panel forming and general work especially of the ribs in the floor. From your username I presume this is your trade.

Wish you were in my neck of the woods ( :roll: ) to give you some work because I need to get some tricky bits of panel forming like this done for my restoration of NAM, my London-Sydney/Monte/World Cup Land Crab which I must get on with next year ....... It needs a lot of these sorts of repair panel! I am always looking out for NOS ones (no one bothers with repro stuff for Landcrabs :( ) so I am going to have to see if I can get my skill level up to yours which I doubt!

Anyway look forward to following your progress.

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#6 Post by busterdog » Sun Jul 20, 2014 5:32 pm

great work looks like its going to be corker is this the car from a lock up in grays Essex

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#7 Post by Mike Stevens » Mon Jul 21, 2014 11:51 am

Andy Thompson wrote:Your panel fabrication is second to none!! Excellent stuff
Couldn't agree more. I've done loads of welding on various cars (Triumphs, LandRover, Jaguar, etc), also making panels, but nothing to your standard.

Brilliant stuff!

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Re: Green Ale

#8 Post by oggy » Tue Jul 29, 2014 9:00 pm

Brilliant work skippy , looking very good :D

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