Summer tires on. My wife's is on the left, mine is on the right:
And so we can tell them apart:
So cute, you have matching cars.
I will be takling the rust on Mrs.Skinny's Accent next week:
Cutting into the rusty driver's quarter panel.
Trying something new for me: 3M Panel Bond instead of welding it all in. What could go wrong?
Fabricated inner fender edge. Fabricated outer fender edge.
Fabricated a "cab corner" bottom of rocker, but will be fitting it tomorrow.
Fender edges are secured temporarily and expect to glue in tomorrow.
Film at 11:00.
Looks like the left rear corner was stoved in at one time. Healthy dose of "cave and pave" in there, with a Rutland/Surrey size can of bondo.
Patches fab'd from Toyota Corolla roof.
More to come.
In reply to SkinnyG :
Any time I've been to BC to visit family I see all these rust free cars.....what have you done wrong?
I believe that the previous collision repair was done poorly (LOTS of things on this car were done poorly), and I bet they didn't properly re-seal the inner fender, allowing water to get in.
That wheel arch took me HOURS to make. I used a tipping die on the bead roller to get the crease, and the shrinker/stretcher to get the curves, but it was a slow process for me. Fits nice now, though.
Glued and clamped. I need more clamps:
What is up with you and tiny red hatchbacks?
Also, this is super cool!
I like tiny hatchbacks.
Over the years now:
Red: 3
Gray: 3
Blue: 1
Yellow: 1
(And I SO want to put a V8 in my own Accent...)
Kitty Hair:
Epoxy Primer:
In reply to SkinnyG :
I'm with you...small cars are fun. I've had a Mazda GLC, 4 A2 VW GTIs, 3 R53 MINIs, and even an Austin Mini 1275 back in the day. Your threads make me want to buy an Accent/Rio/Yaris and make a rally replica to go back road cruising. Keep it up!
"Slicksand," my favourite skimcoat. I forsee sanding in my immediate future:
Blocked and re-sprayed Epoxy. Hopefully Base/Clear tomorrow.
In reply to SkinnyG :
How do you like the 3M panel bond?
I don't have anything to say about it at this point.
The application of it is as you would expect.
What I want to see is the longevity of it; how well it holds it all together. Also I want to see how long the repair stays hidden - no shadows or cracks.
Good lord I hate bodywork.
Things were going sort of well. There was the usual or hoses catching on berkeleying everything. And initially mixing the paint wrong. And tools sprouting legs and walking away. And the gun spraying different every time I squeezed the trigger. And... and... and...
I successfully berkeleyed up the third coat of colour such that I've called it quits for today. I need to sand quite a bit of it off to fix it now. Yay.
Not yay.
In reply to SkinnyG :
Turbo LS accent? I'd subscribe
On one hand, a twin turbo'd V6 Hyundai powerplant in the back would be a cool OEM-themed goodness.
But I truly prefer the jaw-dropping horror and uselessness of a front-mounted/rear-drive V8.
Base sprayed. Took three tries today.
Clear sprayed.
Reassembly tomorrow. Sanding out ALL my defects to follow. And there ARE defects. I berkeleying hate bodywork.
Good enough for the girl I go out with!
When we got this car a year ago, the suspension made some nasty clunking.
Right off the hop I installed lowering springs, replaced all the junk shocks and struts with new KYB's, and replaced both junk sway bar end links. Everything looked good otherwise, and the chassis had a reasonably low 150,000km's on it.
And yet....
I'm still been chasing that nasty clunk in the suspension, I even took the whole front apart again trying to find something, anything.
Today I got medieval on the "new" (last fall) sway bar end links and thought I felt something there. Yup. Teensiest bit of play.
Luckily, I had bought two sets of end links last year, so I had one ready to go. Which, clearly, will only last a year.
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Also, the passenger door window wasn't responding to the driver's control, and then the driver's side window would go down, but not always go up. So.....
I pulled the door panel, removed the switch ($200CDN and out-of-stock at Rock Auto ?!), disassembled it and hosed the snot out of both switches with a can of electrical contact cleaner.
Now they work (big grin).
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