Ford Cortina Mk3 2000E ‘76 Restoration Project. Ep.20
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Update for Dec ‘23 - March ‘24. Final floor pan repairs, media blast, anti-rust treatment & paint.
Near side top-rail, filler bracket and upper scuttle removal followed by lower scuttle panel fabrication with heat and a hammer!
Finally the N/S inner sill gets removed ready for the new replacement.
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new to the channel, been a panel beater and painter since '87, what you got planned when it comes to under coating when you get to it?
something i've used a few times on big projects is the 3m sprayable 2k sealer, it comes in mix bags which is fine for small stuff but i did the entire underside of a '76 Mercedes 240 with 22 of them, expensive but gave the whole bottom side a tough rubber coating, it was then overcoated with black 2k as that was a customers car, my own ones i do same but with final colour body colour gloss, nothing sticks to it, if it does its an easy rinse off.
The 3m spray sealer i now mixup several bags and use a big bore gravity gun,
if you have any areas where you are worried about replicating any critical shapes like the windscreen flanges, make a template from wood, steel or aluminium to mate up past where you will be cutting so during and after you have a guide to where the edges are ment to be, really useful for curved surfaces where you can't measure every mm of it
Hi Laura. I was planning on using Gravitex but I have no experience with underseal yet or how to apply it. Do you use a spray gun/compressor ?
I hear that you can get Gravitex in any colour to match your car.
Thanks for the tips on the fabrication. I’ll update on progress soon.
Blimey Shelly that cars in really good shape actually I was suspecting it wouldn’t be as good as that underneath it’s impressive. And so the work you’ve done looks amazing brilliant job mate. Just a suggestion and probably a stupid one but have you though of using rust converter on those places that aren’t really rusty as such just a bit of surface but you can’t get a tool to to clean it up ? Might prolong its life maybe . Super metalwork to well done shes certainly taking shape 👍
Hiya. Good point. Yes, brushed fertan on many exposed panels back when the shell was outside. I should have been more thorough, and also when the shell was inside as it can still corrode, thanks in part to the wettest winter on record!
I’ve tested various rust converters and anti-rust paints on the front valence replacement (did a video on that) and from memory, it was comparing what effect they had on mild corrosion, left overnight. Hammerite converter and fertan did best.
I think nothing beats media blasting back to bare metal, then using a zinc phosphate solution like POR metal prep, or a zinc primer. Dave from Dave’s Garage (good channel) did a test on various primers and rust protection paints over a long period of time. The clear winner was Halfords Zinc Weld-thru primer which I think I will also use on the shell now.
As for hard to reach areas like inside the sills, I think Dinotrol or Fertan, sprayed in using a special long reach tube is the best bet.
Please stop the horible music PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stop the horrible music.
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@@ShelleysCortina I like your videos but the music is horrible and very loud. Please consider changing it or just dont put it on.
Hi Shelley, Thank you so much for your kind comments on my Cortina Mk3 shells restoration work, and the mention on your end credits too, very much appreciated, I think you have done very well with the inner scuttle repair, given most of it had rusted away, you did a nice job of making up the repair, and as always I loved watching the work on your beautiful 2000E, as each episode she improves so much from what you started with, the underneath looks lovely now she has been sandblasted, hand finished and painted, great work, and well worth the time and effort, and mess, and clean up after, I did a lot of sand blasting on parts for my car, and another classic I worked on at the restoration Company, and really enjoy the process,
Your doing great, and I very much look forward to seeing your next video as always, all the best from Keith.
Thanks Keith, yes it is a labour of love! Hard to see the light at the end yet, but at least the mucky underside is now sorted and I'm onto the upper shell. Your man in Ireland came up trumps with the engine bay panel i needed :-)
Excellent work. Will be interesting to see on how you get on with then inner sills I’m currently doing the same job I wasn’t to sure if them ones go in from the inside but by the looks of it they do. Keep up the good work
Thanks! I still havent welded it on lol, as i need to make a small repair to the floorpan edge first, and since then, I decided to attack the rear valence and inner valence, which in turn showed some bad rot on the lip of the floorpan... So I've moved onto the rear of the car and pretty much cut it all out including the lower quarters! More footage to follow soon.
Excellent work Shelley, really enjoyed your work in this film. The fabrication is always interesting to me to see how people aproach a certain job. Pete helped me too no small surprise and I hopefully will be back at it myself to get more work done.
The idea with the blow torch is so handy I need to reshape my spare wheel well. If I had more time when I was welding my sils I wish I had treated inside and painted but I just didn't have enought time.
Hi Simone! How is TeeCee? I've seen recently that Expressed now do a spare wheeltube floor section if that is of use to you? Otherwise its amazing how much hot metal can be coerced into shaped witha few taps of the hammer!
@@ShelleysCortina I need to get the carb rebuilt. The car would not start and the float bowl had rust in the bottom. I have a nearside rear wheelarch repair.