The theme of todays post is going to be rust! Now i was as surprised as you guys are going to be when i say, Fiats rust. Being a sister company of Lancia you would have thought they would of Learned from the Pro's how not to do it, but no, they thought they would follow suit.
For the past week and a half i have had the horrible job of scraping as much underseal off of the floor as i can so i could asses what actually should stay and what should go, sadly there is a lot of the later!
I have discovered that the main points that the rust has taken hold is at the sills and the floor and the inner front arches.
Front of the sill, or where it should be, and the chassis leg that just sort of peeled away!
Looking up from the last photo to the inner arch, luckily the structural mounts for the damper and wish bone have been preserved
The following pictures showing the condition of some rather ropey floor repairs
So i have taken the plunge and bought some things:
2 new floor pans, and the complete inner and outer sill assembly for both sides.
In preparation for the new bits i've braced the shell as if i was just to cut out the sill and floor there would be some serious re-alignment issues, thanks to Tommy to the obligatory welding shot, also my friend kyle has lucked in with a well placed Chizfab sticker. ( Google it it's good stuff)
So thats how the car stands so far, braced and ready for the new floors and sill which will be arriving at the end of this week.
I'm quite nervous and excited as this will be the start of actually putting it back together, but i've never done anything like this before. Just have to wait and see the results!
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