Aram's 3SGE Beams Levin Coupe

[Aram]

Right, there's been work done on the car again.

Last Sunday me and Lennert removed some parts from the car.
The tank, exhaust, towhooks and a big part of the tar on the floor of the car were done by Len, I managed to get the heaterbox and loom out with one hand.

The tank wasn't easy to remove:




But Lennert did it and felt vitorious after:



Interoir is cleaned up, and a begin was made removing the tar plates:






There was a good oppertunity while the roof was off.
The car is going to be seam welded in places for extra strength and why not start here:








After that Bert was ready to put the roof back on, YAY!! :















Also this rotten part was dealt with, before:





And after:





Aram happy, hope to keep the pace up now!

[danielvanderwoude]

Looks like Bert knows what he is doing!

Keep up the good work!

[robokill]

bert is truly showing off some skills here.

Great work looks really good

[Aram]

The roof was not fully welded yesterday, and it's not even done today.
But progress was made nontheless.

I removed more parts, the inside of the firewall is clear, and thankfully not much rust is present.



I also removed some engineparts but not anything interesting enough to put on pictures.

Bert was welding all day, mostly with on part that was rusted, it took a bit of work to fix this part.


These were the smooth parts, all protected with zincspray now:













This was the part that needed replacing, first cut the rot out:



Then using a part of the old roof and trying it on for size:






Spraying weldable antirust primer on the back:





Than Bert put a gelly substance on the roof that soaks up the heat from welding, keeping it out of the roof itself, preventing tension in the metal.
Ingenious realy.





And viola, new piece of roof:




Here is a picture from the underside, the red beam was used from the cut off roof section, the one on the car was to far gone to use:



Monday we continue.

[robokill]

very nice work

[Gtsi-R]

verry nice!!

real specialist!!

[cannabolic]

nice work.

Did you use any glue on the roof skin? If yes what make?

Keep it up

[Aram]

Thanks guys!

Phillip,

We used no glue, when it's done i'll use some kit to stop vibrations, that's all.

[Aram]

Alright, Bert is on a roll.

He's working on the back end now.

Here's pics of the progress:

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After:




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And, I don't have before pic's of these, but trust me, there used to be rust there. :







Pic's are not the best quality, sorry.

[Eric]

Amazing! You must really love this Bert person