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Re: HB estate tailgate

Postby Johnboy HB » Mon May 30, 2016 6:05 pm

moving on to the front, the offside wing was removed which wasn't hard as it was totally rotten, I was left with this
its had repair panels fitted in the past quite poorly so these were removed
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Re: HB estate tailgate

Postby Johnboy HB » Mon May 30, 2016 6:18 pm

& I was left with this
this is where I am at the moment, i'll either replace the complete inner wing, or weld in new repair panels, not decided yet :?
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Re: HB estate

Postby Johnboy HB » Thu Jun 16, 2016 1:07 pm

decided to weld in repair panels rather than change the whole inner wing, going for as low a budget as possible, butt welded these in from underneath so that cleaning up the welds in the engine bay would be easier
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Re: HB estate tailgate

Postby chrismc » Thu Jun 16, 2016 1:23 pm

Good neat work 8)
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Re: HB estate tailgate

Postby Kraken » Sat Jun 18, 2016 9:03 pm

Inner wings looking better! Are you doing any work to the front panel (light surrounds)?
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Re: HB estate tailgate

Postby rizzo » Sat Jun 18, 2016 9:23 pm

Oh this is looking awfully familiar, :D
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Re: HB estate tailgate

Postby Johnboy HB » Sun Jun 19, 2016 10:13 am

The front panel really is past it, so i will be replacing it with a second hand one that iv'e got along with second hand wings, so that overcomes that hurdle, Rizzo, I was thinking the same only I'm not brave enough to strip the whole front down to the chassis rails
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Re: HB estate tailgate

Postby yoeddynz » Sat Jun 25, 2016 10:37 am

Good effort! Wow- those wings are rooted.
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Re: HB estate

Postby Johnboy HB » Sat Oct 08, 2016 3:06 pm

Not a lot done on this lately, been doing work on the house, finished the welding on the front offside, even with repair panels there was still some fabricating to do on the wing rail & headlight mounting. Will put up some pics later
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Re: HB estate

Postby Johnboy HB » Sun Oct 09, 2016 5:20 pm

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