You might remember the post a couple of weeks back of a rusty arch that seemed to have had some sort of repair in the past with a skim of filler covering all of the rear O/S quarter as far as I dared to removed paint. Well I set to cleaning up the sills a few days ago as JeffTT pointed out a while ago at an initial assesment the rear sills need treating before they got any worse I discovered this on the rear N/S:
Deep filler covering a severe dent in the sill next to which is a previous repair - with rust all around it as you can see and as I removed the filler enough water to make a puddle of water on the drive came out of the sill :sad:.
I was hoping to get the car back together with new tension rod bushes, single piece prop and new HICAS arm then have it resprayed over the winter anyway but looks like it'll need sill repairs as well now as after I found this i checked the others - the O/S rear is surface rust but seems to be sound; I've poked holes through the back of the sill with a screwdriver on the front O/S but on the bright side the front N/S seems OK lol. On top of this - the engine is now pouring heavy blue smoke on idle which is great - can't test it while its under load as the car is up on stands at the moment but its enough at idle for the car to almost disappear :blink:
What would you do if it was your car at this point after finding filler on the sills and rear quarter? I'm getting concerned as to where else there may be filler but I don't know how the check for it as the magnet test doesn't feel any different to me on the areas that I now know are filler? Do i need to strip paint back on every panel and the whole length of the sill? :huh:
You might remember the post a couple of weeks back of a rusty arch that seemed to have had some sort of repair in the past with a skim of filler covering all of the rear O/S quarter as far as I dared to removed paint. Well I set to cleaning up the sills a few days ago as JeffTT pointed out a while ago at an initial assesment the rear sills need treating before they got any worse I discovered this on the rear N/S:
Deep filler covering a severe dent in the sill next to which is a previous repair - with rust all around it as you can see and as I removed the filler enough water to make a puddle of water on the drive came out of the sill :sad:.
I was hoping to get the car back together with new tension rod bushes, single piece prop and new HICAS arm then have it resprayed over the winter anyway but looks like it'll need sill repairs as well now as after I found this i checked the others - the O/S rear is surface rust but seems to be sound; I've poked holes through the back of the sill with a screwdriver on the front O/S but on the bright side the front N/S seems OK lol. On top of this - the engine is now pouring heavy blue smoke on idle which is great - can't test it while its under load as the car is up on stands at the moment but its enough at idle for the car to almost disappear :blink:
What would you do if it was your car at this point after finding filler on the sills and rear quarter? I'm getting concerned as to where else there may be filler but I don't know how the check for it as the magnet test doesn't feel any different to me on the areas that I now know are filler? Do i need to strip paint back on every panel and the whole length of the sill? :huh:
Cheers,
James