I had made plans to tackle the rust on my Felicia in the summer holidays as my job as a Teaching assistant would give me 6 weeks of time to dive in head first.
But then the world suddenly stopped dead in its tracks due to COVID-19!
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| Sanding and grinding and sanding and grinding! |
So I decided to move things up a bit on my schedule and attempt something I had never done before! I was going to do my own body work! Thanks to YouTube I became an expert overnight *COUGH* and swore to do the very best job £20 could buy!
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| I had to cut out a bit of fender here. |
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| Considered replacing it with a disposable BBQ griddle, by my neighbour came to the rescue with some discarded steel plate. |
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| So I wedged the straight plate in there. |
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| Traced the drivers side arch and mirrored it. |
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| Cut it, bent a lip on the bottom and had my neighbour tag weld it on with an electrode. |
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| Fortunately I had plenty of filler. |
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| And gap filling primer. |
I couldn't get the right paint due to the lockdown, so I decided to grab the first can of something red I could find just to cover the primer.
I bought a can of Tetroseal and slapped it all over the inside arches, can't rust if you can't breathe!
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