Wheel Arch PART FOUR
Grinding, filling sanding and
painting.
It’s been a while since
I posted anything about the Right Hand (Driver’s side in
This is where we left
it last time:
(Above) The inner
wheel arch repairs have been painted with two coats of grey primer. All the welds on the
outside have been ground flat and a skim of filler has been added to hide the
joins.
(Above) Some of the inner seams were protected
with filler and a coat of yellow high-build primer was sprayed on the outside.
(Above) With the inner
arch painted with black Hammerite, the new rubber bump-stop and the
spring-damper unit were re-fitted. After a few more coats of primer and plenty
of rubbing down the outer arch starts to look not too bad. – If this was
destined to be a ‘concourse’ car I’d have spent more time getting the shape
exactly correct but, as this is a working vehicle, it only needs to be properly
repaired and presentable.
(Above) Once the
colour goes on, you can see the mistakes! But at least it’s all now solid as a
rock structurally.
(Above) But after a
few more coats of red and some more rubbing down with increasingly finer ‘wet
and dry’ paper, it starts to look not at all bad. With the plastic trim
reattached it looks as if it has never really been worked on; that’s the odd
thing about repair work and restoration, the end result is always unremarkable.
Coming Soon:
Now the engine is all finished it’s time to turn the car around and do the LEFT
HAND REAR WHEEL ARCH which, being the ‘gutter’ side of the road in the UK, will
most likely be in even worse shape…