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Project reHATCHed

Started by _Rana Girl_ , Apr 10 2010 09:49 PM

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#1 _Rana Girl_

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Posted 10 April 2010 - 09:49 PM

Well she's been riding around in my sig pic for ages and finally enough has been achieved to warrant starting a project thread...

We brought her as a roller a bit over two years ago

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but she got halted before she really got started when I decided to up and sell our house and buy one without a suitable shed so she had to get put back together again and stored until a new shed was built. About 8 months ago we got her set back up again to make another start

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Plenty of rust to be dealt with so started with the smaller jobs and working the way around her...

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#2 _Rana Girl_

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Posted 10 April 2010 - 09:57 PM

This didn't help the state she was in along that sill

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at some stage in her life someone had stuck a repair straight over some damage and/or rust and over the drain holes :fool:

Edited by Rana Girl, 10 April 2010 - 10:07 PM.

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#3 76lxhatch

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Posted 10 April 2010 - 09:58 PM

Nice, I see lots of potential

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#4 _Rana Girl_

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Posted 10 April 2010 - 10:11 PM

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#5 _Rana Girl_

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Posted 10 April 2010 - 10:17 PM

little less work had to be done on passenger side rear quarter

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left bumper mount ^ was completely rusted off requiring a home fabricated one to solve the problem

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#6 TerrA LX

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Posted 10 April 2010 - 10:32 PM

Love the work going into it.

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#7 Heath

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Posted 10 April 2010 - 10:52 PM

I didn't realise you'd been working on this one. Didn't realise it was quite so rusty either! Repairs look top notch - musta been busy!

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#8 _Rana Girl_

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Posted 11 April 2010 - 12:16 PM

Cheers TerrA LX and 76lxhatch

Been just plodding along on her for a while Heath photos have been getting stuck up on my facebook as anything has happened just didn't bother starting a thread for her until now being as it was slow progress and happening in dribs and drabs with big breaks in progress. The pic in my sig is probably deceiving makes her look quite good but yeah she had plenty of rusty areas we knew about right from the get go and as they do there was plenty more hiding under the panels

almost like she was frowning at us when we got her up on the rotisserie the first time and got a good look under her....

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doors were pretty average one had corner rusted clean off

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and the other one wasn't great either so being as some good ones came up we grabbed them saved us having to muck around fixing the ones off her...

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yet radiator support was fine and we expected the floor pans would have been shot but they were actually fairly good only needed one small patch on drivers side one...

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Other than that there's some of the normal spots - hatch channel is pretty stuffed, bit of work to be done to tail light surround and hatch hinges are knackered too. C pillars don't appear to have much rust but have a had a dodgey looking repair done at some stage so they will still need looking at.

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#9 mr5000

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Posted 11 April 2010 - 02:24 PM

lookin good hows under the dash any rust?

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#10 _Rana Girl_

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Posted 12 April 2010 - 09:23 PM

lol that was a good question we hadn't worked our way around that far yet so had to go and have a look... looking like there is a rust hole there but nothing too horrid...

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#11 _hatch76_

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Posted 12 April 2010 - 09:41 PM

Comming along very nicely. Any idea's on motor, colour, flairs or not?

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#12 _doogs_

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Posted 12 April 2010 - 09:51 PM

Bit of work there ! Good on you for "rehatching"

and giving it a new lease of life.
Nice progress.

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#13 lxsstorana

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Posted 13 April 2010 - 06:56 AM

Great project and some very nice metal work. :spoton:

Good to see another hatch being saved. :clap:

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#14 _Rana Girl_

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Posted 13 April 2010 - 08:50 PM

Comming along very nicely. Any idea's on motor, colour, flairs or not?

Keep up the good work.

Nothing is set in stone but... she was a 253 but will be a 308 (if we can find a decent one that isn't going to break the bank) nothing overly worked as I plan on driving her most

but am craving a step up in power from the LH, other half wants to go something fuel injected but I'm standing firm on not going that way

thinking of going with a green (she's not getting crazy paint like the LH :lol:

)I have always been partial to hatches in white but there's already at last three white ones in the club so I think white's about covered for quota already....

no flairs that one is set in stone, possibly just a front spoiler maybe dunno not sure yet....

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Posted 16 April 2010 - 05:41 PM

Nice work Kel, about time you started a thread. Brads got it ticking over pretty well now, it's looking good, them rear quarter aren't a nice job to do. Do you think the shed is big enough, Not sure you have enough room to spin it around on the rotissery.

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#16 _Rana Girl_

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Posted 20 June 2010 - 10:39 PM

Sorry Les bit slow replying hadn't checked in for a bit... lol don't start on the shed he wasn't real impressed about the replacement shed here not being as big as the one at the old house... not sure there will be room to spin anything any more once this one's done apparently a parts storage floor is about to start appearing over that bay... The rear quarters I think have just been superseded in fun level by the current task at hand wait till you see the pics of that I'll try and get them chucked up on my facebook soon

Got a 308 tucked away for her now and need to get in and do a decent update fair bit more rust repair been done since last lot of photos I put up...

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#17 _Rana Girl_

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Posted 23 June 2010 - 10:18 PM

OK so I think updates must continue on from...

under rear beaver all finished being cleaned up

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and replacement rear beaver on...

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drivers tail light before...

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so this poor thing as you can see made a donation...

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#18 _TJ308_

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Posted 24 June 2010 - 12:06 AM

Love ure work keep it up

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#19 _Kush_

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Posted 24 June 2010 - 09:27 AM

Hey I don't suppose you need the other tail light recess from the donor? Can I have it? I will pay you for it.

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#20 _dirtbag_

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Posted 24 June 2010 - 10:17 AM

Kush, you wouldn't be un-UCing you hatch now would you? : )

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#21 _Kush_

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Posted 24 June 2010 - 10:35 AM

Kush, you wouldn't be un-UCing you hatch now would you? : )

hahaha! I don't know what your talking about, dirtbag. I just like collecting tail light stuff

yeah you got me...... I figured if I can get one, I can make a copy for the other side too.

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#22 _Barman_

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Posted 24 June 2010 - 06:23 PM

nice work

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Posted 25 June 2010 - 06:35 PM

Great progress shots and quality work. Good job!

Question..... My recent SL/R project purchase has had the above mod. How come you did this one? I don't understand why people do this. Just for looks / clean lines?

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#24 _dirtbag_

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Posted 25 June 2010 - 07:45 PM

Great progress shots and quality work. Good job!

Question..... My recent SL/R project purchase has had the above mod. How come you did this one? I don't understand why people do this. Just for looks / clean lines?

It helps aesthetically to clean the rails up a bit, but also provides and extra inch or so of width to the engine bay, which is nice for spark plug changes and exhaust gasket issues, especially with small blocks and GenIII's.

If the whole bay gets smoothed as well as the rails trimmed it looks really good in my opinion.

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You're doing a great job on this hatch. I really enjoy seeing the updates. Keep them coming!!!!!

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#25 _Rana Girl_

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Posted 25 June 2010 - 10:55 PM

bloody hell dirt bag that coming from you having seen your work I'll be telling him is a huge compliment... there's more updates sitting in the computer but I've kinda been waiting for each step to be finished so I can add them as before and after comparison shots but things seem to have slowed a bit at the mo :dontknow:

so my after shots aren't rolling in :angry:

notna the reasons are exactly as per what dirtbag said were the main ones for us = looks neater and the one he really wanted to do it for was more room when changing spark plugs

TJ308 and Barman cheers

Kush origionally the other one was needed but I think he's ended up just repairing that side but was keeping it at least for as a spare but if minds change again I'll be sure to let you know he's keen to cut the rest of that shell up soon so will check again when that's going on... what about the one that came out I know it's got rust holes in it but if you can make them up would it be any good still as a template? I can have a dig through the scraps and see if it's still there if you think it would be