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Dirtbags dream car rebuild! HK monaro!

Started by _dirtbag_ , Dec 24 2010 04:04 AM

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#226 _dirtbag_

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Posted 19 May 2011 - 06:06 PM

Thanks guys.

The bead roller I have is a Woodward Fab unit from Summit.

The pins I use are called cleco pins. They are like a reusable mechanical rivet. Very handy for things like this.

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Posted 21 May 2011 - 09:37 PM

thats cool. problem is after seeing this is im now looking at one of the doors to my torry thinking i should really strip that bog off and find out what wrong with it. thanks dirtbag.

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Posted 21 May 2011 - 11:33 PM

You should start making two of every repair, soon you will have your own HK :D.

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Posted 22 May 2011 - 07:34 PM

Seeing guys take a flat bit of steel and turn it into something that is the correct shape and fit sure impresses me, I wish i had even half your talent Tim

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Posted 23 May 2011 - 10:56 PM

Thats AWESOME as always Tim, thanks for showing more step by step detail :D very very interesting

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Posted 24 May 2011 - 09:27 PM

Itching for an update!

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Posted 24 May 2011 - 09:55 PM

Yeah me too! Flat out at the moment packing and cleaning and getting the new house ready to move into. Wont be back into work for a week at least : (

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Posted 25 May 2011 - 06:05 PM

Tim that's why the forum has died a little bit lately haha.

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Posted 25 May 2011 - 07:14 PM

Yep, my evening gmh-t browsing is cut very short without a dirtbag update.

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Posted 30 May 2011 - 02:21 AM

Bah im in hospital atm, you should update the thread (right now ;), wake up you big bag of dirt), I need my fix. I cant sleep coz the nurses are checking on me every hour sooo... Updates!!! Stop moving house ;). They do dish out good drugs tho :P.

<edit> fine, ill find the big yank tank you built up recently and read that again :P.

Edited by jabba, 30 May 2011 - 02:23 AM.

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Posted 02 June 2011 - 08:36 PM

Bah im in hospital atm, you should update the thread (right now ;), wake up you big bag of dirt), I need my fix. I cant sleep coz the nurses are checking on me every hour sooo... Updates!!! Stop moving house ;). They do dish out good drugs tho :P.

<edit> fine, ill find the big yank tank you built up recently and read that again :P.

LOL I hope you're ok mate.

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Posted 03 June 2011 - 04:17 PM

Took them 4 days to work out i had pneumonia :dontknow:. I got so sick for a while there i couldnt even read dirtbag threads :cry: :cry:

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Posted 03 June 2011 - 05:11 PM

That's what you get for fanging around in the Celica with the windows down!

Hope you're ok Jabba.

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Posted 03 June 2011 - 07:45 PM

Took them 4 days to work out i had pneumonia :dontknow:. I got so sick for a while there i couldnt even read dirtbag threads :cry: :cry:

pneumonias serious shit mate, get well soon

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Posted 03 June 2011 - 07:56 PM

Thanks mate, yeah never been in so much pain in my life. Out of prison on Monday, all i want to do is work some metal :surrenderwave:


O Dirtbagio, Dirtbagio, wherefore art thou Dirtbagio?
Deny thy updates and refuse thy pleeds;


'Tis but thy name rust that is my enemy:
Thou art thyself, though not a Monaro.
What's Monaro? It is nor hand nor foot,
Nor arm nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O be some other name!
What's in a name? That which we call dirt
By any other word would smell as sweet;
So Dirtbagio would, were he not Dirtbagio call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Dirtbagio, doff thy name,
and for thy name, which is no part of thee,
Take all myrust.


Err, yeah after that it just got weird. Sooooo bored. UPDATES

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Posted 03 June 2011 - 08:00 PM

Thanks mate, yeah never been in so much pain in my life. Out of prison on Monday, all i want to do is work some metal :surrenderwave:


O Dirtbagio, Dirtbagio, wherefore art thou Dirtbagio?
Deny thy updates and refuse thy pleeds;


'Tis but thy name rust that is my enemy:
Thou art thyself, though not a Monaro.
What's Monaro? It is nor hand nor foot,
Nor arm nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O be some other name!
What's in a name? That which we call dirt
By any other word would smell as sweet;
So Dirtbagio would, were he not Dirtbagio call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Dirtbagio, doff thy name,
and for thy name, which is no part of thee,
Take all myrust.


Err, yeah after that it just got weird. Sooooo bored. UPDATES


I think you better take the chapstick when you drop in on him,Jab.:DOH:

#242 _jabba_

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Posted 03 June 2011 - 08:03 PM

I hope he likes beard rash :gfight: hahahaha.

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Posted 04 June 2011 - 07:58 AM

tim just moved jabba he had no phone or net in his new house as off last week so the updates may be a little while

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Posted 04 June 2011 - 09:49 PM

Ahh no problems, figured something like that. He's usually fairly prompt with the updates :).

I never leave home without my internet! Telstra finally dont suck (so much) and i can just turn my phone into a wireless access point and data doesnt cost my mortgage. :P.

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Posted 04 June 2011 - 11:20 PM

I found a mod for your woodward bead roller

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Edited by jabba, 04 June 2011 - 11:23 PM.

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Posted 07 June 2011 - 07:18 PM

Nice mod! That would be very handy.

Well I spent today on the old Monaro.

I thought I'd have a look at the lower part of the inner rear guard.


The lower corner was made totally with fibreglass bog. I dug the wire wheel into it and bottomed it out before I struck metal. It's a 5 inch grinder too!!


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After a bit of digging I found a little bit of metal, but not much.


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Then I thought I'd have a look at the base of the spare wheel well.

This top on shot shows where I'd started wire wheeling. The whole thing is covered in fibreglass.


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After a lot of prying and swearing I managed to get the fibreglass to come away from the metal. Nice,


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This is the awesome repair work that was underneath.


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I was able to snap the lower corner of the guard off with my bare hand. Good repair boys : )


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Here's most of the spare wheel well removed.


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Here's the two pieces of spare wheel well. The bodgy metal bit and the fibreglass bit. This amuses me greatly : )


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I then made a new lower corner. I had to start somewhere, so here seemed a good place.


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Then I started making the new spare wheel well. Here's the first bits fitted.


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The main part of the wheel well started out as a flat sheet with a fold down each side.


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I then used the shrinker to pull the sides in. Here's one side started.


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And here's the other side after one pass through the shrinker. It needs to get more of a curve in it than this.


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Here it is tacked in.


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It certainly doesn't look much but that's all I got done today.

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Posted 07 June 2011 - 07:39 PM

Stunner repair that!

Nice fab of the replacement, was more work on the strinker all that was required to get the desired shape?

Cheers

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Posted 07 June 2011 - 07:41 PM

Hiya. Yeah I just ran it through the shrinker a bit more to get the curve I needed.

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Posted 08 June 2011 - 02:12 PM

Hiya. Yeah I just ran it through the shrinker a bit more to get the curve I needed.

Hey Dirtbag, did you use a shrinker for the quarter panel or just english wheel or both??I would have to do the same with our Pontiac.

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Posted 08 June 2011 - 04:19 PM

Haha, some of the old repair jobs you see on this forum are classic!! The effort some people go to when making these dodgy repair almost seems like the same amount to do it properly. Great work Dirtbag! Loving this thread.
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