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[burty]

A shame we hadn't made contact earlier in my build. Check out photos 6,7 & 8 on page one of my build. I disposed of the tail light sections I cut out of my UC, not a mark on them.
Keep plugging away but by bit you doing good work,

[UCgazman]

Rusty bit removed, donor patch ready to weld in (my phone's camera sucks, always blurry) -

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[UCgazman]

Patched the holey area at the bottom left corner, its hidden by the beaver so it doesnt need to be pretty - just strong!

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Tacked the new(ish) tail light section in. Ran out of daylight but if I have time I'll finish it tomorrow

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[burty]

Getting there, good work. Do you have much more rust to cut out after the rear end is done? Looking back through your thread the front looks pretty much done.

[UCgazman]

The front is pretty good, there's a bit on the rh rear wheelarch (should be able to cut most of it off when fitting the flares) and a couple of small bubbles on the sills. The back was so bad because it was hit and just bogged up, the bootlid seal was no longer sealing properly and just let heaps of water in. Luckily the bung in the spare wheel well was removed at some point or I'm sure that would have been rotten too!

[UCgazman]

Cleaned it all up, took off the old paint and gave it a coat of etch primer. Ended up digging out a fair bit of filler from the centre around the fuel cap, thats gonna be fun to straighten..

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Tried it with some tail lights, just for fun

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Little bit of rust to fix on the bottom lip, and some tapping with the hammers and dollys to get it straightish (will probably still need a skim of bog). Then its beaver time!

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[burty]

Can you get a rare spares replacement beaver panel? Is it the same as LX/LH? Tail light area looks like it's almost ready to go.

[UCgazman]

I have a new beaver panel ready to go, I forget where I bought it? Suits LH LX - slight difference in the UC sedan boot floor shape but close enough to make it work.

[UCgazman]

Patched the last bit of rust on this lip -

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Test fitting the beaver, went on and off quite a few times for trimming and tweaking -

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Once I was happy with the fit I tacked it on and started welding -

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I'll finish welding & grinding and get some primer on it next weekend.

[UCgazman]

Well that was a long weld -

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Looks good with a bit of epoxy primer on it. Next I've got to fix this gap -

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[UCgazman]

Had to remove this little bootlid latch panel so I could get behind it and straighten the top lip area

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Managed to get it looking pretty straight, a bit more tweaking and I can weld the latch panel back on.

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I also put my good bootlid on and managed to get it lined up pretty evenly, decent gaps etc.

[hawk]

Looks like this has been coming along nicely. Any updates of recent? I enjoyed following this before I had a break from the forums.

How was the fitments of the front spoiler you bought?

[UCgazman]

Very slowly - its hotter than hell here at the moment so probably no more updates until it cools down a bit.

That front spoiler came off Burty's car, I'm not sure where it was made but it fits great - probably the best UC spoiler I've seen!

[hawk]

Good to hear its still progressing, looking forward to seeing the updates.