Tag Archives: boot floor

28/6/2020

The last few days have been spent filling, preparing and painting the inner lining walls of the boot.  The outer surfaces have been painted red-brown to match the colour of the original (mostly rotted or split) wall panels.   I applied two coats of the brown to seal the plywood properly.  The inside faces are in white undercoat, awaiting the correct ochre brown final colour.   Next I turned my attention to the left-hand (nearside) boot door and found that it was just as poor a fit as the right hand door.  This necessitated removal of material from the bottom of the door frame, the boot floor sill and the top left-hand (curved) corner  of the door aperture.  It is impossible to see how the door can ever have fitted properly with the body frame the dimensions it has now.

9/4/2020

Today I was able to install the pillar repair section I made yesterday.    Screwed and glued to both the existing remnant of upright and to the boot floor cross bearer and given a coat of primer.

Whilst that was drying I installed the two new gusset plates for the previous pillar repair and bolted them up to the cross bearer and upright.

Finally I made a couple of brackets to reinforce the joint between today’s new section of pillar and the existing part.  These will also connect to the horizontal that joins the vertical at this point.

I now need to make up the gussets for this new piece before I can fix the new perimeter rail section at the bottom of the pillars.