1971 VW Type 3 Fastback

[broady_6]

More photos for you lovely people.

So with the rear corner being the mess it was.

New sill section made up





And then tacked in the outer sill panel.



And this bit of filler



And a bit for the floor to bolt on to.



And then closing the back of the chanel off



Heres the front corner of the pan, or not as the case is.



This is all thats usable of the floor so I cleaned it up with de ox gel.



And etch primerd



Heres my passenger side floor which has been to the blasters and primered.



And a piece on floor ive managed to lay my hands on.



And picked up two of my wheels from the blasters this morning.

[broady_6]

Today big steps forward.

Covered the wheels in primer ready for real paint.



Hands up who likes them.



Im a very happy chappy

Luckily shaun came round to do some real work, decided it was easier to just take the whole floor out for better access to the foot well for the new closing panel and pan edge.

So i cleaned that up, primed and stone chipped it.





While shaun got his head around where the pan, closing panel, and frame head all met.



This is the snake tin trimmed to suit the gap it was filling with the closing panel bolted too it.



Then sticking it in.



And painted up

[broady_6]

Lots to report from this weekend. After shuans work the other night, I made the door pillar bottom.



And in making this I decided this would be a good place to close the sill so the heater airflow would reach the windscreen.





Then a cheeky phone call to Shaun again Friday evening and he tig welded a few more bits for me to make the rest of my pan edge. The darker bits on the right of the photo.



Sunday morning barrie came around to help me refit the front beam (thanks again)
After a little arguing it wouldn’t go on properly as one of the original brackets was a bit rusty so we had tried to fit a replacement but it wouldn’t have it. So I’ve ended up repairing the original. I did take a photo but for some reason my photo taking device decided not to save it.
Any who I thought id have a butchers at what my new tyres would look like.
Here the difference in height old v new.



They look tiny in the arches. But they will do the job for now.





So play time over i need to make a floor pan from lots of bits that i have.



Lots of metal gluing and I’ve just about made the pan.

[Paul L]

Awesome work!

[broady_6]

Thanks very much

This evening I had two hours at it. Ive just about finished making the pan and started welding it to the pan edge chanel.

Ill post photos once ive got a couple or more some progress

[broady_6]

Due to the very fine weather we've had of late, well not this past few days, but prior to that. The silage decided it wanted cutting early this year. So last week saw 13 hour days at work which left very little time for VW fixing.

So lovely hot weather almost completely dry and not much wind. Silaging was done in record time of Less than a week, usually takes nearly two. Saturday rocks up and I get up at a reasonable time ready to set about fitting my floor.

Not long after lunch I began to feel dizzy, then i got tooth ache and head ache and so on. I gave up about 2ish, just feeling awful so i got rested up.

In the end i got my arse into gear and I've got the floor welded in and then bolted all down the new sill. Lots of lovely etch primer and seam sealent. This evening I've sorted out the pedal cluster mount, welding the base plate down and aliening the pedals.

Ive got a few other bits mocked up ready for assembly. More photos and details later.

[Clockwork]

keep up the good work

[broady_6]

i will be, ive got new sills bits for the pass side being made. Hopefully have the drivers side finished friday night. And get the pass side all chopped up on saturday.

[veedub'n '77']

top stuff dude keep up the good work

[broady_6]

Heres more of the good work, even if i do toot my own horn

As i promised (some time ago) ive got some photos for you all.

















How many patches?

[veedub'n '77']

Wicked dude. A few holes to fix there but you can do it!

[broady_6]

I bloody hope so, EBI is fast apporaching and this car needs atleast two weeks running before hand!

[broady_6]

Well the updates are few and far between but at least the work isn’t!

I didn’t want to take the rear wing off, for the fear of making more holes, but the rear corner was that bad i had to.

But luckily I took it off and no further holes appeared



The same deal with this rear corner, well not quite as major but pretty similar.





And here it is all mocked up



Welded and seamsealed



The majority of the floor is ok, just a few inch wide strip down the pan edge where some bad repairs have been done. And this one section in the rear foot well.





Ive then spent time making up a new pan edge from a pan I had and some section shaun had folded for me.



Gaps filled in.



And finaly heres the patch work quilt that is the front inner arch.

[volkswalker]

patchwork quilt !!!!!!!!!!!!
good man!

[broady_6]

yer i know it would have been better made from fewer peices, but complexity of the shapes would have taken up more time. and as I have no time at all. I just made it as fast as i could

[t2kampervan]

full marks for motivation your doing a top job .most people would have scrapped this i think.ive seen better go that way!!

was this fasty bought from a bloke called john??

dave

[broady_6]

yeah i would have scrapped it if id known what i was getting into. But ive started so ill finish. I think it was. Hes jonny5f on vzi i think. Down devon way

[t2kampervan]

yep,thats johns old fasty.never new it was that bad tho

if it means keeping more on the road,full marks.i hate seeing any vdubs being scraped.

keep it going

dave

[broady_6]

I didnt know how bad it was. When i bought it there was two or three small holes (no more than an inch square) in the front archs. And then the common type 3 fault of the spare wheel well being rotten. And to be honest i did the arch repairs and left the spare wheel well and drove it for two years and it still passed mot's. But in the end a few other holes and problems crept in so i stop using it when the mot ran out.

This work started and we came across all this lovely rot all over it. Could believe what i found, but i stuck to the mastermind phrase "Ive started so ill finish"

[Editor]

There's a few out there that are much worse than you'd think, even when outer sills are still original and good. As I say, a big hole is no more difficult to mend than a lot of small ones, but I don't want to have to do either if I can help it!

[broady_6]

Unless the mot man finds anymore holes then I’ve finished welding today.







Got the wing bottom on



And the passenger floor repair.



And finally the door pillar presented me this.







I’ve started bolting buts on and adjusting this up hopefully it will be drivable tomorrow. Mot able mid week

[volkswalker]

awesome broady!

[veedub'n '77']

awesome, does this mean you are seeing the finishing line soon. top stuff

[broady_6]

hopefully the photos i post later will show you the answer!

[broady_6]

It looks like a car again.