All done
I have to admit to being a bit worried once I got Sylvia jacked so I could have a good look at what was ahead.
I ended up turning her up the other way as it was a bit worse than I thought.
The trailing arm mount had almost detached itself from the body of the car.
This one doesn't look to bad from the angle it was taken. That was before the grinder got at it.
Then I discovered the inner arch was starting to go.
However once I got into it and bent a few bits of metal, it all came together ok.
You'd never know there had been a big rusty hole once.
While I had Sylvia on her side so to speak, I thought it would be a good oportunity to do her whole underside with stone chip. 4 tins of the stuff just to be sure I don't have to do anymore welding on her for a while.
And the worst part of the day was hoovering Sylvia out as she was rather dirty inside. There was all sorts of horrible little things from her and Jims antics across the USA.
So she's now been washed, polished, bumpers rejuevinated and hoovered and has Just 2 tyres to get fitted, then she'll be ready for whatever jim throws at her in 2007.
