I have been merely welding now for a while.  I am a little worried about the clean up operation so started to clean up after myself when I got to the front but I have a lot of grinding to do for sure.  I was coming to end of the welding on the top of the car and had started to wonder how I could get to the underside when a friend popped round for a coffee.  JP and I managed to get the car off the trolley and onto its side with a few straps hanging off the roof beams to keep it there; a complete result.

I was rather impressed with how clean it looked underneath and have started welding that now.  Ideally I'd like to turn it the other way up for the welding that is need on the side nearest the ground but think I'll just have to lie down and scrabble about on the floor.

I fitted the windscreen pillar and suspect that it is at a different angle to the first side that I fitted a few weeks back and realise that this would be a horrific thing to try and sort once the body is painted so I need to get the screen out of storage and trial fit it.   I can't remember what it is that I have exactly but I know the glass is smashed but think, from memory, that the frame is ok which is all I need at this time.

I have also been thinking about painting the inner body and hope to get it done during the next school holiday which is 4 weeks away.  Before I can do that I need to sort the screen out and clean off all the paint as I am going to use epoxy primer which is best applied to bare metal.  Surely I should be able to do that in addition to finishing the welding in that time frame?  It feels good to have a deadline to work to.  I also need to buy the paint which means settling on a paint code.  Much research needed.

Hello,

I have been lucky enough to be in Boston to watch my wife do the marathon, top lady, and still get a few days in the garage on the Healey this Easter holiday.  I have been working my round the body welding everything that I see needs welding and it has been lovely fun.  Because I have been only welding I haven't updated the blog that much but have no fears, I've been hard at it lately.

One of the tings I did was to weld the wiper motor tray back in place.

Whilst I was in Boston I walked past this lovely car, no idea what it is but I'd love one.

 One of the tings that sat uncomfortably with me is the number of holes in the the panel that sit behind the engine.

The return edge on the bottom of the bulkhead has long stressed me out too.

A few days of welding make light work of it!

Some more time in the garage today and whilst I did  fair bit of welding I did allow myself to get side tracked.  I started to clean up the windscreen supports and decided that I should try to remove the rusted braces, a job I wasn't looking forward to because the bolt that held them together is somewhat counter sunk and I had visions of it all being stuck firmly in place.  However, they both came out so easily I was shocked.  The chrome is starting to come off the supports to reveal brass underneath it which might explain why they released so easily.

I realise that these need re-chroming, not sure where I could get that done but there must be somewhere reasonably locally that does chroming.

When I fitted the bracket it did pull the side together nicely but it was off line so I drilled and mounted a piece of angle iron to allow me to modify it with success.