Bongo Fury

kloonsy wrote:

Velocette wrote:I have just been looking at the body panel drawing and the crack is just where the edge of the roof panel ends. this is good in a way because I think the front A post panel goes up inside the roof so fingers crossed the spot welds have not failed, just the filler. The strength is mostly in the inner section of the post I would guess. Half tempted to dig it out but too scared of what I might find.

Not sure what you mean by filler, but polyester body filler as not used in the manufacture of vehicles. Most likely a run of braze weld between pillar and roof, lead at a push dependant on age of vehicle.

mikeonb4c wrote:

missfixit70 wrote:Don't be such a chicken may be best to wait til after the hols though, just in case

Yup. I decided not to chicken out over grinding off the paint and rust on wheel arches to see what was underneath. Best in the long run. One benefit of a rust-through hole (says he putting a +ve spin on it) is that you can use it to squirt anti-rust into the interior.

I have a few isolated spots on the metal below the AFT and above the windscreen. V. slow developing (may be stone chip results) So far I''ve just scratched off surface rust, Kurusted, zinc primer (can sprayed into lid then applied with touch up brush), metallic, then single part lacquer (can lid/brush again).

I can't get out of my head the feeling (right or wrong) that the ageing lacquer is getting more brittle and porous to moisture, and that the car would benefit from a complete recoating with lacquer.

Doone wrote:Kloonsy, this is your speciality area... we had ours repaired and 'leaded' locally 3 years ago, and its just beginning to bubble again. It will need to be repaired again, is there anything else you can suggest that would help?

gill+berniebann wrote:hi i had chips on my pillars mine was stone chips
only pic i got its around middle and top