*****ing, moaning, griping about a fail won’t fix it.
So today I took a day off work, I did need to burn off leave or lose it.
Slow start, and certainly some thinking to be done.
I had not actually seen the reason the car had failed before today.
So I lifted it up and crawled under it to see if I could find why it had failed.
And suddenly realised I owed the grumpy tester an apology
At this point I was chatting with mate @glenanderson who responded thus.
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Decision time then.
1) Patch it up quick and dirty to get another year’s ticket and spend the last couple of months of next summer looking for a replacement.
2) Do a proper job now, to keep it going indefinitely.
3) Walk away now before you put anything more into it.
I’d be doing 1) or 3).
So after the chat, I decided on a combination of primarily no 2.) and some of no 1.)
I never cease to be amazed at people who take all the time to bodge a job, when it takes just as long to do it right.
And started to clean up........
Loads of mastic welding under the skin.
Yellow chalk of doom evident.
Then cutting disc.
And fetched out my die grinder and it’s quick release discs.
Cleaned up.
Then used my CAD design and cut some plate, folded, prepped and fitted it.
Fine tuned.
Welded in
Other side
Looking at the amount of crud this side produced, I am amazed.
At this point I then added a bit of seam sealer, went to the house for a coffee and to check work emails, because I cannot step away.
Helped a colleague and waited the 20 minutes for he seam sealer to go off.
More in a bit.