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Repaint Fuel Tank

January already!!!

The car is still not back in one piece.The fuel tank, I have found, has had a habit of water condensing underneath it. This has caused some rusting but not enough to cause a leak.

I am currently sanding back the fuel tank to bare metal. I use "clean & strip" disks because that way I do not need to deal with paint stripper. The problem I find with paint stripper is that it can get into crevices and if not neutralised, then may react with any paint applied. It does mean that small dents and crevices need to be stripped by something else. I just use a piece of sand paper. I will repaint it with POR15. For those of you who know of Hammerite, POR15 is the U.S. equivalent and is easier to obtain here in New Zealand.

Repaint Front Shocks

Still going on this one

Panelbeating

Well  the car is almost ready for painting. The front guards are on and the doors have been fitted. The outer seat mounts have been re-fitted. The inner ones are pressed out of the floor pan and were used to mount the front half on the rotisserie.

The doors, front guards and bonnet have been fettled up so that the door gaps are more like the build quality of a german car than a british one. We have used lead on the front edge on one door to get the door gap right. this should be better than bog as it should be more resistant to cracking over time

Strip Tonneau Cover and Boot

I used a clean and strip disc on the boot and tonneau cover around all the holes they have. I have masked up the holes and sent them to the media blaster. Hopefully in covering the holes with masking tape not media will get in the gaps. I seem to have been lucky with both the bootlib and the tonneau cover, as neither of them have any obvious rust. Blasting will tell, but I don't expect to see any rust. Most Triumph bootlids rust on the leading edge where the chrome strip is. the bootlid aslo looks well rust proofed, so it's good state is probably due to that.

Strip Tonneau Cover and Boot

20/10/98
I used a clean and strip disc on the boot and tonneau cover around all the holes they have. I have masked up the holes and sent them to the media blaster. Hopefully in covering the holes with masking tape not media will get in the gaps. I seem to have been lucky with both the bootlib and the tonneau cover, as neither of them have any obvious rust. Blasting will tell, but I don't expect to see any rust. Most Triumph bootlids rust on the leading edge where the chrome strip is. the bootlid aslo looks well rust proofed, so it's good state is probably due to that.

23/10/98
Got the panels back and have found both of them to be in excellent condition, no rust. Passed them on to the panel beater for touching upand fitting up.