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installed the anti roll bar today, with all new genuine clamps. Also sorted the fan clearance on the fanhousing, and set up the thermostat.

Just the front shocks to fit, and one bit of tinware and its ready for the final welding to the framehead and jacking points

Looking Good Rob , Some Great Work !

thanks Wayne :)

more work by Gav last week, he uncovered another bad previous repair, so straightened it nicely.





hes also finished off inside too 😎





onto the drivers side hopefully this week 😎

bit of etch on the front inner wing, rust? what rust ;)



rear bumper mount still to be fitted, but new hookys inner wing panel installed

Robb, does Steve do these type of mounts? I've always thought these to be '66 and '67 model only?



The type he seems to sell are the '60 up until '66 year model era?

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good spot ;)

no Hooky doesnt make the correct mounts for my 67, which are actually 65-67 pressings. It was important to me to have the correct style mounts on this car.

I had Hooky especially make me some of just the inner wing panels (without the the mount) and then Martin (also off this forum) has provided me with some og metal mounts which Gav will drill off a rear clip which he has in stock ready for his ragtop project 😎

Nice. 😎 So, they are '65 model too?

Doing a sterling job.

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yer i did a bit of research on em, as i thought they were 67 only mounts. and after seeing 65-67 cars all with the same mounts, im glad i did look into it further, rather then just have the incorrect mounts fitted. 😎

Learn something new everyday. 😎

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I always thought those rear mounts were '66/'67 only and not '65.

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mine has em and it oe.

Starting to come along now Rob. Looks really good.

This is a pic of your car (1965). They appear to be the early ones.

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yer they are prob 66-67 only mounts, but some late 65's prob got them too. I did put a thread up on this issue somewhere, but cant find it now.

more pics very soon.8)

right heres the pics!

with all the fibreglass removed from the drivers inner wing, it revealed mostly rot free og metal



The shell was then dropped onto a pan to check alignment, before chopping out the rotten channel and fitting the new one



the lower hinge pin was replaced, to correct the wear and movement, and all fits much better now.

heres the channel welded in. the crap heater vent will be cut out and replaced with a section from an og channel and also the 68-heater hump cut and plated flat, to all look og factory.



Gavs still gotta finish off the metal around the channel, but its getting there. Im extremely happy.

looking good, looking forward to seeing around the roads in warks

I know it is extra work but the channel that you have replaced is the same as the one I fitted to both sides. I took the bottom off the channels and found hardly any paint and already rusty new channel.



To rectify I took the bottom plate off, then on seeing how the OEM New VW Heater channels are inside I welded a 3mm x height of the channel to the inside of the outer running board side of the channel the full length of the channel (where running board attaches) in doing this I took off the running board captive nuts and drilled and tapped the 3mm strip in situe.

Then thoroughly coated the inside with por15 although now I would use Epoxy mastic 121




Hookeys Channel closing panel



If I were you I would get the bottom closing panel taken off, the thouroughly paint the inside with epoxy mastic 121 then complete the panel with a hookeys bottom closing plate.

I made my own panels for the inner rear suspension out of 16 gauge as well as the closing panel and the door pillar I went for thickness over originality oh and a custom 16 Gauge floorpans as the thicker quality ones were not available then















Epoxy Mastic all under, will never rust





what I started with......

thanks for the advice, but im sure Gav has it all covered 🙂 hes done a few of these now ;)

if your unaware of his work, check out his blog 😎

https://trailer-queen-restos.skynetblogs.be/ 

Epoxy mastic rules :beer:

Is Gavin going to give the insides of the channels a good squirt of Waxoyl?