Hold the line bro, I am with you in spirit.
My rockers are completely rusted, I don't have much to weld onto due to the rust. I will be going your route sometimes this year with finding parts and welding and welding.

 

Today's words of encouragement...... If you stare at the top of the mountain, you'll never summit the foothills.

also, if you paint some black spots on it, you could call it 'Ladybug'. haha

Judging by the outer part of the door sills, looks like it didnt see salt - so hopefully this footwell/floorboard rust is the worst of it.

'Stay strong brother!'

 

welding....

 

Hey Walt,
Thanks for sharing the video link. This was the best 1.5hrs of relaxation and education combined. Without doubt a true thing of BEAUTY.

 

😭 starting to feel like the hours and hours of prep are leading nowhere but 1 panel each time, and those panels are a real pain because the metal is a pain to weld in. Especially to the old stuff.

 

yeah welding is mostly prep work - kind of like painting.
You should be grinding down to bare shinny silver metal when welding to existing material. You want at least 1/4" to 1/2" along the weld edge free of contaminants to weld too. Double check/adjust your wire speed and voltage too - make sure ground clamp has good contact too. If any of these are not right = PIA and bird turds welds.

 

Thanks for the info.

Even with proper prep work, the metal in the old rover is so thin it’s almost impossible to not blow it out. Even on my lowest voltage.

but I can get it structural and then fill and clean it later. Bondo and paint 😉

 

I am edging closer and closer to getting this done. The wierd box was my solution to avoiding whatever that circular sensor / plug was going into the side of the transmission. The box is out of the way of everything and the seats fit fine in there and it’ll be hidden so I’m not too worried with it. But it’s cold here, so progress is moving slow! Haha

 

So oddly enough, the woman I bought the Rover from said it had a “massive brake failure” and that’s why she parked it.

I’ve read on here the ABS pumps mess up, so I’m assuming it was maybe that? Because I had absolutely no pedal at all, and I got underneath it, and bled my brakes, and this is some of the nicest brake modulation of ever seen on a car. It’s like they are perfect. If there was a massive brake failure they wouldn’t have bled this well there is just no way. I did however pull the ABS fuse before I bled.

 

yes the ABS gets funky - most just pull the fuse and leave it out. - Im one of them.
the hardlines do have a tendency to rust (depending on where it lives obv.) Mine rusted out at the base of the firewall. Def worth looking them over front to back.
I ended up bending my own hardlines for the entire vehicle - was nearly 70ft of line haha