I have finally been earning enough money to start spending a little on the Jag. I bought some great flux core wire, it puts the CIG junk to shame. Beautiful spatter free welds and easy slag removal.
Anyway, I strapped the body down to the frame and lifted it with my engine hoist a couple of weeks ago, it's made working on the underbody so easy!
I've been tidying up the weld areas around the edges of the new floors and patches to be welded from underneath. This gives me double welded floor panel seams all round, overkill maybe, but allows for any less than perfect welds and looks much neater.
The floors are finished with now, have applied my favourite primer and then seam sealer once that is well dried.
The next step from here is to remove any flaking and poorly attached body deadener, rake out all body seams and prime/seam seal the seams. As I've mentioned before, Jaguar didn't use seam sealer on these cars, which is why so many rust badly.
Once that is done, I need to repair some rust in the lower quarter panels and look at repairing/ modifying the beaver panel for sedan chrome bumpers (series 1 or 2 bumpers, I am going for a factory prototype look and hate the 5 mph bumpers). I also have to do a final tidy up of the boot floor and get that all straight, much easier as it is at the moment and I can have someone hold a dolly whilst I hammer on the other side.
I also have to run new fluid lines and will grab them from a series 3 sedan donor car when I find one. It'll be a lot easier to run the lines now whilst the car is on it's side. I'd even like to run new exhaust pipes when it's still easy to work on, I'm not sure if I'll go stock XJS dual exhaust or work out another way to get past the rear suspension cage. At the very least, the mid pipes and front mufflers can go in now.
Anyway, I strapped the body down to the frame and lifted it with my engine hoist a couple of weeks ago, it's made working on the underbody so easy!
The floors are finished with now, have applied my favourite primer and then seam sealer once that is well dried.
Once that is done, I need to repair some rust in the lower quarter panels and look at repairing/ modifying the beaver panel for sedan chrome bumpers (series 1 or 2 bumpers, I am going for a factory prototype look and hate the 5 mph bumpers). I also have to do a final tidy up of the boot floor and get that all straight, much easier as it is at the moment and I can have someone hold a dolly whilst I hammer on the other side.
I also have to run new fluid lines and will grab them from a series 3 sedan donor car when I find one. It'll be a lot easier to run the lines now whilst the car is on it's side. I'd even like to run new exhaust pipes when it's still easy to work on, I'm not sure if I'll go stock XJS dual exhaust or work out another way to get past the rear suspension cage. At the very least, the mid pipes and front mufflers can go in now.
