Fitting rear seat belt

[Dean]

Nice car. I wish I had a garage like yours, I have a Mini I wish to begin to tidy up and could do with the room you have .

[iandromiskin]

LOL. Its actually a large shed I rent from a friend which is very very handy. What you don't see is my other black 62 two door behind, a 69 traveller waiting its turn someday at restoration and a red four door thats fit for nothing but scrap, but I plan (someday) to make it into a trailer or something. I'd be lost without it.

[iandromiskin]

More work conducted on KAS today when I attacked the nearside kickplates to try and open up the sill area for fitting of the front seatbelts and waxoiling the inside. What a job it was !!! Had to use the angle grinder just to get the bolts off but considering they hadn't been removed for over 50years I was not surprised.

Given that this car spent its 50year plus life in Africa (Yes - Africa !!!) its not surprising to find some hidden wildlife deep in the bowels of the car. This is what I fould today -



Apologies for the fuzzy nature of the images (iphone) but they show a hive of some sort. I saved most of the bits and some of the cocoon things inside as I might contact Dublin Zoo or the Natural History museum to see what it was.

On the negative front there was also a bit of flakey rust inside the box section, as well as Africian dirt. For the most part the sill and floor is very good but there are some small holes in three places in the inner sill and some where the inner sill meets the floor pan, though I suspect this is just poor welding.


Image from below looking up at the inner floor section on the near side showing two of the small rust penetrations.


Seen through the box plate with a light shining up from below. It looks worse than it is, but is is holey.


Same as above but better image.

Solutions please ? ?? At the very least I assume I have to cut out the small rotton portion and weld in new metal ? I don't think it needs a whole new half sill as the holes appear to be isolated (not that I'm capable of major surgery such as that) and the remainder of the sill/section appears to be sound. However I am open to correction.