AndyW
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| posted on 28/8/11 at 07:27 AM |
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Rear panel fitted at last!!
One of the jobs I'd been putting off was the making and fitting of the rear panel. The panel it self was supplied flat so I set about fitting.
I spoke to the factory in the week and they said it takes them about 3 hours with two people. "Thats not too bad" I thought! So started of
de-buring the panel from where it had been laser cut.......
This took about an hour as I wanted to make sure all the tabs would fold correctly to create a clean bend. The I slowly bent each tab into the correct
angle (I hope!)
I then spent the best part of the next 6 hours carefully folding, measuring, folding, measuring. At this point I was very happy with progress and
forgot to take any pics of the panel prior to fitting.
So lined it up and jiggled it around a little, but I have to say, it went on very well. With a bit of fettling here and there and another what seemed
like a thousand rivets, it fitted.
I'm well pleased with the finished job, it did take me all day to do, but Im well chuffed with the result. Starting to look more and more like a
car!!! Just have to do the arches next
Any way, off out to the garage again, although I dont think I have the energy to do any more rivets, my hands kill me!!
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CRAIGR
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| posted on 28/8/11 at 07:32 AM |
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Looking pretty good that well done 
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AndyW
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| posted on 28/8/11 at 07:37 AM |
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Ta craig,
Considering how big the rear panel is, I was a bit nervous. I already ruined my dash board and that was half the size, could not bent it right for the
life of me, ended up jumping up and down on it. Going for a fibre glass dash this time!!!
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CRAIGR
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| posted on 28/8/11 at 07:44 AM |
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Lol. Been known to throw bits down the garden myself a few times.
Very satisfying when it goes right though.
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gottabedone
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| posted on 28/8/11 at 10:48 AM |
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Suppose it might be a bit wrong to say that's the nicest backend we've seen in a while 
well done!
Steve
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spiderman01980
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| posted on 28/8/11 at 10:56 AM |
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BRILLIANT job, what did you use to cut it? i tryed cuting the side panels with a nibbler that goes on the end of drill(f***ing pants)then was lucky,
someone gave me a compressor and i bought a shear cutter and it was great but only in straight lines!
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 28/8/11 at 01:03 PM |
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I did that job twice... 
The first attempt just looked wrong and tatty, so I ripped it off and started again - sounds easy, but I'd used PU sealant when I put the first
one on - took ages to strip it all off...
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AndyW
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| posted on 28/8/11 at 02:19 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by spiderman01980
BRILLIANT job, what did you use to cut it? i tryed cuting the side panels with a nibbler that goes on the end of drill(f***ing pants)then was lucky,
someone gave me a compressor and i bought a shear cutter and it was great but only in straight lines!
Came ready cut but flat packed. I think most the time it took was bending the sides to form a nice curve, total job took near on 8 hours!!!
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RK
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| posted on 28/8/11 at 02:56 PM |
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It's a brutal job, but you've done some really good work, and given me some ideas to smarten up mine. Good post; thanks!
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