Braved the snow this morning to head over to Glossop to get the panels from Schofields
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, |Snake pass was closed so had to make a detour over the Strines and up to the woodhead pass
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. was well worth it, there was a good 3" of snow down but the road was open. Anyhow got home and set to work takling the front panel
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After a bit of poking around.
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Yikes thigs were looking worse than i first imagined, so time for the BIG grinder.
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After cutting a bit out i found that the rot had spread into the main Beam itself and had eaten through. That crappy cardboard air deflector looks like it had been causing the water to pool between it and the steel and as a result had rusted through in a few places. So instead of just letting in the repair panel i had to start cutting and welding the inner bumper bit.Luckily i had some much thicker steel, courtesy of a company i used to work for
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Had to cut a fair old section out but would make welding the new bit in a bit easier.
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Made the inner patch out of 2 pieces . thought it would make it a bit easier as theres a funny little indentation in the centre for the spare wheel retaining bolt thingymajig.
Not the best weld in the worl but better than rust.
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So tomoro ill be finishing off the front end and hopefully start tackling the O/S outer silll