Hello Mike
Thanks for the advice. Your's is the most interesting and extensive
so far.
> sounds like you don't have a welder, I would recommend either a body
> shop or better yet a welding shop, if you can find one that has a
> MIG welder. The thing to do is strip out the seat and carpets and
A friend has offered me the use of his friends MIG welder. Since I've
never done this before, how hard is it to learn.
> scrape off the undercoating, if you do this you can prevent extra
> labor charges. The shop will weld in new sheet metal into the
The underside is covered in this rough and chunky black paint. The top
has this acrylic/vinyl stuff on it. Both could be real interest in
find clean metal. The underside paint especially, makes it hard to find
the rust. The source hole which could be see as a 2 inch square rust patch
(no hole until I put my finger through it) was just a sliver from underneath.
> The good news is that you have a specific cause of the rust
> holes. It is much better to have an isolated rust spot caused by a
> leak than to have a rust bucket where all the floors and quarter
> panels are in the process of falling off.
True most of it is isolated. However the back part of the wheel arches
where they join the fire wall look suspect and there's some surface rust
under the nose where the the paint has flaked off. May I say typical leyland
rustproofing? Fortunately I think most of this happenned when it lived
on the coast. For the past 3 years it has been living in Canberra. In this
place we get a morning of snow every couple of years. The climate is
cold and dry in winter and hot an dry in summer. It's wet in autumn.
A testimony to Canberra weather is the patches of bare metal on my corolla.
An accident flaked the paint of the fender. After 6 months I can still see
bare metal with faint rust streaks.
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