Ford Escort MK1, Crash repairs. Car Restoration.
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2022
- Ford Escort MK1 Restoration Project, serious door repair
Throughout the project we will build tools to help us along the way, the custom tools we build, we will upload our how-to videos
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Fantastic job again Dave. Lick of filler isn’t a bad thing mate. Well done sir
Excellent workmanship and fabrication Dave 😃😃😃😃
Morning Dave. Just caught up with this one 👍🏻 Lot of work on the door but it’s has come out really nicely 😀
your right there mate,my motto is save all tin,and for the younguns its all valuable practice making templates,shaping and butt welding,the door will look like new at the end pal,it wont take a lot of shallow filler to make it good,again dave a valuable hour of experience from you for the newbies.
Thanks pal
great work dave.a few quid saved there
I'm lking the repairs Dave, well done. 👍
You have gained a new subscriber today! Just going back and forth and watching all your Escort Videos :)
Hi Mark, welcome to the channel, I hope you enjoy the content 😊
A little ‘English wheel’ would be useful in that fabulous work shop of yours!!!❤
On my tools to build list
@@DavesGarageuk have you seen Dominic Chinea’s (The Repair Shop) Ranalah reboot. He has a very good UA-cam Channel
Another challenge executed, nice one Dave 👍
Thank you 😊😊
Brilliant.Thumbs up.
Thanks mate.
Hi dave just a tip for all your external body panels that need filler firs skim them with fiber fill as filler is not waterproof love the work keep it up
Yes, thanks for that tip, I saw that on another channel recently, I think it was Karl from Japhands customs.
Dave,just got to the end of your vid;i only watch about six different channels on you tube & your,s is one of them.(because it,s good).
Cheers mate.
Thanks 😊
I liked the way you built the replacement subframe on the manta, 👍
Thank you Richard 😊
Looks really good 👌
Good work dave put some chopped fibre glass filler on before any filler as its not porous like filler you may already know but just thought I would mention keep up the good work british fitz
Thank you Geoffrey, a few have mentioned this. Ta.
Just subscribed to the channel, and I have been catching up on your content. Good save on the door. I like to see cars being repaired rather than having full on concours restorations, using 1000's of pounds of new panels to do so. The reason the wing has a less defined swage line than the doors and rear 1/4s is that it is a circa 1980s pattern panel. they were renowned for it.
Thanks for the sub Clive 👍makes sense, I guess the machines stamping out the panels were getting worn out.
nice job dave great work as always (bob)
Thank you Bob
Great work dave 👍
Thanks 😊
great job done
Well done again Dave, (quite a tedious repair working to recreate the swage line and beautifully done sir!) in addition, being able to avoid spending an additional £250 on a replacement skin is a great result. (I always think that just fitting new heritage panels to any old classic is an obvious time - saving option but also a big cop-out if the old car just ends up as mainly brand new ha ha!) Big respect and thanks. 👍
Thanks, yep, it'll still be mostly original Escort 😊
Top job 👏
Love watching your series on the Mk1 Escort. My first car was a 1972 1.1L which I bought for £100 when I was 17. Still dream of owning a mk1 RS2000 but not many of those around in Australia now :) Keep up the great work. I’m learning lots from following your videos. The way you tackle each problem is interesting and inspiring.
Thank you Jason, it's amazing how cheap MK1's used to be!
I've been wrenching on cars since 1983, and I learn from every one of your videos. I've only ever begrudgingly done body work, but I'm about to straighten out and paint my 1998 GMC Safari so I'm trying to get as much knowledge as possible. Your stitch welding skills are about the best I've seen, I'll be re watching those segments over and over.
Ah thanks, very kind of you 😊
@@DavesGarageuk I just came from a car show in the Villages, which is a huge retirement subdivision near me here in Florida. A guy had a really nice rat rod T-Bucket, and you could see any patch panel added thru the primer, if it was primer. It made instantly think wow Daves welds are pretty, hard to hide anything under the mid-day Florida sun though lol.
@@DavesGarageuk And we have no vehicle inspections or horsepower limits, so you see some wild stuff. :)
New subscriber ✌️🏴 keep it up
Welcome 😊
Great work as always Dave, nice presentation too. Thanks for the effort videoing it.
Thank you 😊
Great job again Dave. Just reading some of the other comments, This is my (not necessarily correct!) take on fibre loaded filler. There is a common technique that I see used by the crash repairers where the welded joint is left deliberately low, then skimmed with fibre glass filler before finishing with ordinary filler. The only reason I can see that this is a better job is that it takes care of any pin-holes in the welds, which are the only things susceptible to moisture problems. Your welds are perfect as far as I can see and will not have any pin holes. Fibre glass filler will give you a worse end result because it does not feather out and always leaves the repair high. When it comes time for paint, just strip off all the weld through back to clean bare steel, sand it to at least an 80 grit scratch, apply the skim of filler, work it to shape and epoxy prime any bare metal left. Job's a good 'un.
Brilliant thank you, I did wonder how well it would feather out.
Good effort :)
When skinning a door (or making a skin repair) always bed the skin onto the frame with a bit of body sealer (sikaflex / tiger seal etc) this helps keep water from getting between the various layers and rotting from the inside out. You were also right about the weld through primer, but it was still a decent repair 👍🏻
Thank you 😊
great well done AAA+++
Lovely dovely
Dave, congratulations on reaching 2000 subscribers, though given the quality of your work and your videos I can't understand why it's not 200K! Another brilliant video, as you say when you have nothing to loose and no fear of failure, it's amazing what you can achieve with fairly simple tools. Have you seen that bending device that Fitzee uses, comprising 3 different sized tubes welded together with a small sheet sized gap between them for putting a curve in a repair panel. You could do with a scaled down version about a foot long with a tab welded on the bottom to fit into your vice. Though you made a pretty good impression bedding over your knee. Really excellent work....... I bet you were pretty impressed too!
Hope the 100E auction makes really strong money to help finance further projects, whoever wins that one will have one superb car that will give another 50 years of fun and the knowledge that it was expertly built. I really could have watched those door repairs in real time and was disappointed when the video was sped up and bits were skipped....but understand not all of your viewers are as sad as I am.
Thanks Neil, yes I've seen his tube bender tool, on my to do list to make one.
Well done dave on. Subscription numbers great video again
Well done Dave brilliant results just shows what you can do when you try love the contents of your videos and MK1 escorts 👍👍👍👍👍👍♥️
Thank you Dean 😊
Lovely job dave 👍
Thank you Jim 😊
Top job Dave 👍
Thank you Sid 😊
Just subbed to your channel
Thank you for joining just starting out hope you enjoy 🙂
Been binge watching your repairs, your mig welding results are excellent. Yourchannel is sure to bring more subscribers Dave. Thanks for sharing your skills!
Wow, thanks!
He is still learning but wasting his Time. Fancy not cleaning the rust out.
Hi Dave,
Delighted to hear you have hit 2k subscribers and are making and few quid for your effort. I have been following your channel for a good while now. Your videos are great and I always learn something. Thanks for taking the time to make such brilliant content. Top man!
Thank you Kevin 😊
Nice job I have a question did the welding mask come with the torch/light or is it one you have attached.
That's my addition, got fed up of not being able to see the weld properly.
Great job Dave another step closer 👍👍 my mk2 in the pic bare shell at the moment 👍
Hi Neal, thanks, just getting started on yours then? Are you filming it?
Well I bought it last November it’s bare shell at the moment waiting to get it sprayed st 170 going in should be fun
I’m not filming it Dave but taking loads of pick they’ll probably come in handy for when I’m putting it back together lol
The best thing about giving it a go with the old door is that had you spent the 250 quid on the skin, theres no guarantee the fitment would be perfect anyway. I think you acted wisely👍
Thanks Jeff 😊😊
That's a steep driveway bet it's a nightmare in winter
Ha ha, well spotted, yes it is
Did you not consider lead loading instead
I didn't, but I'm not a fan of working with lead, it's pretty toxic. But I have respect for those that do, the results are usually amazing
£250 to spend elsewhere Dave ,👍
Indeed 😊 no doubt I'll need it 😂
YOU MAKE IT LOOK SO HARD, WHY NOT JUST USE ON PEICE. YOU CAN BEND STEEL YOU KNOW.
Why are you shouting
@@DavesGarageuk I just remembered all English are pathetic. If you can do things right get offline.
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