Ford Escort MK1 Restoration LHD to RHD - Scuttle Grill Panel
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- Cutting up the grill and reversing the handing
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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Evening the gas man working in his cave 👍🏻 That was a great bit of ingenuity Dave 🤩
Thanks 👍
Fantastic work Dave you saved a original panel which most people would have scrapped 👏👏👌👍
Thanks Sid mate
Great work Dave. Hope you enjoyed a few beers at Diddly Squat!👍😎
We enjoyed a beer, as we was driving, had a great time.
Turned out great Dave .
Evening Dave, another great video,and a great saving,that money can be spent elsewhere now, looking forward to seeing the dash video.
Hi Alan, Thank you pal, yep I can buy more beer boxes now 🤣
I really love the way you reuse as many of the original parts as possible, and your attention to detail is ‘second to none’ I’ve also just ordered some of those paint striping pads (I didn’t even know they existed, so thank you)😊
You're welcome 😊
Another great job there Dave, lovely little extra at the end too.
Thank you 😊
Spot on..even the original rhd scuttles arnt perfect, yet yours looks better than original, keep her going....
Ha again it looks mighty fine, good work. Coming along nicely. And just going to share the build.
Please do! 😊
@@DavesGarageuk also cheers for showing off the country side, when I'm going on a pilgrimage to the UK from New Zealand my wife and I will have to check out Wales in its entirety, cheers for sharing that to.
@NosFedZ32 yes do, Wales is stunning.
Top job Dave, and great to see diddly squat farm is busy, loved that show.
Another great vid Dave 👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it
As tight as me Dave , where ever you can save a buck you will lol good job mate. It’s amazing how much money doing this sort of thing can save you instead of buying everything new 👍
Indeed
First class as always
Brilliant bit of fabrication there and saved another £150+ for a new one. You wouldnt be able to tell thats been cut and welded at all and theres no final coat of paint on either yet.
Thanks David
Great work as usual, thought you might have bitten off more than you can chew on this one but it all came good.
Great job on car going to start my project next year saved all your videos for future reference nice one
Glad to help 😊
Another perfect job
Good job keep them coming 👍
Brilliant Dave, hardly needs any filler. Just read all the comments, my experience only: genuine Dremels fail at an alarming rate when used for cutting steel, usually the speed control. I have been using the Silverline version, which do start to vibrate after a while, but you can get a 2 year warranty by registering them on line and you can get them exchanged. Saw a thread a while ago, someone had contacted Upol technical dept. about using their weld-through primer as a metal primer, and they said that they would not recommend it because it has poor adhesion versus a proper primer. Maybe time for one of your scientific experiments?! All the best mate.
Thanks for the info 👍
Thanks Dave diolch 👍
Almost missed to bonus footage at Diddly square farm!
😊😊 well spotted
Top job Dave
Todays "Schitt I Lurnt" is 2007 Fords are borderline un-weldable. I'd a 2007 Camper in for work today - my previous "Can't help you Pal" cut-off was 2012 - 2012 Fords onwards are un-weldable - it's not me, it's them. I can weld a gnat to a cats behind - I can't weld 2012 onwards Fords - the metal used is garbage & just burns.
I get endless 2001 - 2004 Transits in to work on - they're grand, I can work with them, they are repairable - my "Nope!" was always set at 2012. Today I revised my "Nope!/Pay me silly money because it will be a ball-ache" back to 2007. We live, we learn.
Be very glad this yoke ^ is an older Ford Dave - these new ones are an absolute ballache to work on. I will never complain about working on an '80's Ford again. They are a total doddle compared to the stuff they spat out more recently. I'd rather face into 20 Sprinters & 10 Ivecos than one newer Ford - welding them is insanely difficult - off the scale. I have burns on my arms A&E would freak about from the metal just exploding on the 2007 pos today. Bearing in mind I have asbestos skin at this stage, that's kinda a "Red Flag"..
That's interesting. It must be a funny alloy steel so it can be thinner, I guess? I have a Transit Custom for work. What a pile of poo!! It's only just gone over 40k and it's like a bag of nails.
absolute class job 👍
i started what you have just done last year dave,its half done and kicking about the garage,good neat work mate, it might make me restart it while its fresh in the old grey matter,i had visions of clerkson banging on the councils front doors being the pest he can be at the end mate.
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tidy job dave
Great job again Dave, with the slot under the new dash top from the old instrument cluster hole could you not create a "slide out" table or tray for putting maps/laptop/tablet etc (if you want to be clever make it so the table/tray can be flat or turned to an angle) or even for putting your drinks & food on when you stop for a break, just an idea.
Great idea
Looks great that 👌🏻
Great job Dave you wouldn’t know it’s been converted from L to R the lines and gaps are spot on
Thanks 👍
Top job 👏
Thanks ✌
Nice work Dave. Always look forward to your videos 👍🏻
Glad you like them!
Brilliant.
I’m a perfectionist and, unless you pointed that out to me, I might never notice it wasn’t original. I’m in awe of how tidy you can get your flux core welds. I’ve tried, but for anything that’s going to be visible, I have to use gas shielded welding. I do a little stainless tig fabrication, on the side, so I have pure argon and I’ve discovered, through necessity, I can get much nicer welds in mild steel, using that rather than the proper Argo/CO2 mix. It’s much more expensive, so I only use it for highly visible stuff like that grill, but it seems to give better protection, so there are absolutely no trapped air pockets in the finished weld. After watching this, I’m tempted to try and practice some more with the flux core. The torch is much neater and more streamlined without the shroud, so working in tight spaces must be easier, if you master the technique.
Thanks, it's the R-Tec 180 machine, not me. It's a great bit of kit.
Nice job Dave, I thought you was going to just do the notch bit but the whole piece seemed a right idea, will done 👍
Nicely done Dave! Another job ticked off the list 👌👍
LOL I'd have sold you mine, I went LHD scuttle when I moved to a single wiper conversion, I also have a RHD wiper setup you could buy 😉
Hi Adrian, how much are you after for the RHD wipers? My LHD is missing the motor and the connecting arm, so I'd have to get that anyways
it seems you really like the mig welding without gas...maybe i should give it a try, save's me some money and just keep the argon bottle for my tig...keep up the good work! #ateliervollegaaz
It is much better than I expected, only thing I don't like is the white soot it creates, so it's a bit messy.
Nice one Dave ! Looking forward to the dash
A very neat piece of work Dave! - I’m really excited to see laying up the new dashboard into place and seeing where the vents and everything are. Back in the early seventies my bubble-arch Escort was from a standard RHD 1300GT shell, so was a lot simpler job. You have the golden touch young man!
Thank you Phil 😊
Good on you mate just came across ya channel today ...Reckon ya quite a skilled chappie hey
Thanks for the sub
It's coming along a treat. I've picked up some really great ideas from your videos. Could I ask what diameter flux cored wire you are using on the Escort?
Thank you, it's the 0.8mm wire
The cheaper Dremel copies vibrate i have the same as you eventually got rid of it bought a Dremel nice job on the scuttle panel for some reason i thought of Fred Scuttle AKA Benny Hill keep chipping away Dave
Ha ha, I'll have to add some Benny Hill music 🤔🤣
Absolutely top job Dave another great video, thanks for sharing your work. Watched from the start of your journey on here & enjoyed every second. Hope your keep growing the channel mate 💪🏻
Awesome, thank you!
Hi Dave, great work, is the reason the scuttle grille looks kinked because the grille is pressed to meet the slight peak in the bonnet? Also are you going to weld up the wiper post hole or will a grommet be okay?
Hi Steve, I wondered the same thing, I didn't look at it closely enough before I cut it up, but it fits the profile of the bonnet and looks ok, so I'm happy with it. And yes I will be welding up the holes. Ta
Well, you made that look easy?
😊 thank you
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A woman drove off the North Shields ferry in the 90's forgot she was in the UK had a head on with another car , the Nissan Sunny was a right off , a mate of mine bought the car asked me to weld a front end onto it , I drilled off the front end at the A posts and across the floor at the seam slotted it in , chassis number was on the bulkhead was cut out and replaced , was this naughty NO a few years before I worked in a bodyshop we did a Montego heavy front end damage a whole new front end was ordered from the dealer that was minus A posts joined across the floor , if it was good enough for the Rover group it was ok by me , I have joined several cars at the bulkhead a few mk4 Escorts , Mitsubishi Starion turbo the Nissan and my Orion but that was rear end across the rear boot floor seam , 2 halved my mk2 after crashing it , made a mk2 Mexico into a RS2000 lookalike restored several , I have been stopped by the police a couple of time for haveing too nice a car thinking they were ringers , I'm a panel beater thats why they are clean cars I done it up LOL .
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