I've done this job- and your B is a proper rotter! Check the rear spring hangers are ok- especially the front ones- they are a bugger to do. In the UK we call that skinny full length piece that you weld the outer sill to the 'diaphragm' and the much folded piece along the bottom is a 'Castle rail'. Just for info. Good luck!
Really good to see this being done properly. Sills / Rockers are so often replaced without the bracing you have done. Buying a "restored" MGB is a real problem as so many have been simply botched and this car is so easy to botch up with some patches and cut in panels. Best bet is to buy a rust bucket and get someone like you to do a decent job.
thanks man! yea i agree its hard to know what type of quality your getting from restorations now unless you personally know the shop that did it. im just waiting on rear 1/4 panels and outside inner rear wheel wells and front and rear valences to show up this week by next spring im hoping to have all the sheet metal work done on the car
Great informative video. I'm about to do my sills on a '72 MGB. I kept wondering what to do to keep the body from tweaking out of shape when replacing the sills. Great idea with the brace. I have seen an MGB where the sills rusted out and the body just collapsed right in the middle.
It's hard for things like this cause if I call them sills I make the north american crowd angry and if I call them rockers I make the European croud angry. In north America we call them rocker panels even the us division of moss motors has them labeled as rocker panels. It's the same as the trunk/boot or hood/bonnet argument I'm just stuck in the middle trying/failing to make everyone happy
Just wrapping up the same job on a 68. Done a few of these over the years and it seems to consistently take 100 hours to do the floors and sills. Add another 7 for the cross-member. Fun watching someone else suffer! :)
I've done this job- and your B is a proper rotter! Check the rear spring hangers are ok- especially the front ones- they are a bugger to do. In the UK we call that skinny full length piece that you weld the outer sill to the 'diaphragm' and the much folded piece along the bottom is a 'Castle rail'. Just for info. Good luck!
Really good to see this being done properly. Sills / Rockers are so often replaced without the bracing you have done. Buying a "restored" MGB is a real problem as so many have been simply botched and this car is so easy to botch up with some patches and cut in panels. Best bet is to buy a rust bucket and get someone like you to do a decent job.
thanks man! yea i agree its hard to know what type of quality your getting from restorations now unless you personally know the shop that did it. im just waiting on rear 1/4 panels and outside inner rear wheel wells and front and rear valences to show up this week by next spring im hoping to have all the sheet metal work done on the car
Great informative video. I'm about to do my sills on a '72 MGB. I kept wondering what to do to keep the body from tweaking out of shape when replacing the sills. Great idea with the brace. I have seen an MGB where the sills rusted out and the body just collapsed right in the middle.
Thanks yea the brace worked quite well for me.
Rocker assembly ? On UK cars these are called SILLS . Inner sill and outer sill.
Rockers are in the cylinder head to operate the valves.
It's hard for things like this cause if I call them sills I make the north american crowd angry and if I call them rockers I make the European croud angry. In north America we call them rocker panels even the us division of moss motors has them labeled as rocker panels.
It's the same as the trunk/boot or hood/bonnet argument I'm just stuck in the middle trying/failing to make everyone happy
Just wrapping up the same job on a 68. Done a few of these over the years and it seems to consistently take 100 hours to do the floors and sills. Add another 7 for the cross-member. Fun watching someone else suffer! :)
yea thats probably about where ill wind up for hours its definatly a big job
Great work ! How ur gonna protect the new sills ?
I'm thinking of using cavity wax. But need to figure out if I should leave the ecoat on or strip it and paint furst