Can a Beginner Fix Rusty Sills? - Sill Fabrication and Welding (Part 1)
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- Опубліковано 6 січ 2023
- My Jaguar X-type is almost ready to go back on the road however the sills are rusty. I have never done any major rust repair before. How hard can it be? Beginner DIY rust repair of a sill with fabrication and welding.
Previous videos on this car:
• Jaguar X-type Restoration
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Great job! When my Mazda 5 van was getting near 300000km, the plastic sills had practically nothing to hold them, because the steel sills were gone, due to rust. Also, my dad has a spray gun for rust-proofing cars, that he plugs to the air compressor. It helps a lot to slow down the rust.
Many cars have some scary things hiding under the plastic sills
Heat the sheet when your bending something long always helps 👍
Im a big fan of leaving body work to anyone else who's willing to do it. Glad to see you saving this jag!!!
I’ve done that in the past but I want to learn. Seems to be a good skill to have
The joy of the X type I have to weld mine every year for inspection you are doing a great job you are not a lone
Everything is very rust proofed now so I hope I won't have to weld it for a while.
Scott from "coldwarmotors" is also a genius when it comes to rebuilding rusty cars, checking out his '60 Plymouth Fury project is highly recommended.
Great work on the channel Adam, personally I can't wait to see more progress on your early XJ-S.
Yes he’s great! Love that channel
Keep at it Adam, you can get this done!
Thank you!
Nice. Insane though that a modern car like the X type had rusted so much!
Many cars with these types of sills rust like this. The S-type is the same, Range Rover, etc..
This is great. I had an old rust bucket MG and Triumph Spitfire that needed this sort of work but I didn’t have your skills and sense of adventure. Hence my old roadster classics rotted back into the earth!!
It would be handy to learn how to fix rust when I deal with old cars. Well that was my logic at least 😂
@@LivingWithAClassic great logic. Will add years to the life of a car and keep it from getting unsightly bubble rash on visible panels.
Be carefully of the windows Adam. The first car welding job I did, l managed to etche a window with welding splatter. Good luck .
Yes I plan on covering them. I’ve seen weld slatter on other car windows
@@LivingWithAClassic Not just weld splatter, grinding sparks will burn into glass, you only notice when they rust, go on ask me how I know, we all have to learn.
Great progress Adam my go to channel for anything welding or fabrication is nitrosilvia all the best donny
I’ll check that channel out. Thanks for the tip Donny!
@@LivingWithAClassic he is a wizard with metal and old rovers
Hi Adam . I think you have enough advisors so l won't interfere . But , when you were cutting the sheet metal be careful that the grinding swarf doesn't get on bodywork. If it gets wet it will rust and bond itself to glass , bodywork etc and then it's virtually impossible to remove . Not a good idea on customers vehicles ! Cheers !
Yes that I why I was cutting it against the wall. All the cars are also covered in thick materials
And a pair of ear plugs to protect your hearing from the noise
Got them on under my hat
I may already have suggested this, but I'd recommend "Fitzee's Fabrication" channel as a source of inspiration and instruction. You may not believe what he manages to conjure from utter rust-buckets. He does appear to have an infinite supply of "scrap" on hand from absurd sources.
Thanks I'm going to check that out. Always fun to check out more channels and talented people.
Good progress. There is a guy on you tube. Mechanic Steve. Does everything by hand no benders or special tools
Thanks for the tip! Need to check it out
I would have done the whole sill/rocker panel, I could not find any inner sill replacements, but there seems to be some outer panels. I much prefer to replace the whole thing rather than patching.
Well the point of the project was to practice making a patch panel. It’s why I bought this particular car. Normally I’m all for replacing complete panels but then this project wouldn’t of happened.
Good for you i learnt this by trial and error. Obviously you will not have to be to pretty with the repairs to the inner diaphragm part. The part that gives the sill strength. It is just a matter of practise.
So far it’s really fun and an enjoyable process
Hi Adam, great start. Check out the "Cut and Butt" technique Fitzee's Fabrications uses. Looks like it would be perfect for what you're doing. When welding, do only very short lengths at a time to avoid putting to much heat into the thin sheet metal and distorting it.
www.youtube.com/@fitzeesfabrications
Thanks for the tip! I checked out a few of his videos and that’s a great technique I will need to try sometime
If i was you i would cover the car to your right if you are going to use an angle grinder that close to car it doesn't take many sparks landing on your paintwork to ruin it!