ST162-7254182 "Dirty Deeds" Edited

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Well with the exception of the windshield frame the worst is over.
Now its time to get rid of the rust.

The weatherman is calling for 2 days without rain


So I put the wheels back on to it and took it off the jack stands and waited
for the mornings rain to dry up.


Twins. I put up a couple of tarps to help contain the sand.


Starting to look like a beach


Passenger side rocker


Pasenger side rear fender


Front of passenger side rear fender well


Back of passenger side rear fender well


Passenger side rear quarter panel


Back of passenger side


Back of drivers side


That was the worst side. That took 3 1/2 hours this afternoon. It gets dark
around 5pm now so I quit. I'll put a new lens in the sand blasting hood and go
over it again it was starting to get dark when I was doing some of that. The
lens gets so scratched from rickocheting sand thats it soon becomes a piece of
heavilly frosted glass, especially when you have to work in tight areas like rocker
panels and fender wells. After dinner I went out and did the 2 rear strut towers
inside the car. When I got out of the car it was raining....stupid weatherman. ugh

 

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These are pictures from tuesday night when I did some of the inside of the car.

This is under the drivers side rear taillight.


Back of the drivers side rear wheel well


Drivers side rear strut tower


Drivers side rear strut tower


Front of the drivers side rear wheel well


Drivers side rear seat floor


Drivers side rear seat floor


Passenger side hatch floor


Passenger side rear strut tower


Passenger side rear strut tower


Passenger side rear wheel well


Yesterday I got the drivers side rocker panel and rear fender and behind
the front fender done and went over the passenger side areas again, what
a pita it only got up to about 5 celcius yesterday and the sand blasting
hood kept fogging up inside so although I had a nice clear new lens in the
hood I had to stop every few minutes and clean the moisture of the inside
of the lens. You got to really love your Celicas to do this kind of shit. Trying
to stick your head up inside the rear fender while its inside the big sand blasting
hood and get a light in their and the sand blasting gun isn't really fun and I
could think of a million more enjoyable things I could be doing but hopefully
it will help save this poor thing. I really should have removed the rear struts
before I did the rear wheel wells/stut towers but I didn't so thats life even if
I had of removed them it's still a nasty job to have to do. I much prefer when
I can put parts in my booth. Then it got dark so I had to clean up the area
and recover my sand so it doesn't get wet and hope that theirs 1 or 2 more
nice days left this year.

I had to quite on wednesday and recover all my sand cause I knew I was getting
this pile of crap dumped on me thursday.....and they say global warming is a
problem....it's not helping me :mrgreen:

 

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Well the weather didn't get any better today but hopefully the weather
will get a bit better next week.


But who knows weathermen are pretty 'useless' they can't even get the
days of the week right so I hold out little hope for their weather forcasts


Well I at least pulled the tarp back a bit to get a couple pictures of the
drivers side. That fender was pretty much spotless when I finished so that
just shows how quickly a bit of humidity in the air can put new rust in
previously rusted areas.
Drivers side rear fender


Once again pretty much rust free when I finished sand blasting. Luckilly this
is just a bit of surface rust and will come of real easy.
Drivers side rocker panel


Drivers side rear strut tower


Drivers side rear strut tower

 

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Heres an example of what happens to the lens in the sand blasting hood.
I picked something nice and bright to show you how crappy the lens gets.


Yes the orange part is still behind the lens. This is the lens I was useing last
tuesday.


Picked up some more goodies for the car. Canadian tire had a 4 1/2" grinder
accesory kit on sale for half price and the rocker guard was 25% off. I also
decided that for this winter the car will be looking as evil as possible with a
coat of flat black. It's to late in the fall/winter? to do a good paint job so I
think its going to be the rat rod look for now. That can of rust check stuff
is what I'm going to spray inside the rocker panels and inside the car on the
srut towers and behind the rear wheel wells on the inside of the rear quarter
panels and inside the car on the panel that goes from behind the door column
to the rear wheel well. The blue/white box is another 8" round spool of .023"
wire for my Mig welder.

 

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The drivers side door sill and rear seat floor pan was done last wednesday.




The weatherman was hyping up sunday all week long so I reorganized
my work so I didn't have to leave until 6pm on sunday to go to work.
I started in the morning with a pic to remove the undercoating from seams.


Then I sand blasted most of the passenger side floor.










I decided that since its so late in the year and humidity is causeing
new rust on previously sand blasted areas that I would end early
enough to do a good cleanup and get a coat of rust check on the
newly cleaned area.






I didn't sand blast the rusty bit near the center of this picture cause
its going to be cut out anyways.


When I started sand blasting this car the bin was absolutely full of
sand. I did a pretty good job of containing the sand to the work area
so I guess the loss is just from sand that has been pulverized into
oblivion.

 

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After reacting with the metal for a day you can see that it has neutralized
the rust

 

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Well this morning I got under the car and started to scrape off the undercoating
where it was starting to peel away










These are the tools I used underneath the car to scrape away the old undercoating


Then it was back to sand blasting inside. Kind of reminds me of playing in the sandbox.


I got the 2 rear strut towers and the hatch area done and started on the drivers side
rear floor.

 

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Well this is from back on tuesday I got the car jacked up higher so I could do the underbody.


I also got the inside back of the car finished except for the spare tire well.




On wednesday I didn't get much done. I had to go pay my respects for remembrance
day and then after the ceremony being its a small town lots of people you don't see
very much show up. I did get the rest of the front passenger side foot well finished
and started on the drivers side front floor.

Thursday was alot better. Got the rest of the interior finished except the spare tire
well and did the 2 rocker panels again and the drivers side rear wheel well. Just have
the passenger side rear wheel well to redo and then get underneath and do the under
body.

 

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Well I can see where their might be an end in sight to this sand blasting hell.

Drivers side door sill


Drivers side rear fender


Drivers side rocker


Inside drivers rear wheel well


Inside drivers rear wheel well, fuel filler area


Inside drivers rear wheel well, top of strut tower. Where you see green X's
its not rust its the old undercoating which is still in good shape so I left it.


Piss me off another hole in the roof right in front of the hatch


Right in front of the drivers side hinge


A few spots to clean up along the rear hatch area






Drivers side front floor


Passenger side front floor


Passenger side door sill


Passenger side rocker panel

 

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Thats a kind way of putting it. crazy

Unfortunatly it doesn't end there. It gets worse. I found an Ottawa add
for a coupe

So that would meet my 2 requirements of being a coupe and being a GTS.
So I'm trying to convince him that his baby should be restored or



perhaps turned into something a little more radical. He said that the last time
he had it up on a hoist a year ago the strut towers were still there. I'll have
to drag myself down there and take a look at it.

 

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Yeah well I'm sure thats the excuse I'll be useing to get it in the yard
and avoid a big fight with the wife about how many Celica's I own.
cuss <---wife...me---> :roll:
crazy <---wife...me---> toetap05
rant <---wife...me---> bs
Then magically while its in the garage being stripped the bodywork gods
come in and restore it. naughty

 

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I got the rest of the rust cut out of the passenger side front floor


and the spare tire well


Heres a couple of interesting pictures. When I blow compressed air on the inside
of the window it leaks out along the bottom of the window between the 2 green
lines where you can see the sand has been blown away. Obviously in addition to
these windows not sealing along the top they also don't seal to well along the bottom


The drivers side window was not sealed along the bottom between the 2 green
lines and again between the 2 blue lines


The spare tire well after sand blasting


The inside top of the passenger side strut tower


Back of the passenger side rear wheel well


Top of the passenger side rear wheel well


Front of the passenger side rear wheel well


Any critical underbody parts like suspension mounting points were cleaned up




Most of the seams were stripped of their undercoating and sand blasted


Anywhere where their was a hole or the undercoating was pealing away was
sand blasted




Passenger side under the firewall


All spots where a new panel needs to be welding in had their undercoating
scraped away around the edge and sand blasted


Hopefully I should get the sand blasting finished tomorrow. Just have the drivers
side underbody left to sand blast. Its already been scraped :thumbsup:

 

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One of you guys PM'd me this but the real purpose of a forum is to share information
so just post questions in my thread and I'll try to answer them

The replacement panels I have in place in this picture are 14 guage. You could
probably get away with 16 guage. When I make the outer pieces for the rockers
they could be done in either 18 or 20 guage


As far as the hatch is concerned I have some rust on the drivers side bottom corner
I will cut along the green line and probably use a piece of 14/16 guage to replace it.


If I'm guessing right your problem is more in the center so if I asume the yellow spots
are rust holes I would cut along the green line and bend up a right angled piece of
14/16 guage to replace it. You could get away with an 18/20 guage piece of metal
but I always like to over engineer repairs.