arch-itecture

I'm starting to do work on the Daimler quicker than I can keep the Blog up to date, which can only be a good thing, but sometimes I wonder if anyone is actually following it and whether or not I should spend so much time explaining myself!

I'm so amazed they are done! You may notice the 'before' photos are dated May '09 and the actual welding was all done in a day on 11/2/11 so quite a big gap but it did lead me to then press on with the outer sill fitment to the driver's side which is now done also!! This job started in 2004 I think.

before inner arch lip could be welded on a small repair was needed to bottom edge of the outer wheelarch pressing

viewed from inside the wheelarch you can see the small flange turned inwards to sit on top of outer sill. I don't know if there was a flange originally as there was nothing left to refer to but the inboard half of the wheelarch pressing had one which I replicated so I figured both sides would have same feature. The flange on the inboard panel has been left long as it needs to be turned down to match original so there is some to trim off before that is done

wider view with sill end cap loosely fitted shows how it all merges together.

guaging how high to make cut on original inner arch lip caused much headscratching as there was a bit of dubiety about where the original lip ended as it was rusty. original black paint still intact on inside face but there was rust on the other side which is covered by the outer wing

after hours and hours and hours of measuring, marking, clamping, trimming and measuring again the two original panel and the new lip were clamped in place and butt welded together which went surprisingly well

rear end of the inner lip caused few problems. have left corroded bit of outer lip on as guide as repair panel does not include all of this and will need to be altered to suit

all done on the arch inner lip. dots show where spot welds were on original panels. also done a small repair on the curved edge of the panel containing the fuel sender access hole. left deliberately oversize as it needs to be trimmed to correct radius

very happy with job viewed from inside. taking off IRS has greatly improved access

tying up repairs to rear end of sill area has allowed me to finally make first welds to put outer sill on. front end turned out very neat apart from problem getting sit to sit up higher inside A post. there seemd to be a slight twist in the sill pressing. this has given a bigger than standard gap between sill and door bottom