Post 25: Front Shroud and a little engine stuff

7 April 2018
Post 25: Front Shroud and a little engine stuff
To start the front shroud looked a bit beaten up to the right side edge of the bonnet.  On closer inspection and sanding! it became clear why as there was a lot of bondo under the paint and a hole as you can see in the image below.

Paint and bondo removed to reveal a slash in the panel.

Thinking what to do about the slash I thought I would make a reverse panel, glue and rivet as advised.  The first stage of that is in the next image.




Clamped in place while the glue sets.

The partially finished repair stuck in place

The fix seemed to be rigid so just filling from that point then - simple right? well it is on the TV, I have made a stab at first fill, more to do to make it flat but this image shows how far I got today.




First fill, reasonable at this stage I think, second fill sometime later

What about the engine then - in between messing with the shroud I thought I could add a few parts, manifolds, dynamo, radiator.  Again - I need to get battery at this - totally forgot to take images when I had the dynamo dismantled.  Totally cleaned it out, painted it and put it back together.

starting to look like a real engine then already