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| posted on November 21st, 2013 at 07:41 PM |
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My 72 Squareback project
So i purchased a 1972 type 3 Squareback off a backpacker who drove it down from sydney to melbourne mid this year.
the car was awful rusty and every bit of mechanical needed an overhaul.
the plan is to turn it into an honest daily driver and hone some skills im going to use to resore my 66 and 54 bugs i swapped my 72 low light kombi
for after i rolled it  that was my first car and my first ever resto.
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| posted on November 21st, 2013 at 07:44 PM |
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Cool - this should be fun watching your adventures 
Futue te ipsum!!!
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| posted on November 21st, 2013 at 07:46 PM |
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so here it is.. well the side of it anyway 
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| posted on November 21st, 2013 at 08:08 PM |
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not sure why each image comes up twice!
anyway so far i have actually done quite a bit:
engine came out for rear main seal, new flywheel and clutch, new throw out bearing, rebuilt twin carbs, heads off for clean and inspection, full
degrease, new pushrod tubes, straightend out all the old tins and cleaned them up, bascially just a major service to an old engine. not shiny and new
just cleaned it up and made sure it will hold for another 50000km
swapped out the front suspension for a less worn unit, new tie rod ends, repaired some minor rust on the mouunting brackets, new calipers, disks,
lines and bearings.
new brakes on the rear with new drums, cylinders, beaings and regreased and replaced a couple of cv's
now i still have to replace a broken torsion bar and a gearbox mount both of these jobs i hate so ive started on the body work.. just today so i have
plenty of pics 
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| posted on November 21st, 2013 at 08:16 PM |
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so here are all of the pics i took of the car before i started
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| posted on November 21st, 2013 at 08:53 PM |
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so this is where ive started my body work because it looked the worst someone had welded a peice of stainless in to cover the rust
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so now that you kinda have an idea of how rough it is ill show you what ive been up too today
first i needed to cut out all the old rust i could get too, its so tempting to go overboard i just want a daily runner afterall.
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| posted on November 21st, 2013 at 09:48 PM |
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then i had to make a new inner skin
a quick fold and then lots of shrinking to make the right curve
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| posted on November 21st, 2013 at 09:51 PM |
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then weld it in place and trim it to size
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now i need to make the outer skin that will become the new wheel arch and firewall.
this is just after ive had it on the roller and im checking the shape
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| posted on November 21st, 2013 at 10:01 PM |
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now that im happy with the general shape, the piece needs to be folded twice to make the original style contour where the fender bolts up.
i used a sheet metal folder to get the general shape then some quick dolly work to make the tapered edge just like the factory panel. well my best
effort anyway.
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now i need to fill the hole at the end of the heater channel, i just cut up a small section of steel and folded it.
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| posted on November 21st, 2013 at 10:10 PM |
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so what ive done here is trace the contour of the heater channel onto the metal while holding it in place.
what your looking at is me comparing the shape ive traced to the hole im trying to fill. its a mirror image
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| posted on November 21st, 2013 at 10:17 PM |
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im nearly happy here. i was just using tin snips to cut it down to size
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| posted on November 21st, 2013 at 10:22 PM |
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lots of tac welds and its in
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| posted on November 21st, 2013 at 10:23 PM |
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just a quick check before i cut my outer skin. the small cylinders are very strong magnets.
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| posted on November 21st, 2013 at 10:26 PM |
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so a great tip i have learned is to put the panel your going to use in place with a magnet or tac it whatever. then mark out the lines your going to
use to cut the panel make sure its bigger that the hole in the original body you have already made. when you make the cut the result is two panels
that match up correctly with a perfect gap just the thickness of a blade between them. the gap you leave allows the weld to get the best possible
penetration and your life a whole lot easier.
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| posted on November 21st, 2013 at 10:46 PM |
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and that was all i had time for today tomorrow ill be doing another couple of hours of work on the bonnet area its like swiss cheese all around the
fuel line and the drainage points. im not sure ill be as productive as today but who knows.
Oh i wont be finishing off the welding on the patches just yet i want to do all my fabrication as quickly as possible i going for a christmas deadline
 welding isnt that time consuming
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| posted on November 22nd, 2013 at 07:03 AM |
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well done mate looking good, i wouldnt say thats a super rusty fatty, id say its rust in the normal spots
volkaholics.net come check us out
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| posted on November 22nd, 2013 at 08:41 AM |
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Great work! I've had mine for a year and haven't done nearly half as much work as you've done in a few days! However it looks like you know what
you're doing.... Especially with the metal work side of things!
Your rust is in all the same spots as mine. Including the bumper brackets and water drains under the bonnet.
Will be keeping a close eye on this thread and learning a lot.
Good luck!!
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| posted on November 22nd, 2013 at 06:51 PM |
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Cheers Guys! i only got to work on the car for 2 hours today and im off for the weekend for a mates engagement so i have to wait until monday to get
my hands dirty again.
anyway excuses aside today i started on the rust i have around the bonnet seal and near the petrol filler. this area had been poorly fixed in the past
and someone had riveted bit of an old fridge to cover it up.
in this first picture you can see the seal lip that i have cut out to replace. the seal had been removed and dirt and leaves had been sitting wet for
long enough to turn it to powder.
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| posted on November 22nd, 2013 at 07:11 PM |
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the small section i have taken is now trimmed to size.. oops too small!
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| posted on November 22nd, 2013 at 07:15 PM |
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ive tacked it in place but i need to fill the gap ive made by cutting it too short. to fill it ive just taken another smaller section from the same
piece.
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