Triumph Stag Rescue

[Wendy Dawes]

Now that’s what I call a project,  brave man 👍

 

[Jason C]

Incredible work Matt! That’s an epic project, lots of quality work already  done. Looking forward to seeing the next repairs to the body. 🔨

[Matt306]

House jobs have stopped work and varying problems with a Peugeot 207 . I am going to fuel inject the TR7 then it will be back to Stag Rescue.

[Matt306]

Right back to it today. I am still working around the area behind the heel board where the suspension mounts. It's very rotten there buy as you can see new metal is going in. 

My hardest bit is fixing the bracket for the suspension. This is made in pure unobtanium so I have had to improvise with plaster of Paris to make a mould from the opposite side I have welded in a thick washer and will weld that with 2mm sheet steel pieces. No it won't be pretty but it will work and that's fine.

[Redstag]

Wow Matt - this is some project you are doing. It will really be worth it on the end for you will know so much about your car when it’s done. You are clearly a chap with great skills and a dedicated mind set - can’t wait to see how this develops..

[Matt306]

Bracket now repaired so we can hold up the suspension! It's not pretty but solid

[Rubce]

Hi Matt

Keep on going, your doing great work🍻

Regards

Bruce

Edited June 4, 2022 by Rubce

[Matt306]

So more fiddling today Outer sill attached and also the suspension mounting point attached.

 

Going to start on the area around the rear seat and wheel arch next. With that done I'll move back to the A post and front.

I can jack the car up now though...

[Martins Stag]

Looks good, interesting to see the electric window motor mounted from the outside!

[Matt306]

Slow progress big project. Attention has been on the A post. The windscreen surround is made up of 3 pieces. The bottom of the middle one is welded to the A post. Well mine wasn't it was rotten.  I spotted a bulk head on Ebay... Good parts donor for lots of unobtainable parts panels. 

Work is going well on repair to the windscreen surround and A post. 

[Matt306]

Been onto the B post and repaired the bottom where it meets the sill this was non existent before. But we have metal there before. The pattern parts follow the wrong profile so using the one I had I used as much as I could of the old curvature to fabricate a new curve. Little bit more fettling then it will be done.

 

[Matt306]

Some more work on the B post today

[Matt306]

Next problem is the LH chassis leg.

This is extremely rusty.  They also seem to be made of unobtanium. 

Looking at old part lists it appears the chassis leg is one piece but on cutting it out it appears to be two pieces or this has been cut before.

The back piece appears to be a ushape spot welded to the front section it looks well made so I imagine that was how it was made.

On to repair though I think I will have to make 3 parts to form a U shape which will plug weld onto the existing piece with a some seam welds.

 

[Redstag]

Keep going Matt - this is awesome work. You have great talents and fantastic perseverance 

[Matt306]

49 minutes ago, Redstag said:

Keep going Matt - this is awesome work. You have great talents and fantastic perseverance 

Thanks for the response . It's a long road to recovery for this one

[Matt306]

Well today I have been prodding and cutting around the rear suspension mount under the rear seat. Lots of rot nothing which can't be repaired as I have done on the offside.

[mpbarrett]

gosh not much metal left anywhere!

 

[Matt306]

13 minutes ago, mpbarrett said:

gosh not much metal left anywhere!

 

There lots just not the bottom 6 inches

[Matt306]

Right today removed what's left of the inner sill. I was going to weld on a repair at the back from the repair panel as they aren't the best but then decided that I would just use the whole panel anyway.  The front angle isn't the best but I can cut and weld it. 

[Matt306]

Bit more progress with the new sill in. Just tacked in at the moment 

[mole42]

This has to be the bravest restoration I've ever seen. Fair play to you!!

Edited October 6, 2023 by mole42

[Matt306]

1 hour ago, mole42 said:

This has to be the bravest restoration I've ever seen. Fair play to you!!

Or just plain daft

[Matt306]

Small update due to Covid knocking me out for my days off... just one day working on the chassis rail.

This was pretty rotten but it's made of a few parts the rear bit slots inside the front bit and is spot welded together. Underneath a closing panel joins it all together. 

 

So the old one was full of holes. The replacement I sourced was better but still needed repairs. Although there are but welds the over lapping nature of the part adds strength with them plug welded together.

The floor pan on top adds further strength as this is plug welded to the rail. 

The chassis rail is connected to the sill at the side and the cross member at the rear. The chassis rail also has the gearbox support bolted to it.

Just a couple of pics of where we got to to tonight.  Needs some weld through primer to protect.

Added the before to show progress

[Wendy Dawes]

Amazing feat to undertake, anyone else might have thought about breaking it.  Great job Matt 👍

Edited October 19, 2023 by Wendy Dawes

[Matt306]

14 hours ago, Wendy Dawes said:

Amazing feat to undertake, anyone else might have thought about breaking it.  Great job Matt 👍

Wendy if I keep adding steel to it the weigh in weight will get more! 

It's quite nice just to post on here and get the positive reaction ,it spurs me on to the next bit.