Further photos of my rather rotten Triumph 2000 estate

[Callan Hyde]

Some update photos on my triumph 2000 estate. 

Knew it was bad when i bought it but not quite this bad 😂

Ive sourced a donor car which has had a rear end smack as well as being remarkably rotten. This is donating the entire front end, tunnel and various other bits as well as all mechanicals as car was motd not long ago. 

Ive removed the front end off the brown car and currently in the process of repairing everything which the new front end is supposed to attach to. Ive replaced a lot of the tunnel, both footwells, ends of both sills, centre of the bullkhead, drain panel and still got to do the bulkhead where flitch panels join on. All seams where the existing front end attached to the car were so rotten the car wouldve wallowed down the road terribly had i not replaced the entire lot. 

Once repairs to the bulkhead are done, i will be positioning the front end in place before welding to the car. Everything is being done at the panel seams, only exception being the vertical of the flitch panel on the inside of the apron which i could not drill the spot welds out due to the angle. The brackets on the bulkhead behind the inner wings will be sufficiently repaired and reinforced once all attached. 

Certainly quite the undertaking. I didnt look to closely at the car prior to its purchase. Sold new in my town, low mileage and quite well recognised even having been laid up in 84, it had to be bought. Paid through the nose for the thing to have the privelage lol 

I feel pretty confident to say that nearly everybody else wouldve broke it for parts or raced it. 

Plan is to build it into a bit of a weapon when done. Converting to manual OD and 2.7l fast road engine when done. Going to take it really quite low, bring the wheels out a bit, chin splitter and some other tasteful mods. Itll become another one of my daily drivers when done same as the rest of the fleet. 

[yorkshire_spam]

Cor, that's some serious "fun"

 

[Topic63]

Brave, brave young man......💪💪💪👍

[Dion]

BIG job! It did not look half bad on the "previous" pics.

Very brave to cut off the whole front end - Americans call it the front clip (which always sound weird to me as "clip" should be a small thingy to hold something. Paper clip. A clip to hold trim pieces). 

[Colin Caygill]

Great effort. I love these cars...but the rust!! I bought one in 1977 it was 2 years old, and it had a rusty roof. Why? Also the top of the boot lid. By the standards of the day we expected it around the wheel arches and sills, but I always thought it was unacceptable to have a bloomin roof go rotten. 

I didn't know about crankshaft end float with when I was 21! I replaced the clutch at least twice and still couldn't get 1st. Fond memories though.

[Callan Hyde]

On 04/11/2021 at 16:01, Dion said:

BIG job! It did not look half bad on the "previous" pics.

Very brave to cut off the whole front end - Americans call it the front clip (which always sound weird to me as "clip" should be a small thingy to hold something. Paper clip. A clip to hold trim pieces). 

Didnt have much of a choice with the front end, tops of both chassis legs had gone and all the seams around the turrets and flitch panels were so rotten i wouldve needed to remove them all and replace the joining material on both panels. Far easier to do it this way, well easiest wouldve been to cut it at the front pillars and further back down the sill and join them that way lol Done this way as the alternative is a little frowned upon