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I took my sills and brackets to be shotblasted yesterday along with the bulkhead and radiator grill. The sills were rotton on the end like yours and I had to refab them. Also the small plates welded across were gone and had to be replaced. All good fun. My rebuild is a takeover of my eldest...

Took the bulkhead, radiator panel,apron and a few other bits to be shotblasted. Bunged it in the back of my old Astra. Estimated £110 plus vat. I will post final costs afterwards.

There is a mixture , i havent found them all yet,

Sorry I should have said this a 1983 series 3 It is 8 mm

I found some 5/16 unf nuts and bolts in a unopened packet. Courtesy of Homebase shutting downnd selling fasteners off cheap. So i bought about 30 packets of different sizes. 5/16 unf does not fit, M8 does. My son and have plenty of different taps but not an m8. cheers Peter

I'll try them both with some bolts, if i can find any. I have 2ba threads and unf and metric.on the car cheers peter

Hi As the heading says I just need the thread size for the two windscreen hinge bolts that screw into the bulkhead. Cant seem to find it in the book. Cheers peter

Thanks for the feedback guys, always interesting to hear different views/ideas. I just remembered the shotblast guy said that some people put wax in the threads for protection. I thought that would melt straight away, unless he was pulling my old todger. I do have some taps in my tap and reamer...

Hi folks I hope to be getting a bulkhead, radiator panel shotted and galved in the next few weeks. What have people done regarding the threaded holes in the parts? and did it work? I mentioned to the guy who is going to blast it for me about putting screws in the holes first and he didn't advise...

Hi Phil, Both my brackets are identical with holes going at 45 degrees roughly . My holes are welded up and have been ground over. I saw a couple of photos online which showed both bracket holes going in the same direction. chhers peter it is just the position of them I need.

Hi folks, After almost finishing welding up my bulkhead I realised that I have plugwelded up the bracket holes for the accelerator crosshaft. The two brackets that are mounted on the top corners. i can see roughly where they go but I don't know how accurate i need to be when re-drilling new...

Very good work Steve

I went decimal when I started work in 1962. Culture shock.

scraping seam sealant off of the bulkhead.

Golden rust

Went to make up a piece to weld in the bulkhead before I realised I had run out of 1.2 steel grrr.

I am 72 now and started on the welding fun last year. I have a clarke 90. about £220 and thats all I need for the steel bodywork. The chassis is a new galved one. If you are going to weld the chassis then think about a slightly bigger one, Gas? I opted for a gas only welder. Your choice. I...

Look for The Welding Wood on Face book, he makes repair parts for the bottom of the radiator panel plus many others.

I took it off the chassis to do some cleaning up in an awkward spot for welding and noticed there had been a rubber type glue spread over the inside in places. So it must have had some soundproofing in the past. I gave it a straighten up clamped between a couple of chunks of wood and a hammer...

My eldest son , whose project this was ordered a full kit of fasteners etc, Must have cost him a fortune. All in parts numbered bags.