First Weld In Place

Yes tonight for the first time I have added some nice shiny new metal to my MG Midget. 

Damaged Area

So from this photo above you can see the extent of the damage to the wheel arch viewing from the inner sill. The complicated part of this is that there are so many panels coming together at this point.

Support Repair

This is the rusted support that connects the wheel arch in the background of the top picture to the inner section closest to you.

So I needed to make up a new section as shown above. (I'll have to upload a photo of this new part later) 

But you can hopefully get an idea how these parts fit together from this photo.

But before that I had to make up a small repair which you can seen partly welded in below.

First Weld!

I will tidy this up during my next session. But got it straight and in place which was my main concern. The welder was a little problematic. I really do need to work out how I can get it to be more consistent. Would help me enormously!

Fuel Gauge Repaired

I seem to spend a lot of time scrolling through ebay trying to find little bargains here and there. Two weeks ago a guy called Keith in the USA was selling an original second hand Smiths Fuel Gauge FG2530/70 face! 

I really couldn't believe my luck as avid readers of my blog may remember that I ruined mine trying to clean it.

Cleaning damage

So I made sure I won the item and set to work replacing the old face with my new purchase and I have to say that you can't help thinking that some things happen for a reason, as my completed fuel gauge looks way better than mine ever did!

Ready to go

Old face removed, all ok inside

Old v's new

New face fitted

Looking better than ever!