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A change of focus from printing. This is my Scorpio that had been patched a few years ago but is now suffering extensive tin worm.
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Doesn't look too bad in those pics. Hope it's not the f'ugly bug eyed version?
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Yes it is the Marmite version. Makes life interesting because there are no aftermarket panels. Mk3 Granny panels are somewhere near, so have to be tweaked.
You can't see the worst of it, that is all underneath. Ideally the inner sill wants cutting out and replacing too, but I think that I am going to rebuild it piecemeal and then revisit the problem in the summer. I can't get the car any higher in the workshop which makes it awkward and fills the workshop with grinding / rust dust. I managed to smash a 6' tube trying to get the last inch of height so now I have to replace the lamps too!
Additionally I have some fault finding to do... Mirrors and windows don't work, A/C has a mind of its own and the rev counter stopped working when I last replaced the alternator. I know where to look for the issues, but with my Vertigo, it is not as much fun as it could be.
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I did similar on a Granada estate in the same colour back in the 80s. That's done well to have lasted this long. I had to rebuild the bottom of a door pillar as well.
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One reason for the rot became apparent when the damage was cut away. There is a drain from the sun roof that terminates inside the sill!
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This is interesting as I have a MK3 Granada project car (24v as well!) although I need to finish the Sierra before I start taking it to bits. I actually don't mind the "bug eye" Scorpio, I remember when they first came out and I thought they were quite smart if rather American looking. I appreciate I'm in the minority though!
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At least when you are behind the wheel you can't see the front of it....
Lancia dumped the rear sunroof drains into the sides of the boot behind the inner wings in Deltas - so they were hidden, lower than the main boot floor, and the drain hole in there used to let water/silt in that was thrown up behind the rear wheel . . . so it held it all nicely damp . . . Bit of nylon air line jammed up the end of the sunroof drain and out through the drain holes - mine didn't rot out there.
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Rumour has it that on the Capri, there was a shortage of the tubing used to drain the sunroofs so the length meant for one side was cut in two.
I can confirm in at least one of my cars the tubes end part way up the A post rather than continuing down into the sill with predictable results!
I can confirm in at least one of my cars the tubes end part way up the A post rather than continuing down into the sill with predictable results!
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nice to see the old Fords getting help.....
more photo's pls....
more photo's pls....
I hadn’t heard that story but nothing would surprise me! Extending the tubes was a good idea, after unblocking them of course….
I presume you are a Fordy then?
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You can just see the pipe, cut at a 45 degree angle at the front of the cut in the sill. I will be re-routing that.
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I've heard other makes exist but it could just be a rumour...
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On your knees, with Vertigo in your mid sixties? I can remember in my 20s swapping a starter motor, lying in snow. How things have changed!
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On your knees, with Vertigo in your mid sixties? I can remember in my 20 swapping a starter motor, lying in snow. How things have changed!
I changed my fuel pipe the other month with Covid!
Oh, alright it was a mild case sorted with Lemsip and I had use of a ramp...
Lol ,,, every time I start into a dirty rusty land rover I think the exact same thing ,,,, 40 years on and Im still doing the same thing I was then ,,, fixing garbage ..On your knees, with Vertigo in your mid sixties? I can remember in my 20s swapping a starter motor, lying in snow. How things have changed!
Granted now I get in a decent car and drive to a nice house and leave the horrid rusting car with someone else instead of having to drive it home , so maybe things are not that bad after all .
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First patch ready to tack.
