Vin6409 engine rebuild

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Re: Vin6409 engine rebuild

Postby bandit » Thu Jun 11, 2020 5:04 pm

Nice steady progress :) love it. Will be great once you’ve gone through it, dead satisfying as well
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Re: Vin6409 engine rebuild

Postby Kenny » Thu Jun 11, 2020 10:13 pm

Looking well Shane, I'd say your the only guy to do a frame off twice on the same car!


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Re: Vin6409 engine rebuild

Postby cis6409 » Fri Jun 12, 2020 10:30 pm

Thanks guys! It's a great learning experience but yes Julian def satisfying to.

Jaysus you might be right there kenny :shock:,

I wonder am I!? :lol: :doh:
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Re: Vin6409 engine rebuild

Postby andyd » Sat Jun 13, 2020 8:06 am

If not, then maybe the only one doing a frame off on a car you already galv'd ?!

Not criticising! Very much enjoying reading all this, and all the great photos.

Its also a really useful resource! :thumbsup:

(And for you when you come to put it back together!!)

Keep going, your tenacity and determination is bucking frilliant!

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Re: Vin6409 engine rebuild

Postby cis6409 » Mon Jun 15, 2020 2:56 pm

:thumbsup: Thanks Andy
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Re: Vin6409 engine rebuild

Postby cis6409 » Sat Aug 08, 2020 11:59 pm

Sorry for the delay on updates.. It's been a bit of a Rollercoaster recently..

Anyways after checking out and removing the bad rusty fuel lines for replacement, a piece of the chassis was catching my eye.

I could see a dent/ stress crack it looked like on the double skin area behind the trailing arm. It didn't look right.

Well on closer inspection it was what I feared. Rust.

This however was not the galvanising fault I'll add. This was wholly on me. I did not open up every box section and this was the pay back.
I wrongly believed at the time that the galvanising would seep in everywhere and it ll be fine.

Well yes it will creep in everywhere but it can't molucelarly bond to the steel. It has to be absolutely clean metal. No rust/ dirt/oil/epoxy etc.

On reflection we did not have the likes of surface processing or prostrip at the time to properly get off everything in the box sections that you can't see. But nobody in Ireland has that service for such a big item like a delorean chassis and still don't even today I think..
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Re: Vin6409 engine rebuild

Postby cis6409 » Sun Aug 09, 2020 12:10 am

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Re: Vin6409 engine rebuild

Postby cis6409 » Sun Aug 09, 2020 12:14 am

The passenger side was not as bad but still needed serious attention.

Grinding or cutting galvanising is one thing but welding it is harder to do and very bad for your health I've learned.

so decided best thing to do was to strip the galvanising off the whole thing and see how bad the chassis is after and if there is any other areas hiding that need surgery...
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Re: Vin6409 engine rebuild

Postby cis6409 » Sun Aug 09, 2020 12:21 am

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Re: Vin6409 engine rebuild

Postby cis6409 » Sun Aug 09, 2020 12:33 am

Started cutting out the worst of it and then
getting it ready for blasting to have the metal nice and clean for welding..
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