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Posted: **Wed Mar 25, 2020 7:19 pm**

Got my 33 inner sill repair panel today

Posted: **Wed Mar 25, 2020 7:53 pm**

Looks like someone will be busy.

Posted: **Wed Mar 25, 2020 8:38 pm**

Funny. I’ve used the same panel to repair my floors, wings ,doors and everything in between

Posted: **Wed Mar 25, 2020 8:52 pm**

It's amazing how versatile they are for the price. Only problem is they don't fit quite as well as the originals so take a little fettling.

Posted: **Wed Apr 22, 2020 4:15 pm**

Well I've taken the sill covers off and it's not pretty

Posted: **Wed Apr 22, 2020 5:35 pm**

I'd check your jacking points too . Been there done that

Posted: **Wed Apr 22, 2020 6:43 pm**

It is rough

Posted: **Wed Apr 22, 2020 7:43 pm**

Jack it up using the back axle, or the front cross member.

Otherwise the jack keeps going up, but the car doesn't!

Posted: **Wed Apr 22, 2020 7:46 pm**

And bin the sill covers.
They might look sexy, but just trap crud and moisture.

Posted: **Wed Apr 22, 2020 7:46 pm**

And bin the sill covers.
They might look sexy, but just trap crud and moisture.

Posted: **Wed Apr 22, 2020 8:03 pm**

alfadave wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 22, 2020 7:43 pm
Jack it up using the back axle, or the front cross member.

Otherwise the jack keeps going up, but the car doesn't!

I'd never jack an alfa on its sills. On a sud or 33 I would never use the jacking points either. I learnt that lesson years ago

Posted: **Wed Apr 22, 2020 9:21 pm**

Must have been that pic of the jack under the sills that confused me!

Posted: **Wed Apr 22, 2020 9:39 pm**

alfadave wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 22, 2020 9:21 pm
Must have been that pic of the jack under the sills that confused me!

It's on the suspension connection point. If it was on the sill the jack would be in the car.

Posted: **Thu Apr 23, 2020 10:07 am**

Hope your floors are more solid than your sills!
Are you going to be able to repair it?

The MoT guys can't really inspect that with cill covers on.
They used to state that on my old Sud ti with a body kit.

Posted: **Thu Apr 23, 2020 11:01 am**

This is what I found when I took the Zender sill cover off my 'get it finished one day' Sprint Veloce. The space between the cover and sill was packed with a build up of damp road dirt.

Posted: **Thu Apr 23, 2020 3:11 pm**

Lovely kits but they done kill our cars . When your finished . Wax oil the hell out of it on the inside.
Plus checkout upol gravtex and raptor . For undersealing . I used gravtex . But I'm going to use raptor aswell .looks brilliant stuff

Posted: **Thu Apr 23, 2020 4:06 pm**

Today's progress

Posted: **Thu Apr 23, 2020 4:07 pm**

alfadave wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 23, 2020 10:07 am
Hope your floors are more solid than your sills!
Are you going to be able to repair it?

The MoT guys can't really inspect that with cill covers on.
They used to state that on my old Sud ti with a body kit.

The floor will need replacing along the sill edges

Posted: **Thu Apr 23, 2020 4:12 pm**

Johnboy wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 23, 2020 3:11 pm
Lovely kits but they done kill our cars . When your finished . Wax oil the hell out of it on the inside.
Plus checkout upol gravtex and raptor . For undersealing . I used gravtex . But I'm going to use raptor aswell .looks brilliant stuff

Do you have to use a gun to put it on?

Posted: **Thu Apr 23, 2020 5:04 pm**

Bloody hell, thats great progress.

Mix old engine oil with some grease, warm it up when the Mrs is out, pour it in through a wiring hole or wherever, park it up away from your house to drip!

Posted: **Thu Apr 23, 2020 5:14 pm**

I’m liking the look of that door gap brace. I’ve got to do the offside sill on my MX5 NA which will be at least as bad as the 33 and it’s 10 years younger (mx5s have a terrible sill habit) - where do you get them from and are they dear. I was just going to weld some tube across but I don’t have any tube yet and that looks much neater.

Posted: **Thu Apr 23, 2020 5:54 pm**

Andrew Fitton wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 23, 2020 5:14 pm
I’m liking the look of that door gap brace. I’ve got to do the offside sill on my MX5 NA which will be at least as bad as the 33 and it’s 10 years younger (mx5s have a terrible sill habit) - where do you get them from and are they dear. I was just going to weld some tube across but I don’t have any tube yet and that looks much neater.

HI Andrew. They are sealey door braces. You can get them from machine mart but they are not cheap

Posted: **Thu Apr 23, 2020 8:44 pm**

AY CARAMBA! I bet they don’t sell many

Posted: **Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:15 pm**

Really neat central sill repair sections, for something that will never be seen that's a real effort making them so neat, fair play to you

Posted: **Thu Apr 23, 2020 11:25 pm**

Lovely fabrication going on there mate.
Dinatrol is another product I would recommend for protecting inside your sills. Starts off quite liquidy so sprays in but also causes a good mist so gets everywhere inside your sill cavity . It then semi cures so clings and dribbles out of the seams so no moisture can get a starting point.

Posted: **Fri Apr 24, 2020 9:23 am**

Dinitrol is better than Waxoyl.
In very cold weather (remember that) I opened up the sills on a car some years ago, and found the Waxoyl had gone brittle and left gaps where moisture coud get in.
As Keith says, Dinitrol stays runnier.

Posted: **Fri Apr 24, 2020 10:07 am**

Alfastrut wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 23, 2020 4:12 pm

Johnboy wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 23, 2020 3:11 pm
Lovely kits but they done kill our cars . When your finished . Wax oil the hell out of it on the inside.
Plus checkout upol gravtex and raptor . For undersealing . I used gravtex . But I'm going to use raptor aswell .looks brilliant stuff
Do you have to use a gun to put it on?

Morning
You use schultz gun . But the raptor is 2k paint in a schultz bottle. You mix 3-1. But this can be put in gun with a 2mm tip. Then your have more control . I will definitely be using this stuff. But the gravitex is very good too

Posted: **Fri Apr 24, 2020 3:28 pm**

Todays progress

Posted: **Fri Apr 24, 2020 3:30 pm**

Kegsti66 wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 23, 2020 11:25 pm
Lovely fabrication going on there mate.
Dinatrol is another product I would recommend for protecting inside your sills. Starts off quite liquidy so sprays in but also causes a good mist so gets everywhere inside your sill cavity . It then semi cures so clings and dribbles out of the seams so no moisture can get a starting point.

I've been using dinatrol ML on the sud sills as its was recommended to me

Posted: **Fri Apr 24, 2020 7:51 pm**

Glad you've jacked it off the back axle! I'll sleep better now.

Whats the other side like?

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