Newly acquired MK2 Golf cl with 72000 miles genuine unmolested example ebay find. Brought this project a few days ago and im happy to say welding wise it dont need alot few bits here and there, All solid in usual MK2 golf rot spots. First pics from ebay add. Photo found on google images
Inside pics again dirty but rust free. Removed a few bits and started giving the inside a bath, no after pics.
Removed remains of old front wings and started removal of waxoil. First bit of rust, reckon it might clean up. Internal floor flooded in waxoil but its certainly done a good job on this shell. Started removing factory soundproofing, it has gone brittle anyway so will just use some silent coat.
Managed to get a few hours on the golf again today, I got a bit done. Photo's of rear boot space after it was cleaned and dry. Removed sound proofing from drivers side floor pans, It seemed alot harder this side. Just needs residue cleaning off with some petrol. Started removing factory underseal.
Rot found so far, ive gone round the mk2 with a screwdriver and these were the only soft spots in the factory underseal. Worst of the rot is the battery tray think this might be down to battery leak which in turn took the paint of this area. Bit of surface on drivers inner chassis leg, this should clean up.
The red shell has now gone to it new owner. Ive managed to get the silver golf in garage and hopefully i can crack on in the evening a bit now. Engine removed.
A bit More progress, It's a bit slow at the moment. Ive found no more rot so far, shell seems to good to be true. Stripped rubber undercoat passenger front inner arch. Bare metaled passenger front inner arch. Stripped more parts from the engine bay and started the task of removing all the factory seam sealer. Snow in garage, came in under the door.
Front subframe removed all the bolts holding It up undone nicely. Passenger front inner wing had rubber undercoat removed and back to bare metal. More rubber undercoat removal in the engine bay front bulkhead area.
Few more hours spent on the Golf. Removed gear linkage, exhaust down pipe and removed some more rubber undercoat. Passenger front jacking point rot free. Removed rotten battery tray. New panel tested in place, seems to fit ok.
Today's work, rubbed down both front Inner wings for epoxy primer. Sanded with 80 grit and panel wiped about 10 times hopefully the epoxy primer will stick. Passenger front inner wing after epoxy. Drivers front inner wing after epoxy.
Back on the golf again been pretty busy the last few weeks with other stuff, Sandblasted and epoxy primed half the engine bay, the good side. After some epoxy primer to seal the steel.
Finished removing the last bit of vw sealer from the passenger main floor pan. Sandblasted some of rust round the jacking point stump, was going to remove it but it seems to have cleaned up well. Washed the whole floor pan down with panel wipe, scuff pad and plenty of blue roll. Managed to get some epoxy primer on.
So today i started stripping the vw sealer from the drivers side main floor.pan. Before Jacking point stump this side was suspect so i decided to remove to be on the safe side. Removed Cleaned rust up abit, seems solid enough, not really sure whether I will weld a patch In.
Drivers side main floor pan, pics In bare metal. Started tunnel, hopefully have it all In epoxy primer tomorrow.
Today i finished getting the tunnel to bare metal ready for epoxy primer. Sandblasted jacking point stump area, it will need a patch as blasting has created some pinholes. Epoxy primed the drivers main floor and tunnel. This week im going to try get the new battery tray welded. My shoulders and arms hurt abit right now.
Battery tray welded in, just need to finish a small repair at back of tray and grind the lot down. Penetration on Inner wing. Plug welds along chassis rail. Ground these down and finished, sandblaster will sort the rest.
Done a few hours this morning, got the battery tray finished. Plug welds all grind'ed down. Chassis rail close panel cut out ready for repair. I had a piece of old chassis that came with the car so cut out what I needed. No welding pics as I just got on with It. I will more than likely give it a light skim of filler to finish.
Had a few hours on the golf today but couldn't really get motivated. Had a play with some seam sealer, brushed it on looked pants so of it came. I then masked up a test area then thinned some pu sealer and sprayed It, results below. Im not sure if it looks over the top.
