The pistons where stuck in the calipers, but after a little pursuation I got them out.
Then clean it all up to prep for painting. The bolts, clips, pistons and brake pad pins will go with the second batch to be zinc plated. The seals are all pretty much shot, so ordered a new kit.
As I am finished with largely removing of all the tectyl and sanding down the car (including doors, trunk and hood lid) so time to take it to the bodyshop.
Doors, trunk and hood lid sanded down to bare metal.
Door skin of both doors are pretty much banged up, so I got some NOS door panel skins.
I also found 2 new panels to repair the rust in the rear fender in front of the rear wheels.
As I said in a previous post, the upper panel on the nose is also damaged so I got a good 2nd hand replacement part.
Furthermore there are 2 more damages which will probably need new panels, so I’m still looking replacement panels for this. Damage on the LH FWD side and RH fender:
The floorpanels where the last parts where I had to remove some tectyl, so from now on no more scraping.
Put the car on a trailer
And dropped it off at the bodyshop.
The right door, had filler and has a shallow dent in the middle of the panel
The left door, had loads of filler and damage
Also the trunk and bonnet are almost finished, finally some parts without damage
Sanding the car is making progress, but found damages below the filler.
On the nose in the area below the emblem buckled and dented, pretty bad so I got an replacement part
The right side
So mostly banged up metal, no rust. There is some rust at the bottom corner of the aft fenders in front of the rear wheels so this will probably mean some cutting and replacing panels.
And above the rear wheels
Damages at the right front fender
A poorly repaired hole in the door sill
Sanding away 6 layers of paint
More surprises
Damage on the the front of the fender
Some damage at the rear upper wing
The rear looks pretty OK, just some minor dents
All in all I’m feeling not so lucky. On the other hand, it’s a 48 year old car so it had to have some hidden damages. As I said most damages do not have rust, but they have to be attended to.
I came across this advertisement of Volvo, pretty funny advertising by Volvo.
While sanding down the car the dust gives a nice effect with the sunlight.
Recently the guy who is going to do the sheet metal work and welding came by to look the car overr. I will sand down the car to bare metal as much as possible and in a couple of weeks I will bring the car over to him. First thing then is sand blasting andthen he he will start with the repair off all the bad spots and do some modifications. Unfortunately he allready could see some bad rusty spots of which I thought would be not much of a problem, so there will be some major cutting and welding.
Sanding down the filler creates a lot of dust, and discoveries of more hidden damages.
Also did some interior work. I glued the two patches of leather (which I painted) on the second seat bottom frame, quite a time consuming job. Now wait for the glue to dry and I can put the seats completely back together. Possibly I will paint another layer of black leatherpaint on the patches, because they got damaged during the gluing.
Volvo 1800S 1967 #23424 