Well it was a longer break than I thought it would be, I have been off work for three weeks now but every time I look in the garage I just couldn't be arsed
oddly enough it was my little one that made me get back to it, shes only two and she stuck a Dunlop sticker on one of the pile of wheels in the back garden and weirdly that rekindled my interest in the S body!!
I started to make the panels for the rear corner and went to tack them in to place ready to fully weld in and had major blow through issues, the metal was clean but pitted quite badly.
once I cut the tacks out I cut more bad steel away until I reached somewhere i knew would be good, took quite a lot out in the end but it makes access easier and this area will be covered by over-fenders and spats anyway.
used my handy angle finder and bent up a new piece to fit the enlarged hole, I left a 10 mm overlap all round that will help stop blow through by acting like a bit of a heat sink
And then welded it in. a bit rough but havent welded in nearly a month!!
Then I made up the curvy bit of the wheel arch. pretty simple curved it over a t dolly with a tinmans mallet and massaged by hand to fit.
I welded it in along the base and about half way up the sides, have stopped for the day though but have all day tomorrow to get it done,
I really want to be bolting on the sub frames and wheels by the end of next week to have a rolling chassis (body jig for sale soon!!)