Soup's Samurai

[Soup]

Here are the really nasty rusted out spots on my Samurai, this project is made extra fun by the fact that I have absolutely no ****ing clue what I'm doing. I'm basically going by the haynes manual for everything, so the body work is going to be interesting, I have an electric arc welder so It shouldn't be too hard, unless I kill myself.



Driver's side footwell

Passenger's side footwell

I took the valve cover off so I could strip the paint off of it, what can I use to clean the insides? can I reuse the gasket or do I need to get a new one?

[HKSevo]

good luck on this


im so glad we have no snow at my house, our cars would be fawked

[97talon]

Post pics up after you weld so I can laugh at you .

[Soup]

It will be really really ugly, I decided to try it out on my mom's gazing ball stand (just in case she needed stronger welds to hold a polar bear with it or something) and she got mad at me for it.

[HKSevo]

^hahahahahahahahaha

[97talon]

Hahaha. Welding is an art.

[Soup]

It's fun as hell, every time I think about it I want to go do it.

[97talon]

I've seen enough welds to last forever, and I still have 30 years to go..

[Traction Issuez]

arc welder might be a little much for sheet metal, even more so when you don't know what your doing. but for shits and giggles, if your mom was pissed about your practice welds on her gazing ball thing, weld her doors shut on her car, she will forget about the gazing ball.

[97talon]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

[Soup]

actually at the time I didn't need to, she had a ford escape and the passenger door got stuck shut because it was a P.O.S.

[97talon]

It's probably rusted shut

[Marek]

You shouldnt re-use the same gasket, specially for the ridiculous cost of it.
If you want to clean the inside nice and clean, let it sink in gasoline but in a closed container so the vapors dont go!

Nice to see people undertake projects and take care of their rides! Did you notice Haynes tells you to unplug the battery before you do ANYTHING on the car??

If you want to clean the engine bay nicely, use some "SIMPLE GREEN" but mix it with some warm water, spray it all down, use a kitchen brush and scrub that sucker! All the fugly gunk will flex and you'll be happy as simple green did 70% of the werk


good luck, and keep us posted!

[rydinturbo]

Originally Posted by 97talon

Hahaha. Welding is an art.

x2 u defently need practice andx some experience before u got wwelding shit on cars

[Soup]

Anything cheeper than gasoline I can soak the valve cover in? Would acetone work? I want to repaint it this weekend anyway.