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hi im at the stage where i have to do body repairs and need to remove both sills, but am struggleing getting them off any hints will be apreceated thanks mike

Angle grinder! Stick it in just below the top lip, but skip the ends and middle bit where the jacking point is/should be. Get them with a chisel or shears. Then just fold it down and hack the rest off, then tidy it up with grinding disks and flap wheels. Piece of cake.

Plenty of pic's half way down this:

http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.p...id=259072&fr=75

Yep just as apbellamy says. I use a 1mm cutting disc on my grinder and cut just under the sill lip. Then bend this back and use a sharp chisel top break the spot weld that hold it to the floorpan. Simple.

got one side sort of off but were the sill meets door step how do you seperate them bits?

and do i have to brace the car in any way if im also changeing the inner sill and floorpan?

Thin the bits that are left behind with the grinder then peal them of with a pair of pliers, like you're opening a tin of spam.

If you are taking all the floors out, then brace in both directions

ohh i never thought of peeling it like that i was trying to chisle it off but was bending the top lip! and yeah all the floors, now i have the sill off i recon its best just to get one of them full floors that have ths sill atached on it already! any one know of the best place to get them from? thanks mike

i find these work a treat for general grinding,

whats that mini13?

doh!

these...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/12-PACK-115MM-4-1-2-...=item3a5a01db8e

I use ordinary grinding disks to get the majority of (as they are cheap), then clean it up with a flap wheel.

I'm getting to the point where I need 3 grinders to save me time swapping the tools accross

dose anyone know were i can get a whole floor pan with the outer sill atached?

I've only ever seen half floors (full length but left side or right side halves) with sills pre-attached.

But why ???

If you have so much welding to do that you need to weld a complete floor in, the extra work in welding the outer sills to the floor is small - and floor sections and sills seperately are a lot cheaper.

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

Just glue another one over the top and underseal lol! (waiting for Norwegian rant!)

On 5th Sep, 2011 Vegard said:
I stand corrected. You should know

Is that how your racecar is done Scruffy ? :)








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Edited by miniminor63 on 28th Jun, 2010.

The inner sill has gone rusty most of the way along and just want to get it done propley first time and the front footwells arnt rusty they are just dented were someone jacked it up! Ohh and I was on about the full lenght half floors! Thanks mike

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

Have you got dsn's website mate?

Edited by Rod S on 28th Jun, 2010.

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

Hmm they seem quite reasonable! What is the panel fitment like Rod?

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Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???