Took some time this past Monday to cut back on the old paint a bit. The difference is amazing and I had not realised just how dull the paint had become, it's now quite a shade darker!

Finally had a good reason to buy some high temp filament for my 3D printer. The plastic/fibre bushing that sits between the intake and the carburetor on the little Yamaha was broken badly enough that the

With everything having a generous, dry coat of paint, I put seam sealer along all the edges that needed it, similar to how the factory had it. I also cut out the rust on the door frame just under the scuttle,

With the rust cut out and surrounding metal treated, I got to work welding in ptches of metal. I learnt my lesson on the previous side, where I had tried to create one large piece and weld it in in one

Spurred on by the feeling of accomplishment of finishing up the left hand side door frame I moved to the right hand side, starting with the scuttle. From the outset I could tell there would be more rust,

With the scuttle welded back in place I could proceed with closing up all the last of the places where I had cut rust out around the door frame. First a piece was cut to shape and bent to close up just

After quite a long time, my last post was in May, I got to closing up the scuttle panel in December of 2024. I made use of plastic tile levellers to hold the piece I had cut out ages ago in place. While

My hair brained scheme to route whatever water leaks behind the windscreen rubber out may work, or not, time will tell. I am definitely not ready to solder plumbing connections but this works ok enough.

After much back and forth, test fitting and finally some paint, the bottom has a decent coat on, I managed to get something welded in place. I still had to tweak the part a bit so that the part of the

I had some small details to finish before welding in the patch under the windscreen cowl. There was a tiny hole to patch and I marked the places where the holes should go to spot weld the part on to the

As is probably expected the part I cut out warped a bit and does not fit back in position perfectly. I picked up some of these, they are meant for leveling tiles, i figure that, if I don't weld too close

With the rough shape I started refining it until finally I could get the piece I cut out to fit over it. It took quite a bit of back and forth, offering the two pieces up, cutting, then bending, repeated

I pondered a long on time on how to get started with this piece. Eventually I just took the bits I had cut out and used them as a guide and cut a section of plate to match, a bit oversized. I then bent

Not an lot of change visually but I did spent quite some time welding in thin strips to replace the rusted edges that I had cut off / back to get to clean metal. This is just to restore the length in

Cutting out rust from the inner layer meant I could now see through and into the cab... I chased down the last bit of rust into the engine bay as well and made up a tiny sliver of a patch and welded it

I tried cutting away the least amount of metal, so that replacing it would be somewhat simple, unfortunately I found more rust after I cut the first piece out, so I cut some more out, until it was only

It took a while but I finally managed to gather up the courage to cut a large hole in what, on the surface, looks to be good steel. It's actually not as bad as I expected but I will still have to cut out

It was quite obvious that there was rust on the edge of the windshield, so I cut out a small section to see what I might have to deal with. After a lot of procrastination I cut a small plate of steel and

The more I scratch the more rust I find, there is nothing to do but to cut it out. This time it is right at the top of the drivers side door pillar by the upper door hinge mounting. I cut out as small

Using the template made from masking tape before, I cut out a piece of metal plat and tried to figure out how to get it to fit the shape, it's not obvious from the photos but there are quite a few curves