Personally I would as it will never get any easier to do than it is now, but you may get away with it, the thing is it may already be partially cracked underneath and you just can't tell. Personally, I think it would be a sensible precaution as it's such an easy job to do with all the room you have to work with at the moment.

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Doing a cracking job there. Fair play

carl

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I had a bit of a setback.
I got everything lined up perfectly and started welding it up.
Checked it a few times it was all nice.
I then had to take the wing & slam panel off to get at it.
When I offered the stuff back up, the front end of the N/S chassis leg had pulled in towards the centre of the car by about 6mm.
I knew it was going to pull and thought I had allowed for it.
Obviously didn't allow enough
I know that is not a massive ammount, but the whole point of the job was to sort out the chassis leg alignment.
What I needed was to push the chassis leg outwards whilst the top slam panel mount and bottom rad crossmember remained in the same place.
some kind of jig for me to jack against.


I needed a type of 'strut brace' that went between the slam panel mounts




That also secured to the bottom near the rad crossmember




With something to jack against




That was strong enough




To take the load applied by the screw jack




It may well end up the right shape when it is done after all.

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Make tea, not war.

If it ain't broke......fix it until it is.

The pressure is on now mate, Mrs Tea is losing her sense of humour about the house being full of car bits.

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Make tea, not war.

If it ain't broke......fix it until it is.

I was hoping to get all the welding over and done with today.


I put on the new N/S front bit.




I started drilling out the welds on the O/S.




To be honest, the O/S was only a little bit bent and it would probably have been easy enough to straighten out.
The part was cheap enough though.
Infact, after ten years of buying Porshe parts most things seem to be cheap, and whilst you are in there......
Sadly that is about as far as I got, it pi55ed down for the rest of the day

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Make tea, not war.

If it ain't broke......fix it until it is.

Hey quick question. I might have missed the point here, but why didnt you just buy a 306 that was straight and true?

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Teaboy you are a true legend with the dedication and skill you are showing in this build.

You deserve a cuppa!

you dont hang about do you!
i know where to go to get the welding done on my rear turrets now

keep up the good work
oh enjoy your brew

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I have done a bit more.


I put the holes back in the chassis leg, can't remember what they are for




replaced a couple of snapped studs, this one for the harness trunking and one on the other side for the washer bottle.

Drilled them out & tapped the hole



Then cut the head off a 6mm bolt which I can screw into the hole and plug weld from the back.




The past few days I have given it a good going over with deox gel then hydrate 80.
I thought I better get a bit of paint on to protect it so I have put on some zinc phosphate primer.





It wants another coat then flatting off for a bit of black.

I picked up a better slam panel yesterday, so I dropped that off at the powdercoaters today.
It should be done early next week.

If it is dry, I might be able to get a bit more done tomorrow.
I want this on the road soon, been in bits too long now.
Next time I am getting a straight one.

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If it ain't broke......fix it until it is.

Have to say you have done a great job and attention to detail is second to none, the holes you have put back in are to secure the airbox.

Carl

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MOT station now open, tests £35 with a free retest.
Recovery available with a recovery unit, for those not so local jobs

Also offer the loan of a free courtesy car 306 dturbo

I welded them holes up when I did the rallye. As for your job your name says it all.

Carl

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C.G.Cars of Leicester, Peugeot/Citroen/Renault specialist Tel: 01162 624498/07799 405184 WWW.CGCARSLEICESTER.CO.UK
36 narborough road south, Leicester LE3 2fn

MOT station now open, tests £35 with a free retest.
Recovery available with a recovery unit, for those not so local jobs

Also offer the loan of a free courtesy car 306 dturbo

Got my slam panel back from the powder coaters today.


Had to stick it on to see what it looked like.




Done satin black.




I could do with a new one of those Total stickers to go on it.
Can you get them anywhere?

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