Yeeha, it`s not so easy to close a gape with the migwelder, I know this, but if I had the choice and the money, I would give my car in your hands! Nice job, --- again! Please give us more Alfa Romeo vids, thank you you for your work! Schöne Grüße aus NRW
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Danke fürs Feedback, Dirk! Alfa videos galore once the Giulia is back on the lift, ie September. There are also “Is It Any Good” projects with Alfa’s.
@georgeryan6033 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed this as much as the 911 series..Well done
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, George. I’m going to evaluate a 911 buy in some days. Let’s see, maybe that will be next but one project.
@stevewuertz35983 жыл бұрын
A genuine masterclass in restoring an Alfa the correct way. Extra points to taking the time to document the materials/supplies used. Those magnets are a treasure. I bought a dozen-very handy. Thanks again. This is up there with your door restoration series. Well done
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Steve.
@gearhead98283 жыл бұрын
Best car restoration channel on KZbin, by far! Full stop. 👍👍👍
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
😊
@rezaq13 жыл бұрын
My favourite channel on KZbin now. I love it. Sir, you are an artist and a gentlemen. God bless.
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, my friend. Please recommend it to your friends.
@uniqueaustraliandestinatio13523 жыл бұрын
I suspect that many hours were devoted to this job, far more than shown here. Curing rust in Alfa is beyond most mortals, great job!
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Man, you suspect that right. I invoiced 92 hours.
@hilbilchillbil3 жыл бұрын
Great to have you back 👍
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Paul. This one was as mighty an effort as two of normal length.
@harmdegraaf5579 Жыл бұрын
What a craftmanship, respect!
@GreasyFingers Жыл бұрын
Thanks, Harm.
@alexbrown19952 жыл бұрын
Beautiful to watch a master at work. I'm amazed you don't have more subscribers - more pink paint, perhaps? Thanks to Jethro for pointing your channel out. I've been travelling around the world tonight. Cheers from Down Under.
@GreasyFingers2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, this KZbin algorithm is full of surprises. But one thing is sure: more pink is the solution. Thanks, Jethro!
@CH-pv2rz2 жыл бұрын
Awesome work! And a Great Video to boot. You have some serious skillz…
@GreasyFingers2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, mate!
@davidevolpe6282 Жыл бұрын
Ti porterei tranquillamente la mia! Bravissimo
@GreasyFingers Жыл бұрын
Grazie, Davide. Ti aspetto … 😄
@seancain73053 жыл бұрын
Great job there... your friend is a lucky man :-).
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Sean. He’s more the drive-it-till-it-falls-apart kind of classic owner, not so much the maintenance and restore guy. 🤨 Education started …
@seancain73053 жыл бұрын
@@GreasyFingers Haha... well we are all on the education curve :-). I had a 105 step nose (1,6 GT Veloce) in my teens after a lot of saving, but a combo of limited spare in those days & lack of skills meant the rust (filler) beat me, oh well. BTW, just back from Italy hols & visited Arese Alfa Museum - fantastic !
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
@@seancain7305 Yeah, the Arese museum is very much worth a visit. I went there a couple of weeks after its opening in 2015.
@SuperWestie013 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of a surgeon performing a lifesaving operation, thank you for all of the time and effort you have put into this project!
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, David. Very welcome.
@EliteRock3 жыл бұрын
It's sad to know that so many well-loved and seemingly sound 105's are hiding this intrinsic problem at the base of their pillars. That said, the monocoques are extremely stiff largely thanks to the over-engineering of that sill and pillar, but the rust-traps an unfortunate consequence of that over-engineering (all those juxtaposed panels/pressings). Thanks for documenting the work, very much enjoyed it.
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Hey! You really hit the nail to the head. The pillar bases’ design is very much focussed on strength and totally neglects the corrosion aspect. In hindsight it’s all massively oversized as proofed by thousands of cars out there that are doing fine with only the inner sill supporting the structure and all the rest rusted away. That said, a yearly shower with some high viscosity rust protection will keep it nice and tidy for a long time.
@EliteRock3 жыл бұрын
@@GreasyFingers _"In hindsight it’s all massively oversized as proofed by thousands of cars out there that are doing fine with only the inner sill supporting the structure and all the rest rusted away. "_ I shouldn't laugh, but I did. I think that rigidity was also why they made such good racers. I should say - my late dad owned nothing but 105's from 1971 (Miini Coopers and Cooper S's before that) until he died in 2015, starting with a Giulia Super (when he still had to transport kids), GTJ's/GTV's after that. He was shunted while stationary in his _very_ nice '75 GTV-2000 in the late 90's by a woman in a big BMW (flip-flops wedged in the pedals) and she wrote off the GTV and the two cars in front - and here's the thing; as it happens one of the emergency service guys actually remarked on how little the cabin had deformed considering the general mayhem. BTW, although I love those 105's, I never owned one, gravitated to SAAB's (pre-GM of course).
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, and you can just remove the roof and it’s still stable enough! QED Spider.
@peaktraveller3 жыл бұрын
Nice work as always on a beautiful Alfa.
@heikegerl1863 жыл бұрын
Great work
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@jamesdills67203 жыл бұрын
Simply awesome.. Great cinematography and detail of work!
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, James. I have a drone now. 😊
@anthonygillesse72423 жыл бұрын
So nice to see quality work, the Alfa’s are so well worth it🇨🇦
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
They certainly are!
@krismcleod2723 жыл бұрын
Great stuff 👍🙂
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Kris.
@Mr10usdad2 жыл бұрын
impressive work!
@GreasyFingers2 жыл бұрын
Thanks again!
@patrickforray89582 жыл бұрын
Bravo Maestro!!!
@GreasyFingers2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Patrick!
@kingofschlager3 жыл бұрын
Einfach nur grandios! Danke, Johannes!
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Gern. 😌
@hugogreen49163 жыл бұрын
Love the pink. Reminds me of the rsr that I lusted after when I was at university. It was going for gbp 6,500 ( weep) - to put that price into context my first 105 - a 5 year old 1976 1600 GT Junior, acquired less than a year later cost GBP 1,500. Amazingly - given the rust on my bertone at the time, last time I checked, my first alfa was still on the road!
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Isn’t it astonishing to see this never ending price increase over the years? In the late eighties, the late nineties, right before the financial crisis … I always thought that it’s too late to buy. Truth is: a year or two and two and prices started climbing again.
@hannulahti86053 жыл бұрын
Nice video again , details and commentary thanks
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Hannu.
@RestorationApprentice3 жыл бұрын
Love the video, sill turned out great!
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Thanks again. I’m quite happy with it too.
@Abandon7d2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful work! This confirms me wanting to have a look inside my GT's sills. Thank you.
@GreasyFingers2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Looking behind the covers of the front wheel houses will already tell you much about the work ahead. Hope it’s not too bad!
@1st_Gen_Life3 жыл бұрын
Your attention to detail is amazing. And you camera angles and commentary are really good also. Nice work 👍
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Aariyan!
@rbotha013 жыл бұрын
Beautiful car bud!
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Reinhardt!
@freakboy37863 жыл бұрын
Awesome work:)) really good camera angels. Keep on grinding
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
I’ll do!
@Bruceanddenise3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic work! Glad to have found your channel! Thanks to @Jethro Bronner.
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Bruce & welcome!
@laurentiuprisacariu99053 жыл бұрын
these videos will be good send for next year when I will buy my own Giulia GT :):):):)
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Glad you find them helpful, Laurentiu. Fingers crossed for your project.
@raisingjunior63893 жыл бұрын
Great job on a really good looking car. I forgot how much work replacing the sill is! One small suggestion is to remove the magnets from the panel when they're not needed, I find a magnetized panel is more difficult to weld
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Geoffrey. I wasn’t aware about the magnetic effect on welding. I’m much excited to understand this. I have to find out more …
@raisingjunior63893 жыл бұрын
@@GreasyFingers I have 2 big arrow shaped magnets and when I weld close to them there welding seems to have an uneven pulse, give it a try welding with and without them, maybe they are small enough to have a neglible effect
@ncfatcyclist2 жыл бұрын
Wow 🤩
@Matteo_Licata3 жыл бұрын
It's kind of soothing to watch you painstakingly weld on classic Alfas :) I must agree with you that the 105-series sill design is quite poor... Even the best engineers get it wrong, sometimes!
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it’s poor, but about as poor as many others of the day. The GT’s design is only second generation of self-supporting bodies and the cross one needs to carry when restoring Porsche’s is about as heavy. I have an idea about zinc plating the GT sill which would much improve the situation but that’s a story for another day (as someone I know likes to express).
@bertone833 жыл бұрын
Wow, 8 layers of paint including primer... Its crazy how many layers of paint accumulate over the decades. On my Spider I had an incredible average paint thickness of about 1-1.5 mm.
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it was quite a surprise to the owner. Did you remove the paint?
@bertone833 жыл бұрын
@@GreasyFingers Yes, I did since I discovered that many parts of the paint were underrusted, so I just had to. And of course also because I am quite a perfectionist as well ;)
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
That is very good to hear. One more Alfa saved in the hands of a perfectionist!
@kellymorgan17153 жыл бұрын
Just a little sheet metal welders tip. Sand your nozzle back a bit to reveal your contactor tip.Then lower your amps to comensate. ?& gives you better veiwing? I work with stainless & mild steel sheet. Give it a try?
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Many thanks, Kelly. Will definitely try …
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Thinking about what you said … How you mean stainless and mild steel?
@kellymorgan17153 жыл бұрын
@@GreasyFingers on a wire feed macmine if you expose a a bit of the contact tip the machine runs better at low voltage.
@torwereen74812 жыл бұрын
What type of spray gun are you using? Have seen it in a few of your episodes. Realize that when I now are in the phase of closing my sill repair (including also the middle sill, and parts of the floor + A and B pillar....) I will use a 0.8 mm for the first part, then I will go with my normal AirGunsa. Grateful for information here. Tor
@GreasyFingers2 жыл бұрын
Hi Tor. For workshop paint jobs I use an Anest Iwata LPH80. I absolute love it, it’s definitely a recommendation.
@S0LlDSNAKE14 күн бұрын
Nice work ! What's your welder's reference ? My dad own a 73 Giulia Coupe Bertone, the body need a deep job... But too expansive to do in France (In the other hand, I think it's the same anywhere else...). So, we plain to do only a refresh on the transmission, suspensions, brakes, axles... We'll deal with the corrosion points that we'll see... but only on surface, to avoid rust expansion... We'll see! Thanks, it's motivating !
@GreasyFingers12 күн бұрын
Thanks for commenting, mate. Yeah, I think proper body work costs about the same everywhere and yes, it’s expensive. Unless you bring her over to Africa, but that has its pitfalls too. I own a disassembled GT myself and I hope I’ll be able to start working on her soon.
@armourpiercer2 жыл бұрын
👍👍
@pasquatocuttingmachines-sh323911 ай бұрын
Which kind of Brunox did you spray before the 2 layer of Expo you? I’m doing the same job on my Gt junior 1300.
@GreasyFingers11 ай бұрын
Just the normal stuff, the epox primer rust converter.
@jameshanoomansing14422 жыл бұрын
just the best
@psk57463 жыл бұрын
Curious why this was done when there did not appear to be a rust issue in the first place. Were areas of the sill rusty that you did not film? Also you don't need to drill holes in the sill to get wax inside the sill, they have drain openings or you can do what I've done to my car drill holes underneath the stainless door sill trim. But yes drilling holes is what was done when these cars were rust proofed by agents when new
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
I recommend to watch Part 1.
@psk57463 жыл бұрын
@@GreasyFingers will do. Btw forgot to say very nice job!!
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@joehounsham80102 жыл бұрын
Which Brunox product do you use Johannes?
@GreasyFingers2 жыл бұрын
Hey, Joe. I use their standard product: rust converter embedded in epoxy primer.
@jimmygrant32123 жыл бұрын
I noticed the bigger sill gap on my car when the panels were replaced, not much you can do with a lot more work. But better than than just filling in the seam.
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, filling is a no-go. At the beginning I was much upset about the size of the gab, but now that I see the car back on the road, I have to say it looks perfectly okay.
@douglasmccowen272 жыл бұрын
Could you please let me know what is the brand/model of movable hydraulic lift you show in this video?
@GreasyFingers2 жыл бұрын
Hi Douglas. That’s a Twin Busch TW125M.
@drblast2 жыл бұрын
Ich Liebe die farbe Pink
@GreasyFingers2 жыл бұрын
😆
@richardmcallister47412 жыл бұрын
It's kind of difficult for me to understand what motivates people to 👎🏻 these films. If you're one of those who do, please let me know.
@lolman772 жыл бұрын
Great videos, really well edited. I don't understand why you don't have more subscribers! I am pretty jealous when I see you weld like that, with ease and accuracy. My MIG hates me and we never work well together... Honest question from a learner : Brunox vs Phosphoric acid? I use the later whenever I can. I love that it protects healthy metal and attacks rust while leaving a passive layer on top. But I never tried Brunox. Another question : I personally use Zinc spray (like your Inox spray) to weld through, but also anywhere where there is a sandwich of metal, and even in cavities which can't be reached after. Anything wrong with that in your opinion?
@GreasyFingers2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, mate! Actually I don’t understand it either. 🤓 Regarding your toxic MIG-relationship: I literally spent a weekend with test panels before I first went over to the car and the first project was naked horror. The second and third were kind of okayish, then the fun began. I think you just have to go through that valley before the sun begins to shine. I have zero experience with phosphoric acid. Brunox is okay, if rust is just superficial. But if it’s superficial, it’s very convenient. Zinc evaporates at already 900 degrees, I don’t think it really works as a weld through primer. When welding is not involved I more trust in epoxy primer as it keeps oxygen away very well. I don’t know whether zinc spray does that too.
@lolman772 жыл бұрын
@@GreasyFingers Clearly, welding is one of those things were experience is the key. Mine is limited to 10h MAX. Combined with trying to weld on super thin metal, it's terrible :( I'll give Brunox a go. Sounds interesting! The zinc spray I am using is purely meant for weld through primer, at a welder store. I don't know if it's a special mixture that would hold better..? Maybe that's why they recommend to put it before and then again on the welds... I'll search for inox spray and will compare. So much stuff to learn in welding, jesus!
@GreasyFingers2 жыл бұрын
Ahhh, that’s why this kind of “consulting” over the web is so treacherous. Sorry, if it’s a dedicated weld through primer you are using, I’m sure it has some clever stuff in it to make it work. Brunox is really cool because it converts the rust and at the same time it’s a normal epoxy primer. But like all products it has its limitations and I guess it’s not very good in penetrating thicker layers of rust. When in doubt, apply, sand off, see what rust was left below and apply again.
@clivematthew-wilson24913 жыл бұрын
Water gets trapped in the front sill through places such as the jacking point, so why not simply block these points off?
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
That’s easy to say, but it would mean doing a redesign of the whole area.
@clivematthew-wilson24913 жыл бұрын
@@GreasyFingers Not really. You could just seal all the gaps with seam sealer.
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
@@clivematthew-wilson2491 You’re kidding me, do you? 😉
@clivematthew-wilson24913 жыл бұрын
@@GreasyFingers My classic car used to have trafficators, the indicators that stick out like wings. They're very unreliable and other motorists don't notice them, so they're dangerous. Also, water gets in through the slot for the trafficators and rusts out the sills. So I took the trafficators out and welded up the slot where they lived. It was easy and it's now impossible to see they were ever there. You could do the same with the Alfa. Or, you could just block up the places where water gets in.
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
I see where you’re going, Clive. The Alfa 105 sills are designed as a staple of panels that meet each other under acute angles. These panels are cut open to let the jacking point connect to the A and C pillar. You can see models of this in my video corrosion protection of classic 911’s. Body sealant is a good thing, I’m using it a lot, but it requires sealing surfaces to attach too and in this design there are none. I’ve never seen anyone trying to seal this all up, and I guess if you’d follow up a bit on the topic you’d come to the same conclusion. I think the most promising way to protect the sills would be to galvanise them. I think I’m going to follow this route in my next project.
@loosepatrick64932 жыл бұрын
Moser liesl jawoi 👌🏻👍🏻😜
@GreasyFingers2 жыл бұрын
Hawedere. D‘Liesl?
@loosepatrick64932 жыл бұрын
Eier Bier, was ihr getrunken habts 😉
@willydaunting14622 жыл бұрын
Pink? Pink? No! No! Nein! Nein! The Alfa gods will be angry
@GreasyFingers2 жыл бұрын
😆😆 But what, if it’s a goddess? After all it’s LA macchina.
@davidzogas59382 жыл бұрын
If you would come to Canada and set up shop I would buy buy an old Porsche.
@GreasyFingers2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, David. There’s no other way of saying it: I’m going to come to Canada in less than two weeks.
@trroland1248 Жыл бұрын
🩸 Surgery! 😢
@GreasyFingers Жыл бұрын
Yeah, patient survived!
@trroland12483 жыл бұрын
Too traumatic to watch.
@GreasyFingers3 жыл бұрын
I recommend an active approach to deal with traumatic experiences. 😁
@andygtv2 жыл бұрын
Great work
@GreasyFingers2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, mate. I very much like your giallo ocra GTV. I’ve just bought one of the same kind and year myself.