The Mercury is transported to my garage in Umeå

The Mercury is transported from my dads garage in Norsjö where it´s been sitting sense i brought it to Sweden, about two years ago.

The destinated city where i live is Umeå.

The right rear fender has a really fucking huge dent on it.

I had nothing to do with the creation of that dent, that was well before my time.

The arrival in my garage

The motor has been removed from the car sense it blew up, i shot a piston right through the engine block

A crate is delivered!

I stumbled over a FE390 motor that has been rebuilt 1987, it´s been sitting in that crate ever sense..

Unfortunately the motor has been repainted red instead of the characteristic blue paint, but who the hell gives a damn.

(In the background you can see my Volvo C202 terrain vehicle allso called Valpen by the Swedish army.)

The motor is taken apart and inspected (After all, it´s been sitting in a box for over twenty years.)

I had to send one cylinder head to the workshop when one valve was rusted shut.

Back to my dads place in Norsjö again to pick up the old blown up motor, i needed some spare parts from it. (Alternator, Powersteering pump, Manifold, Engine mounts, etc.

The dent.

It was time to lay my hands on that dent on the rear fender

After pretty much hammering, pulling, pushing, cutting and welding, the fender started to take shape.

And after a while it actually turned out quite nice.

Filler and primer

A little Zink primer, Fiberglas filler, P100 filler and some more primer, and the fender looks allmost like nothing ever happend to it.

RUST!!!

After lettin the rotating wire brush loose on the Merc i realized that i had to dedicate many hours in the future to fixing rust...

Oh that rust!

I brought out the angle grinder with a cutting blade and started cutting out the rusty sheet, then i welded good sheet metall in place that i by the way took from a Mercedes hood that i picked up at the local scrapyard.

The left rear fender gets a little makeover.

Body work

There where lots of surface rust and dents here and there that had to be fixed.

The right front fender gets fixed

The fender was dismounted and the dents where fixed with simple methods.

Rust Rust Rust

Ouch!! God damn thats looking bad! (this is the right inner fender, where the battery sits.)

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