48yr FHC West Coast Sills Probed

[politeperson]

I was going to post this a while ago but forgot.

I had a look in my sills with a boroscope/endoscope last month.

The car appears rust free, with no rot evident, but you can never tell till you get inside can you?




Certainly when I poked around inside the bulkhead void it looked good.

I purchased on of these camera from ebay for £15 and strapped it to some brake pipe.






I drilled a 10.5mm hole and went for it.

These are the results. You may have more of an idea what is going on in there than I do. Looks a bit spooky. Bit like the film Alien.


















I appreciate I shall not be winning any photography prizes. To get an image on the laptop you have to be a inch away and steering it from the rear wheelarch is tricky, I know how those guys taking pictures of the Titanic from an ROV feel now.

I could get from one end to the other.

Then I cleaned the area of the hole, sprayed a bit of satin black on and inserted a grommet.

Certainly the sills have always felt strong from a jacking point of view.



I feel some waxing coming on (after the paint).

[288gto]

Quite a useful tool, and because it's cheap you don't mind getting it covered in dinitrol. I used mine to make sure I'd got thoroughly in every cavity with the wax.



Yours doesn't look too bad but definitely needs a good dose of cavity wax.

The bits to check with the camera are the bottoms of the strengthening gussets below the A and B posts as these go first. You got a bit of one in a picture.

Simon