Inner & Outer Sills, Door Steps

This set of photographs show the fitting of the inner and outer sills, and the replacement door steps. This process involved the use of original, patent and home made panels. This part of the restoration should have been straight forward but, as expected, it wasn't. The problem was that the inner sills, part of the replacement floor, were not the correct height. They did not quite reach the height required by the door steps. Andy had to make up an extension panel for each side of the body.
		Inner Sills This photograph shows an extension panel welded to the top of the inner sill. Andy's new panel included a flanged lip to make the join with the sill undetectable. To calculate the required height for the door steps and extension panels, the doors had to be re-attached in order to act as a reference.

Outer Sills Next the outer sills were attached and welded into position. At this stage it is important to remember to install the jacking points. A jacking point can be seen centred between the inner and outer sills.

Door Step This photograph shows one of the two newly installed door steps. These panels fitted perfectly once the height of the inner sills had been extended. These panels also replaced the corroded sections between the rear wheel arches and the door supports.

Leading This photograph shows the leading applied to the rear section of the car. These areas on Minis are always badly corroded! It was extremely useful to have replacement sections as part of the door step repair panels.