Finished removing the radiator support panel and front chassis beam. You can see by the difference between the smoothness inside the chassis rail on the passengers side compared to the little corrosion holes on the drivers side the effect the water has had. Lucky it can all be rust treated and will be fine. Also the bottom of the chassis beam just disintegrated on the passenger side when i pulled it out as shown. My next step here is to get the replacement beam fabricated and find a decent MIG welder to borrow. I have taken out the struts, sway bar and entire steering rack and column. I then pulled out rear diff and suspension. Going to be keeping the stock diff but its going to need a big clean up first. So now the car is up on stands. I decided to try using a die grinder on low PSI and a sanding wheel thingy (I don't know what it's called) to strip the underbody. It wasnt powerful enough though and cant get through the rubbery chunks so i am going to try various wire wheels. If that doesnt work i may have to bite the bullet and go with a chemical stripper which may be the best option anyway due to all the grease and oil and garbage on the underbody as you can see on the third last pic. All is not lost though as the sanding wheel thingy is awesome for stripping the paint back to bare metal so that will save me a heap of sanding down the track.

Thanks
Trav

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