Wishbones Jigs in the Westcountry

[tkpm]

Hi all,

Does anyone in the westcountry have wishbones jigs i can borrow in about a months time.

Don't mind driving to collect them anywhere from Lands End to Bristol or to Poole.

Terry

[Tony]

Hi Terry, Im Tony the chop and trike builder that used to be around on bideford quay thursday evenings

If you need a hand with anything just gimme a yell :)
, if your building up westward ho way then Im literally 2 minutes away up the hill.

I have spent about a month sourcing the best quality/value parts that I could find for building the back end of one of these

Im building a bike trike using the roadster wishbones, uprights etc

Tony

[Talonmotorsport]

Copied and pasted this from an earlier posting by me on how to make the jigs a little easier to use.
There is a much easier way of making a steel jig that will do all wishbones and it uses less than 2mtrs of 25x25 and 500mm of 19x19. It's a basic rectangle made to the biggest wishbone that being the lower rear. Put your bush tubes in place on a flat surface and use the 19box as a straight clamp bar top and bottom. I use cheap G clamps as weld splatter tends to stick to the threads. As it's a backless jig you'll be able to turn the jig over and weld the other side with out unclamping it. For the top wish bones simply weld another tube lower down,clamp the bush tubes in place as before and tack the threaded tubes in place.

link below to pic of what I'm trying to say

http://www.haynes.co.uk/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=650&d=1263585690

[tkpm]

Hi Tony,

It's been a while since i've seen you down the quay,as it happens, i am building my car in my lock-up in Westward Ho!

AS for the wishbones, i've cheated. I have ordered them already made up from 3ge down in Honiton, as the wishbones are visible and my welding is not the neatest around, i thought i would get them done these guys.

Terry

[Tony]

might have a bit of a wait :(

will drop down and see you sometime, Im just about to start making the rear cage for my diff, then starting on the stressed member twin tube front part

3ge do the bushes very cheap, but he has health problems and delivery times are very slow

AS motorsport, and rogue engineering supplied most of my bits so far