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[SeriesLandy]

Couple of little tips, wish I knew these at the time as it would have saved me a lot of time and annoyance today.

Undo the bleed screws on the brakes and leave them loose, I sheared mine today (very pissed off)

There is no need to undo the hub nuts (41mm socket), you can remove the bolts (13mm) that hold the backplate onto the rear uprights through the wheel carrier (bit with studs on).

If the cv boots are perished you can get expandable ones rather than having to strip them down. DO NOT cut the cans as per the haynes manual.

If you buy any bits in, dont assume as they came from a company that does specific roadster bits that they are correct. Measure them to make sure they are correct eg mushroom depth, steering rack extensions have an internal thread (both have happened to me)

[K4KEV]

can sort the mushies for a tenner plus p&p

[SeriesLandy]

Originally Posted by K4KEV

can sort the mushies for a tenner plus p&p

Thanks for the offer kev, I think my next door neighbour has a lathe so ill ask him If I can use it one eve 1st.

[K4KEV]

Ahhh even more beterer

[eSteve]

Well, big progress this weekend.

For a few months now I have had all the RHS bits of the chassis done, but was putting off doing the 'important bits'. That is, the seat belt mounts, roll-ball cross member, roll bar rear stays suspension mounts, etc.

So I called in the A-team: My brother-in-law (BIL) is a ticketed Llyod's welder, so time to call on his expertise. I had welded up all the RHS for the chassis but wasn't so confident in doing the 'if that weld breaks I'm in a ditch' bits of welding.

So spent last two weeks preping (sp?), the roll bar, seat belt mounts, suspension mounts, blah, blah...

Then this weekend with BIL in charge of the MIG and me in charge of the hacksaw, file and kettle, and fuelled by a mixture of bacon butties and coffee off we went.

Six hours of hard graft later and all seatbelt mounts, roll bar, suspension mounts, fore and rear towing eyes, extra gusseting on some of the lower side rails (gussets nicely cut on BIL co's laser cutter) and general making good some of my more dodgy looking welding and we're done.

I finally feel like, that instead of having a large collection of RHS welded together in an interesting shape, I now have a car chassis. At last, I have things on the chassis with holes in! I can bolt things to it! The chassis building phase is over (pretty well) (the end of the beginning?, as WC said) and I can think about actually building a car once again.

Thanks BIL.

[Adrian H: have recessed your/my VIN number plate into the engine bay diagonal, I've yet to grind it back flush with the RHS but when I do it should look rather good, thanks for making it up for me.]

[Bonzo]

Pleased to read that you have made some progress with your build Steve

Sounds like you have managed to get a fair bit done over the weekend, well done

I look forward to seeing some progress pictures