Mounting Saturn/Gillham Nosecone

[skov]

Hi All,

Just been trying to get my new Gillham nosecone to fit, and I'm struggling a bit...

The old one went under the front frame at the bottom and I fixed it with a couple of bolts that went through holes in the nosecone into threaded inserts in the frame.

The new one however seems to be a stupidly tight fit if I try to make it go under the frame at the front.
And if I do get it to go under the bottom of the frame there doesn't seem to be enough overlap for the bolts :confused:

It seems to want to sit against the frame at the bottom, rather than going under it.

Anyone else had this problem?

[K4KEV]

That how mine was fitted John....I pop riveted a length of ally angle to the front frame and then used some rivnuts onto the horizontal for nosecone mount bolts to go in upwards.

[skov]

Thanks Kev, I think I might steal that idea :D

[alga]

Mine was the same, pop riveted an ally tab with a hole and a rivnut in the front bottom tube.

[SeriesLandy]

I had the same problem, first nose fit fine under the rail.
Second wasn't any where close so I welded 3 tabs with captive nuts onto the front frame, trimmed the FG off so the nose was flush and drilled 3 holes.

[skov]

Thanks all. Strange that the nosecone seems have changed size!

[james3004]

I used a litte tab of angle on mine wth a single rivnut in it to bolt the nose cone too, if I recall correctly your old one was one of the first saturn ones with thinner top tabs, maybe there was a difference to the later ones?

[swanntech]

i now it might be a bit late but i made mine hinge forward to give access to the radiator

[skov]

i now it might be a bit late but i made mine hinge forward to give access to the radiator

Yep, little bit late! I went with SeriesLandy's suggestion and welded a couple of tabs/nuts to the front frame.

Your idea sounds interesting though!