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garyt 20th September 2016 07:33 PM

oh and while I am on a roll here delving through my build pics one thing that my iva tester said he would liked a bit better was the lower seat belt mounts I did them as per the book , he said a couple of webs across the tube on each end of the plate would have been better nut he was still happy and passed them.
take loads of pics along the way of unaccesabile areas , I have heaps of them lol they will be needed later on .

chris_smith 20th September 2016 08:14 PM

thanks garyt ill bear that in mind

flyerncle 22nd September 2016 09:46 AM

I did that,make the plate longer and fold ends and add more weld.

chris_smith 24th September 2016 06:20 PM

hi everyone, so another weekend has arrived, I started by moving the upright as per previous posts.

then added all the diagonals.

I then had the tedious task of removing the diff bolts that hold the PFF on, my word that took for ever with a lot of help from "Harry Hot Spanner":eek:

then set about the rear diff cage




garyt 24th September 2016 06:37 PM

that's good progress your making there, keep up the good work and yes there are a few stubborn bolts to get through :)

chris_smith 2nd October 2016 06:46 PM

more progress over last couple of days -

didnt have any 3mm plate for rear shock top assembly, so I put together my own using what I had lying around, will be a little bit more substantial :p

tunnel literally finished too




chris_smith 2nd October 2016 06:47 PM





garyt 2nd October 2016 08:34 PM

Great to see you getting on , good work

chris_smith 15th October 2016 07:28 PM

spent a few hours today fully welding the chassis, still have the rear panel supports to sort but need my rear panel to do that effectively, so set about sorting the steering column -



garyt 16th October 2016 07:14 PM

Great to see some more done something to think about now as well is what are you doing re the roll bar? More specifically the rear braces I copied a previous idea and put 2 wishbone brackets on the back edge of the diff mount plates pictures in my build or I can post them if you want to look. Others have taken them down to the rear corners at the bottom of the rear panel
Anyway great work keep going


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