15 Apr
I didn’t get any time on the roadster yesterday really; we went shoe shopping then to the physio with number one son, My polo radiator turned up so I spent a little time pondering mounting it.
To today then, it was full steam ahead on radiator bottom mounts, I came up with a fantastically over engineered plan.
First I worked out the optimum position with the nose cone on and steering rack in place, then removed both of them. I made a card template which you can see in the following picture on the right, then transferred that to steel, on the left. Then bashed it about and welded it to the front frame, centre in the first picture.
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Next after carful measuring again (450mm centre to centre of the polo mounting spigots) I drilled a 12mm hole then fitted a grommet which the spigots on the bottom of the polo radiator slide into just nice.
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And with the radiator in place.
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I have made a start on the top mounting brackets but there is not nearly enough engineering involved yet, watch this space.
At 3pm this afternoon I made my way over to ‘Enoch’s’ so he could drill and tap the thread for the grub screw to hold the mushroom insert in my front up-rights.
What a job would have taken me about two hours he cracked it in 30mins. A good point Dave made was not to drill through the very side at the up-rights thinnest point as this is A. weak and B. only gives the grub screw a thread or two of purchase, so we off set the hole rearwards to a slightly meatier section. Makes perfect sense really.
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No working in the garage tomorrow, family day, I might fit some in around the GP at the weekend.
Cheers Ginge