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

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

[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]

Originally Posted by swanntech

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!