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Friends Reunited
After some head scratching as to the fitting of the brake limiter mounting plate (Should the third mounting have had a captive nut inside the box section? No sign of a hole all the way through on the photos of the original and neither of us could remember having taken the old plate off/ we resorted to a rivnut insert in the end.) plus some further fettling of the tank installation and the main brake and fuel lines, we went for a return of the body tub to its old home.
Ideally the tub would have gone off for paint first, but I do intend to pursue the idea of rollering the paint finish, as per my efforts recorded elsewhere on the forum with one of the doors, which I have now extended to the nearside wings and the inner wings.
I also need to avoid abusing Paul's hospitality for too much longer, and so it has gone back on, in its raw, repaired state.
Anyway, things generally went well today, the two components aligned reasonably well albeit the two rear mountings at the back of the boot needed a little persuasion and the two bulkhead bracket mountings on top of the front chassis members were particularly reluctant, in spite of not having been altered at all from their original state. However, after quite a bit of heaving and prising, most of the fixings were aligned and fitted, and bolted down.
To celebrate, I reconnected the steering and the former pile of bits started to feel like a car once more as we wheeled it back inside. A little bit more fettling will be required next week and then I will load it onto a trailer behind my long suffering estate car, and take it home.
Final question to those of you who are following this, does anyone have a layout of the brake plumbing at the back end? Although I photographed it to death whilst dismantling, I can't quite get my head around the pipework layout, especially how the second brake line to the rear of the car actually works. Does anyone have a simple sketch layout?
After some head scratching as to the fitting of the brake limiter mounting plate (Should the third mounting have had a captive nut inside the box section? No sign of a hole all the way through on the photos of the original and neither of us could remember having taken the old plate off/ we resorted to a rivnut insert in the end.) plus some further fettling of the tank installation and the main brake and fuel lines, we went for a return of the body tub to its old home.
Ideally the tub would have gone off for paint first, but I do intend to pursue the idea of rollering the paint finish, as per my efforts recorded elsewhere on the forum with one of the doors, which I have now extended to the nearside wings and the inner wings.
I also need to avoid abusing Paul's hospitality for too much longer, and so it has gone back on, in its raw, repaired state.
Anyway, things generally went well today, the two components aligned reasonably well albeit the two rear mountings at the back of the boot needed a little persuasion and the two bulkhead bracket mountings on top of the front chassis members were particularly reluctant, in spite of not having been altered at all from their original state. However, after quite a bit of heaving and prising, most of the fixings were aligned and fitted, and bolted down.
To celebrate, I reconnected the steering and the former pile of bits started to feel like a car once more as we wheeled it back inside. A little bit more fettling will be required next week and then I will load it onto a trailer behind my long suffering estate car, and take it home.
Final question to those of you who are following this, does anyone have a layout of the brake plumbing at the back end? Although I photographed it to death whilst dismantling, I can't quite get my head around the pipework layout, especially how the second brake line to the rear of the car actually works. Does anyone have a simple sketch layout?