NEW galvanised chassis
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Rowan Clearwater
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Get a copy of LRO back issue that covers one?
- And a big garage, and a stack of beer for the help lifting you're gonna need
- And a big garage, and a stack of beer for the help lifting you're gonna need
Rowan Clearwater
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oooh, I think I've left that one at work. I'll reply monday unless somone else can find it first.
I think they did it from the bottom up tho - Wheels, axles, (new springs), Transmission, engine, Then undid all chassis to body bolts (correction, ground off most)Electrics, then lifted the entire body straight up and supported on trestles and scaffolding. Dragged old chassis out, and rolled rew rolling chassis in. Spend the next two weeks fitting it all together and that should be about it ??
Find a good engineering merchants for all your new bolts, as it would be well worth while buying a bag of 100 of each- stick with the imperial.
Good luck.
I think they did it from the bottom up tho - Wheels, axles, (new springs), Transmission, engine, Then undid all chassis to body bolts (correction, ground off most)Electrics, then lifted the entire body straight up and supported on trestles and scaffolding. Dragged old chassis out, and rolled rew rolling chassis in. Spend the next two weeks fitting it all together and that should be about it ??
Find a good engineering merchants for all your new bolts, as it would be well worth while buying a bag of 100 of each- stick with the imperial.
Good luck.
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I'm just doing mine at the moment. The biggest problems are, storing the stuff you take off, having the time, knowing where to stop and start when spending money. Frinstance I was going to get new springs there only 13 quid each but get four an thats over 50 quid so I measured the owld uns an they're summat like the lengths they should be. I was going to have all the steel stuff that was painted galvenized but that would have ended up taking a couple of weeks and costing about a hundred quid when for a fiver for a tin of Shutz stuff and a couple of days wire brushing they'll do the job well enough and outlast me, on the other hand I was going to drill out and rebush the door hinges it'd have taken a couple of days fannying about when for 20 odd quid I can have new uns. Any how it's not as daunting as you might think and a bit of a laff, if you like that sort of thing. Whether it's worth it in the end who knows.
Grunt said .....Any how it's not as daunting as you might think and a bit of a laff, if you like that sort of thing. Whether it's worth it in the end who knows.
And I would say this - once you're done, and it's running fine and looking great, you'll be feeling THAT feeling, that no boy-racer with a tatrrted-up tin can will ever feel.
And you'll probably have it for 20 or 30 years too!
CharlesY
And I would say this - once you're done, and it's running fine and looking great, you'll be feeling THAT feeling, that no boy-racer with a tatrrted-up tin can will ever feel.
And you'll probably have it for 20 or 30 years too!
CharlesY
