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Busy day. Dampers, springs, turrets, retainers, spring clamps all fitted! When shockingly 😅 smoothly. All done in about 6 hours. Serviced it as well. Shock turrets drawn, laser cut, CNC bent and Mig welded by me :D Also fitted the RRC...

Think some military axles had thicker pans and heavy trussing but rather rare. Thanks 😊 Partly for my own records partly as a thank you to the community. Spending countless hours reading threads in the past trying to find solutions to odd...

DIY Diff Pan arrived from Gwyn! Welded up, cleaned off. Ready for the axle case which arrived today!

Couple hours more… Needs prettying up a bit but went smoothly

I would leave the V8 in place as although the 3.5L is the least powerful of the RV8's it's also the most reliable, but then I'm a petrol head with a passion for keeping old vehicles original & a pathological hatred of conversions :( You have...

Everything interlinks (obviously) so in order to square away one bit i have to sort out other bits. To get the front wing on and sorted I have to finish the bulkhead and pillar and add the rest bar, but to finish bulkhead I need to finish the...

Pretty sure it’s inner but no good pictures and can’t get to drivers atm 😂

Can someone remind me if the little curve tack welds in to the outer (as shown) or inner please? I’ve done the pillar repair - the repair panel was crap. Yrm or nothing from now on. It’s short by 2mm so going to have to weld a little piece on...