Core Support Crossmember Build
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Core Support Crossmember Mockup
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Making space for Air

Posted on Wed, 30/12/2009 - 19:00 by Lawrence
With the frame on its side to work on, I could get to work on the spring pockets. I put the lower A arm back on temporarily, and bolted the Shockwave front shock to it. They were too wide for the pocket, so I cut all the way round the outer edge and folded it all back until they had a decent amount of space around them. Unfortunately I found the top spring retaining ring hit the top of the shock, so I had to open that up as well to give it some clearance. I'm sure it would have been ...

Making a Start on the Frame

Posted on Mon, 28/12/2009 - 18:45 by Lawrence
I had decided that I should leave the bodywork alone for a while till it's all back together and can be worked on properly, so it was time to look at the frame. I hated the way the front clip stuck out of the frame rails and wanted to blend it in properly. Before I went too far I double checked that it was straight as the piece I chopped off the front was so bad but luckily it was correct. I welded a piece of box section to the crossmember to hold it up on it's side, and ...

Front Valance Gets filled in and Repaired

Posted on Sun, 29/11/2009 - 20:00 by Lawrence
With some paint on the cab, I moved on to some of the other bare metal bits that were sat in the garage. I had two pretty ropey front valance panels and had started to make one good one from them. I didn't plan on running a front bumper so I wanted the bumper holes filled in too. I cut out the openings and cut patch panels from the worst one before tacking it all together. Unfortunately neither of them were in good shape in the centre section, so it took a lot of heating and ...

First bit of Paint

Posted on Sun, 18/10/2009 - 20:00 by Lawrence
The weather here is getting increasingly colder and wetter as we head towards winter, and the bare metal cab sat in the garage was starting to worry me a little to say the least. I decided that regardless of what state it was in I was going to put a light coat of sealer on when I finished on Sunday. It's been a while since I painted anything, and a quick check of my Devilbiss gun revealed it was leaking air. I'd lent it to someone, and they must have taken it to bits, lost the seal, and ...