Dave's la(te)st buggy build...

No work on the buggy today Needed a bit of a day off for once!

So a nice lie-in, walked the dogs down the river, a cooked brunch, prepped S200KYS for our day-trip to the Lake District next weekend, cleaned the drive and loaded the route onto the iPad...

Time to commandeer the sofa and watch some car programs with a beer!

More soon though!

Good effort. Please tell me how you get to be in charge of the television though. I don't seem to be able to achieve that status.

Kirkynut

kirkynut wrote: Good effort. Please tell me how you get to be in charge of the television though. I don't seem to be able to achieve that status.

Kirkynut

EASY! Put your foot down man, with a firm hand!... Errr, no, she was in the conservatory reading a novel on her kindle with a Labrador cuddles up to her! :lol:

Would you believe!... I've been on to the metal supplier AGAIN this morning, and they;ve said that Tuffnels have lost my four metre length of seamless tube?! They're sending me another length overnight...

On to other bits today then?

Bit of an update later I'm sure...

How does one misplace a 4 meter length of pipe? I would be constantly tripping over it if it were me.

Drivers lost it up his ass.......................

Yup. god knows how they lose something that long?!

Anyhoo... today...

I started quietly as the som-in-law-to-be was still in bed recovering from too much alcohol! Youth of today :lol:

So... in a few spare hours recently I've been trying (being the operative word!) to drill some 20mm holes in some bar -



To make some recovery ponts for the rear...

No way they are going through though, even with pilot holes, bigger drill, etc, etc...

So I remembered GV42 had a set advertised on this fine forum, but thought they would stick out to far with no rear bumper, BUT that got me thinking about JimnyBits' tw0-plate construction, and an idea formed in my head (yes, and then died a lonely death! :lol: )



I had these CNC cut to make some anti-roll-bar disconnects up, but have yet to sell any in kit form, and haven't got the time to weld them up into complete bolt-on solutions... so I "stole" a few from stock...



I drilled the chassis to suit and bolted them in place...



You cam just abut see the second hole / bolt goes through both the tow boint bracket and the chassis rai and has a small sleeve on top to stop them been pulled together and clamp it in tight...



And then did the other side

Matching pair!

By now the son-in-law-to-be had risen from the dead, so I carried on...l