Ulysses

No worries Riccy, always happy to help!

I'd had a day in the garage, and was in the shower when Brett rang (yes, with my beloved Stella of course), so I rang him back to see what was wrong, donned my scruffs again and prepped the garage / equipment for your arrival...

Anytime mate...

You owe me? Ok, I'll take that.... breakfast next time we're out together, hopefully soon... September maybe? If there's space on the trip... Alan is itching to come on that one too as he drew the (original) route... (probably before Brett added stuff to it! )

Cheers! Dave 

Finished off the panhard repair today. Used some of Dave's patent CAD to make a template for the drop to the bar and cut it out in the remainder of the steel box section Dave gave me (yes he even gave me the metal to fix it!)

 

 

Quick test fit and measure to check its in the right place and has the correct angle of dangle

 

Then out with the welder to burn through some mig wire stitching the two bits together and onto the chassis. Ive welded up inside it as well as outside then all round the plate onto the chassis and spring mount. Nice and strong now.

 

Then gunk it all up with Buzzweld CIO black

 

That paint dries really quickly so within an hour it was dry enough to put back on and go for a test drive. Steering wheel isnt centred so that means I need to adjust the bar a little, but what a difference. It must have slowly being going wrong for a while, now the steering is pin sharp  

Pleased with that so I treated myself to fitting the new shafts from Brett for the floating rear conversion. Easy enough. All I needed to do was undo the 6 bolts holding the vac hub to the axle and pull out/pop in the new shafts. 20 mins max job. Love that floating rear setup, so easy to work on 

Looks good riccy

Yay, back to business!

Such a tidy job, almost a shame to paint it....

sniper

Thanks guys, hopefully it'll last another 15 years!

John/Sniper - its not as tidy as I would like mate. I've been eyeing up some better welding machines and it would certainly help. When I was bodge welding it at Dave's with the 'proper' welder he has, it was miles easier to lay a bead with that machine. It was almost on the lowest setting to get something I could use for my rusty old Jimny and the gas flow was far superior. Time to look for a better welder methinks