Still avoiding working on the fiber glass. The oil pick up pipe for my engine was badly bent/damaged. A new one cost £60 so machined section of pipe to the correct OD and welded on a couple of metal washers to make a new one.
1-May-2020
Metal fabrication day, two new brackets that hold the horns in place.
This was followed by two stainless steel plates that hold the door strap in place so car door doesn’t open too much. Not much left of originals so decided stainless steel would be a better material as there would be no need to paint and they won’t rust no matter how wet they get inside the door.
30-Apr-2020
Have spent a few hours over the last few days getting the boot catch to fit and function correctly. First step was to resin three captive nuts into the boot lid for the catch to attach too. Once set the catch was install but there was insufficient adjustment to make it fit operate correctly (when boot was closed it wasn’t kept tightly shut). The solution was to weld a 5 mm extension on catch (you can probably just make out the weld that’s been ground flat in photo below).
24-Apr-2020
Was missing a knurled thumb screw for one of the window frames so made a replacement out of stainless steel on my lathe.
As it was so much shinier than the original one I actually ended up having to make ta second one.
17 Apr-2020
Removed the front sub frame to weld up the box section I cut to make the twin 40 DCOE Weber carburetors fit. Think it;s now ready to be shot blasted and painted (not sure when that will be yet).
