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13th November 2014, 13:30
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Did you just post a picture of a semi tightened nut at the base of a solid shaft that you slid into a hole with a bush around it? That's what I like about folk that get stuff done, they are completely insane!
Re your laberynth of buildings, at least you dont do what my dad does and keep extending the garage each time his car won't fit in well more precise he gets me to extend it. Concrete section at a time thing is we are nearly into the park at the back now and he has just bought a lathe so in spring we are going forwards and up the drive. He has told my mum its just to fit a lintel and one wide electric door , but I have seen how many bricks he has bought. He is well into his seventies and still craving more work space it must never end.
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13th November 2014, 17:31
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Later Thursday
I sympathise with you Ed, not sure what the answer is there!
Well, I went back out and ripped out all the dash, boo-hoo!
I made two steel bridges and got them in place to strengthen the scuttle where I had butchered it, I plasti-cuffed the loom up to it, and lashed all the loose ends, connections and instruments to the windscreen, out of the way.
All this was such a pain to do, working in a very uncomfortable position, half upside down, etc etc that taking pictures was a real no-no, and out of the question, so I didn't do any.
But I have taken one of the end result, which is not pretty.
Having done all this work, which as ever, took much longer than planned. the day was over, so I packed it in.
Next job is to trial fit the modded gearbox cover, then build some sort of frame around it, so I can brace the scuttle from the chassis up, similar to what Triumph did, but without the dreaded "H" frame...........
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17th November 2014, 12:41
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Horrible weather Monday morning
Okay, so I continued this morning with getting the gearbox cover ready for fitting. I noticed that some of the captive anchor clips for the fitting bolts were missing, so rather than try to source some, order them and wait days on end, I just made a few.
I trial fitted the cover several times, each time chopping out more material the fouled the Jaguar gear lever, until I got it right.
Way back when I devised my side exhaust system, I ordered a sheet of heat insulation foil type stuff, which I had intended to cover the passengers floor with to stop their feet cooking. After some summer trials when I left the engine running for 20 minutes or so, then checked the said floor, I was surprised to find out that it was hardly even warm!
Just goes to show what a half inch air gap can do.
And that was with the car stationary. So my insulation material became redundant. That is until now.
When I took the gearbox cover off in the first place the insulation that Triumph provided which looked like a plastic bag full of used tampons--- (I'm sure all you Triumph owners know what I mean) having been on the car for over 40 years just fell apart, so I needed a replacement, which is where my foil stuff came in handy.
So I cut to shape, and lined the cover with it. Should work okay.
It is now lunchtime, so I will fit the cover later.
Here is a visual record of my mornings work:
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17th November 2014, 16:14
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later Monday
I went out to fit the gearbox cover, and had 10 of the twelve bolts in position
after 25 minutes.
HOWEVER, the remaining two bolts , took another 2 f**king hours!
Basically, it took all afternoon.
I cannot ever remember having to do a worse job. I thought I had had shitty jobs in the past, but they pale in comparison to this bastard.
I will not go into the finer details of the excruciatingly painful saga, except to mention cut and bleeding fingers, broken drill-bits, VOLUMES of extra-ordinary foul language, cramped impossible body positions etc etc.
BUT, the bloody thing is in the car now.
Another day, I will start to build the scuttle bracing frame, and panel out the interior in aluminium. And hide the Triumph gear box cover from view.
And then it is going to start looking like the car it's trying hard to be.
(Or at least what I'm trying hard for it to be)
Watch this space.
One picture represents all that pain!!
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17th November 2014, 16:57
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I feel your pain, Scottie. It was such a pita job trying to get the holes lined up with the anchor clips that my gearbox cover is only held in with a pair of self-tappers at the lever end and friction at the bulkhead end. It's stayed in place since July 2013 though.
Keep up the good work and you'll be on the road by Christmas...
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17th November 2014, 17:37
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I'm glad you wrote that piece Mr T! I was wondering if it was just me that had an ar**hole gear box cover!!
Well, mine's held in very well now, I hope to hell I never have to remove it in the near future.
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17th November 2014, 17:59
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Scottie - Sounds like it was a nightmare, so at least it is done now.
So far I've only got the horizontal gearbox cover holes sorted out.
The only advantage I had was the fact I had to repair all the edges of the bulkhead, so I could drill the holes to match the cover.
Where did you get the foil matting from?
Initially I wasn't planning on insulating the cover, but it does look like a good idea.
Good luck, Paul.
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17th November 2014, 18:17
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I got it on ebay, and it came from Hong Kong Paul.
Google that type of thing in and have a browse, I'm sure you'll find it.
I got it so long ago all the info has dropped off my ebay.
Good luck with it, it is worth getting, and it was very cheap if I remember. The UK stuff is double the price.
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17th November 2014, 18:43
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Not Hong Kong Fuey... Hong Kong Paul.
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19th November 2014, 08:30
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I worked most of yesterday constructing the scuttle support frame.
which like all the other jobs took (and still is) longer than I thought, lots of welding, fitting in the car welding again and so on.
I can see why one-off fabrication is so expensive now, it's very time consuming. It was such intense work for me that I forgot totake any pics, but I really hope to finish it today so will post some then
When that is done I plan to start on the interior paneling in ally,
which so far seems to have eluded me.
But it all boils down to "this job cannot be done until that one is done" so it sometimes appears that I am actually going backwards, but of course this is not the case and I am getting ever close to the completion of the car.
I will post the frame pics later today with any luck.
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19th November 2014, 09:46
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My injured finger really hurt this morning, it had gone septic 'cos I dressed it hastily yesterday, so I had to clean it up a bit to make it heal, which was painful, but its alright to heal now.
All ghouls pay attention:
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19th November 2014, 10:26
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What was the hasty dressing - a quick bind up with masking tape to stop the blood going everywhere! Been there, but not always good practice. It is amazing how fanatical we can be with creating things that any danger to our well being is often ignored.
Keep up the good work and look after yourself.
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19th November 2014, 10:56
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19th November 2014, 11:17
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Never nice cleaning up rotting wounds, even when someone else is doing it for you
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19th November 2014, 14:40
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Oxford: No, I don't have a mini you :-)
Froggy, the hasty dressing was a length of rusty barbed wire wrapped around it to stop the bleeding :-) It didn't work
WCA, Wow! looks like you were fiddling around with your crossbow, and it went off and got you in the heel! Ouch!!! :-)
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19th November 2014, 15:06
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Wednesdays work
Well I started out with good intentions, and went out early to buy yet another sheet of aluminium, and on the way back, noticed some logging going on in my area. After negotiating a good deal for a special bottle of wine, I returned to the site with my chainsaw.
(The deal was " Wow! what a nice bottle of wine, help yourself mate")
Well I hacked up enough wood for the rest of the winter, but did not do any stuff on my car. Sometimes life just really gets in the way, but I could not pass up an opportunity like that.
In some of the farm shops around here a stupid little net with a few logs goes for a fiver, (would last me about an hour and a half) based on such prices I must have around a grands worth of timber in the back of my van, not a bad days work.
The downside is, I'm so knackered now that I don't want to work any more today!
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19th November 2014, 16:53
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That is a bit of skin she has lifted off. When I snapped the foot off the skin was sheared from the flesh so it looked like a skin ankle warmer for a while.
I had to wait for the skin to die and start to rot a bit before they decided it wouldn't re-seat itself and agreed to remove it.
Nice load of logs, just need a nice warm garage to store them in. Best get cracking with the car so you can make space...
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19th November 2014, 18:28
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Sod the car for today! The logs can stay out too!
You are lucky to still have a foot WCA.
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20th November 2014, 08:07
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After seeing the cut finger and then you wrote a post starting with "chainsaw".... i was was wondering where things were going to go!
Now if that had been WCA posting that....
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20th November 2014, 08:17
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They say there is no smoke without fire Dave, and I'm sure that "World class accident" is not called that for nothing!
There are some things he does in style!
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