Made some good progress today
A. Install rear frame addition for hanging exhaust from
At least it fits! All the joints need re welding though as the pigeons have had a field day on it....
Grounds the welds back
And rewelded
Had to weld the 2 feet on as i don't have a bolt-able mounting point thanks to the galvanising locking the sliding plates in the top way off centre, drilled the centre mount and bolted it up,
Couple of coats of chassis paint later and its done
B. Seatbelt mounts
Spent a very frustrating hours cleaning out as much of the zinc in the seatbelt mounting holes in chassis as possible with a needle file so i didn't wreck the threads, ran all three taps through though and its all good so popped in the belt eyes.
Then turned my thoughts to how and where to mount the outer lap belt mounts, i ordered some belt mount plates from Rally Design this is what i came up with
Just trimmed about 10mm off one side of the purchased mounting plates
The piece of box needed the end capping up so decided to do it before welding the box to the frame.
A little fine welding around the edges
Quick clean up with a flap wheel later
Clamped it up and welded it in, not my prettiest welding but it was in a very awkward place , thats my excuse and I'm sticking to it!
Couple of coats of paint later and the eye bolt installed, had to trim the thread back about 10mm as it was bottoming out against the frame
Then did the other side
C. Clean up the fuel tank
Borrowed next doors steam cleaner and gave it a good going over inside and out
Pleasantly surprised at how clean the inside is
Back at it tomorrow and will have Dave's help so should be more progress to report tomorrow.
Mac