Mac - It was a long evening, but when everyone was finally gone I could at last sit down for a beer with my wife.
Ed - I really appreciate the offer, but I will at least give it a go using the vinyl first.
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Friday:
As well as preparing for the teenage girl invasion, I also went to visit my mate who had a stroke last week in hospital.
He can't really speak and struggles to write, but by all accounts this is still a big improvement from where he was.
I'm glad I went, but it was hard to see his frustration at the fact his body wouldn't do what he wanted to do.
Although one bit of light relief was that I couldn't find his ward and the directions I was given were useless.
This resulted in me walking into the wing where Kate just had her baby and asking for more directions there.
I did think it looked very smart & noticed two big security guards keeping an eye on me as I spoke to the nurses.
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Saturday:
It was the afternoon before I finally got a chance to do some work on the car...
Rolling Chassis:
Although the first job was to sweep the driveway so I had a clean area to work in & lie on the floor.
Next I spent some time looking at the bolt holes / crush tubes in the chassis that the framework bolts to.
Because I had previously noticed one bolt was slightly off centre before I removed the framework.
So I used a full length bolt as a guide and then did my best to fix this properly.
Before:
I re-drilled the hole in the bottom of the chassis to give me this "After" position.
Unfortunately, the angles of the photos don't help, but this is definitely an improvement.
But then the old/surplus hole had to be welded shut.
Note:
This was tidied up a bit more after the photo was taken.
I then re-welded the crush tube to chassis joins along the top edge.
Whilst I had not planned to drill extra holes, I had planned to used "spreader" washers.
So I made cardboard templates for the four metal squares I'd cut out & painted ages ago.
Then putting a hole in the cardboard let me mark up & drill holes in the "washers".
There is a curve on the inside edge of the chassis, so these washers stop short of that.
But continues just beyond the outside edge of the chassis.
So a good few hours working this afternoon has made little visual difference.
But this should improve the way that the frame bolts to the chassis, so well worth the effort.
Until next time, take care, Paul.