Work last week was limited by other commitments but I did succeed in fitting the rain deflector above the windows on the nearside. This is now properly fixed to the wooden “cheeses” on each window pillar and to the cant rail. It needs some attention to get the lower edge straight. Today I have been making the beading for the window pillars.
Tag Archives: beading
16/5/2021
Having fitted the final nearside window, I was able to properly install the waistrail beading. I am a bit unhappy with the positioning of it as it rises slightly under the last window. I may try to correct this before painting.
With the beading done I fitted the inner wheelarch cover. This required the manufacture of replacement mounting bracket from angle iron, screwed to the floor alongside the wheel opening. I also had to do some work on the beading around the border of the wheel opening which would otherwise be inaccessible after the wheelarch cover was fitted.
Rear wheelhousing repainted, step plate replaced and assembly reinstalled.
Next, I was able to install the outer wheelarch and mudwing assembly that I had made up previously (see entry for 29/4/2021). I was surprised at how well this fitted. The last couple of days have been spent in finishing the mudwing with filler and preparing the existing half-round wheelarch beading for refitting.
31/3/2021
I completed the nearside waistrail beading with the exception of the upper (half-round section) that fits under the last couple of windows and goes round to the number plate box. That section is only temporary as I will have to remove it to fit the last window when the glass arrives. The lower (flat) beading is now attached all the way from the entrance door to the rear number plate box.
Next I attached the boot door drip-rail to the body above the boot door opening.
The aluminium for the rear wheelarches and mudwings is on order.
Today I ordered the replacement glass for the last nearside window and the front destination box.
I also drilled all the holes in the right-hand boot door for all the fittings, including the missing ring-pull handle that by luck I found on eBay. I noted also that the lower budget lock on this door was very stiff because it had probably never been used, owing to the fact that the hole in door frame was out of line with the hole in the lock tongue so a carriage key could not engage with it from outside. I corrected this.
The pull handle needs a plate mounting on the inside of the door to give it something to pull on other than just the escutcheon screws.
View of NS waistrail looking forwards.
Rear end with beading and drip-rail above door opening.