Continued working on assembling the framing for the next bay including setting the position of the side rod extension in bay 2 using a plumb line and cutting the perimeter rail piece at both ends to form the joint with the side rod extensions. I also cut the next section of lower perimeter rail which meets the wheelarch frame at its farthest end. Noted that there is some discrepancy in position of the frame rail at this point, which would lead to the body flaring inwards slightly towards the rear wheel. which I may be able to correct when I make the new wheelarch section and there might be some adjustment of the current side rods position possible to reduce the difference, which is approximately 1″. The wheelarch section will require timber that I don’t have, so I have ordered this for delivery early in the new year.
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23/12/2019
Painted the two inner sides of the alloy glazing bars with grey top coat. Cut the next side rod extension out of Iroko and measured and trimmed the next section of perimeter rail today.
20/8/2019
Finished preparing the rearward entrance pillar cladding. Made a new lower section to match the curved profile of the lower side rod. This can’t be fitted until the lower frame rail is in place for the first bay so I selected a suitable piece of new timber and soaked it in preservative.
I then removed the remains of the steel gusset brackets that connect the floor to the lower removable section of the side rods from the next pillar rearwards from the door to enable replacement of the lower section and fitting of the new lower frame rail. One of the bolts through the body bearer was seized in the steel insert in the bearer so had to be drilled out, I drilled a 7/64″ pilot hole with my Proxxon mini drill then proceeded to enlarge with a bigger drill and I managed to break two bits in the process. However at this point I was able to punch the bolt out so all is ok.
Next I cleaned and primed the underneath of floor under the first bay back to the chassis frame so this can be painted silver before I fit the chassis rail.
Finally today I drilled the fixing holes in the new brackets for the lower side rod. So once the floor is painted this can all be reassembled.