Roger's RRC: An update
Bo wrote:Roger,
When you have to do the other side, use a sharp wood chisel or similar to cut away the old bottom rubber, then cut through the spacer and bolt just above the lower washer with a junior hacksaw. It should just fall apart once you do this.
Good point - I think I had got 'target fixation' - at the start I had it in my mind to get the bolt out without damaging the spacers and everything followed from that - but I think it would have been a lot more efficient to just trash that one and replace it!
I don't think that the other side will be a problem - they are already free...
Roger
That D'OH moment!
Finally got the chassis to drop today - by releasing the FRONT anchor points (ties) that are inside the chassis rails parallel to the rearmost of the front seat mountings. D'OH! I never knew they existed! I had already removed the rear seatbelt ties and I thought they were all there were! Worrra TWONK! Still, at least once I had found them they came off easily enough
So - I managed to get the body high enough to get the bolt out and have a proper look at the rusty mounting. It looks like a relatively straight forward job so I am hoping to get it done soon:
So - I managed to get the body high enough to get the bolt out and have a proper look at the rusty mounting. It looks like a relatively straight forward job so I am hoping to get it done soon:
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Re: That D'OH moment!
I'll be glad when I can get back on this - just spent two hours lying on my back in the snow replacing BMW brake pipes. Can nobody build a brake system which doesn't corrode?
Well, at last I finished the brakes so hopefully that's the end of working on the BMW for a while (assuming it passes it's retest on Tuesday) and I will be back onto the RRC next week
I have the bulkhead mount in place now and the drivers footwell patched and re-enforced so all thats needed on the mounting is some strengthening webs and then I can rebuild the inner wing and I'm done with the welding.
Then all I have to do is install and commission the engine - how hard can that be eh?
I have the bulkhead mount in place now and the drivers footwell patched and re-enforced so all thats needed on the mounting is some strengthening webs and then I can rebuild the inner wing and I'm done with the welding.
Then all I have to do is install and commission the engine - how hard can that be eh?
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Clutch centerng tool ?
Clutch centerng tool, i know this will make you all cringe but while i was learing to drive had to replace clutch plates on a LWB landy, just sharpened an old broom handle to the right approx dimensions for a centering tool )
Jeep wrangler / Defender owner
If its not rattling its more than likely fallen off !
If its not rattling its more than likely fallen off !
By the twitching of my thumbs...
By the twitching of my thumbs,
Something EVIL this way comes:
Something EVIL this way comes:
Re: By the twitching of my thumbs...
Wahey! She runs!
davew wrote:Well done
Does that mean I can have my engine hoist back so I can finally move the spare engine and gearbox out of the way ?
You could have had it any time Dave - I thought that when you were ready you would ask... Would you like me to bring it one night this week (not Friday) or would Saturday morning do?
Oh- there is a long way to go yet...bandiflip wrote:and does that mean we wont have to read page 237 about it???...hehe !!
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