Hello, it looks like a car!
Monday, January 19th, 2009After months putting up with piles of bits, and then a month or so of having something that looked like a climbing frame, we’ve fitted the running gear and suddenly it looks like a car.
It finally looks like a car!
Getting the running gear onto the chassis was a case of lowering the chassis onto the axle and seating the springs, holding them in place (so they couldn’t shift backward or forward) with ratchet straps whilst getting the trailing arms / radius arms seated, then compressing the springs and tightening the arm bolts. To compress the springs, you can use spring compresser (obviously), a ratchet strap around the axle and the bodywork, or do what we did and drop a car ramp onto the whole thing.
Compressing the rear springs. Note my important job as a weight.
That was about it this weekend – we did a touch more painting, put the steering wheel together, pressure-washed the engine (again), cleaned up some parts, scratched our heads about where to put the petrol tank and offered the winch bumper to the front to see how much we need to take off the chassis (about eight inches, distressingly).
And we played silly buggers =]
Vroom vroom!
The next job will be getting the engine and gearbox mounted, some time around the end of the month. Stay tuned!
