Review Of ToDo List
/Made a list of things still to do with the chassis:
- Fuel tank support straps
- Spare wheel support strap
- Roll bar rear corner plates
- Suspension turret end plates
- Braces from tubes 'M' to tubes 'K' to brace the trailing arms mounts better
- Extra two front diff mountings
- Seat mounting tubes on floor
- Seat back extra triangulation in centre above diff
- Handbrake mountings
- Tunnel spars - One behind gearlever and one near handbrake
- Footwell end plates
- Tunnel side plates
- Tunnel top plate
- Triangulation tubes at front near engine mounts and top rear wishbones mounts
- Close tops of trailing arm mountings (May leave open or removable for access)
- Front wishbone - lower rear mountings to be strengthened
- Plate to be added at front of chassis between tubes LD and E
- Close ends of all tubes (6x1" and 2x3/4")
- Tunnel floor - small triangulation tubes needed where front and middle tunnel sections join
- Steering rack mountings
- Radiator mountings
- Steering column mountings
- Pedal mountings
- Brake master cylinder mountings
- Clutch master cylinder mountings
- Scuttle assembly (Removable but brackets need welded to chassis)
- Various other little brackets and fixings for bodywork, brake systems etc
- Seat belt anchorage plates and welded nuts
As you can see there is much to do. It is worth making a list like this from time to time otherwise you tend to start messing about aimlessly rather than working systematically through a list of "chores" like this.
From the list I have completed 1,2,4,5 and 6 today. Here are some pictures to prove it:
Extra tube welded to brace tube M against tube K3/4. This was done to remove the reliance on the weld strength between tube M and tube K1/2.
Extra diff brackets welded in place (please excuse the very spattery welds - I didn't clean the weld sites properly beforehand as I couldn't use the grinder so late at night...shhhh!) It's also CO2 that I'm using so it's a bit spattery anyway.
End cover on the suspension turret. This is 3mm plate for extra strength. I felt that it was important to retain tubes W1 and W2 at the top here as otherwise in the event of a rear corner shunt, the tube might break away and go straight through the back of my head!!
Fuel tank supports and spare wheel support. I'm not sure if I'll carry a spare wheel or not but it makes sense to add the support anyway just in case.
That's it for this weekend, hopefully I will continue with my list during the coming week.