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Cleggy's Spyder Rebuild 17 07 09


Cleggy the Spyder Man

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see you guys tonight  :t-up:
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Thanks Dave and Tony for your help tonight - could not have done it without you  :t-up: was good to get heads together

good progress made tonight - Tony and I managed to get the rear axle bolted up ready for when Dave arrived

then it was a matter of lifting the front bodywork section into place, we soon however realised that there was a small section of the jig that needed to be lopped off with the angle grinder and also that the fron t suspension was let too low after having the adjusters fitted

10 minutes later with an angle grinder and a jack for th adjusters the body was being trial fitted

good news - the new floorpan edges are spot on and the body now sits much more level than previous -

bad news - the body is still sitting high on one side at the front, so looks like I have some adjustment of the tub to do at some point

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flintstones, meet the flintstones !!!

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another update tomorrow - thanks again chaps

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phoenix will get taken to bits again  :laugh:  but it was nice to see the body sat back on if it was only temporarily  :love:
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your new avatar is orrible!!!!!!!!!!! :laugh:

Oh Really  :p

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after a session messing about with seat heights midweek I have decided to lower the seat height which means some extra fabrication on the pans - I rather amusingly at the time spent 15 minutes sitting on a stack of floor tiles trying to determine where my head would sit when plonked in the seat - glad it was just me and Jago in the workshop and that no photographic evidence exists  :blush:  :laugh:

after thinking about it for a few nights I decided to weld on some cross pieces of 25 x 25 mm (not done yet) and then to make up some lowering framework for the seat

first job to decide on the angle and cut four identical pieces to size - off to my best friend (apart from Mr Angle Grinder) Mr Chop Saw - cannot believe what short work this machine makes of cutting up metal

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then using a good flat tile on me trestle stands make up the first piece using that as a sample to ensure all the other angles remain the same

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then to the other end

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all four pieces spot on

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showing how the seats will sit onto the framework when welded up onto the chassis - this things gonna weigh a ton  :laugh: gonna need more than 50 bhp  :suspect:

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gonna need more than 50 bhp  :suspect:

Use your Westy engine  ;)  ;)  :p  :p  :laugh:  :laugh:

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:laugh:  maybe not

tonights job see the front lowered floor pan support going in - my main concern was again matching up both sides so that you could look across from the side of the car and see that a perfect straight line through

as I was using one piece for each side I decided to clamp on one long piece underneath - to this I simply tacked on a small bit of box section either end so that it went below the centre tunnel - I then measure from the the rear hat 730mm forwards on both sides

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cut the bits to size and tack in place

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welded along top

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and finally the money shot - do they line up?

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yup thank the lordy  :laugh:

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