measure three times and then c*ck it up

We struggled over the weekend to fit the roll bar, you have to drill three holes each side all on the same axis, these holes are 51mm through the boot box, 51mm through the grp flange and 12.5 mm through the thick metal plate that is welded to the chassis. A complicating factor (aside from the usual contradictory advice in Mr Manual) is that the GRP is of course not very symmetrical and so drilling at the same point on the boot box won't drill at the EXACTLY the same point on the chassis on each side. So measuring out took some time.


We were therfore rather disappointed that roll bar didn't fit neatly into the holes cut out in the GRP flanges.

Can't test the fit of the 40mm metal bolts yet that hold it on as inside of roll bar was a bit rusted and we needed to get an M12 x 1.75 tap to clean out the thread.

Good old ebay gave us a suitable tap set, and we have now cleared the threads but Chrissy's desire to crash meant we came in before trying it out.

We have fixed the horn, but the fog light still doesn't work.

We have a (very) long list of other things to do....