Boot box fixings

Three and a half hours each in the garage today, and some small but forward steps. First off we did a big tidy up. Then we did some finishing off on the spare wheel holder, filing out the body holes a bit so the large bolts that hold the spare wheel wouldn't fould on the body at all, and putting some convoluted tubing around the cables where they feed to the number plate lamp.

Here is a pic of the spare wheel in place, which for some reason the old geezer was really pleased with and 'er indoors had to be brought out to admire..









Chrissy then spent some time constructing a boot box securing mechanism that didn't involve reacing underneath the rear wheel arch with a spanner if you want to get the boot box off.



She put some rivnuts into some 3mm aluminium and then araldited those pieces onto the underpart of the body having drilled through both boot box and body, using some bolts to ensure the rivnuts were aligned with the drilled holes.



This is now complete, but Tim had to order on ebay some longerM5 bolts as we don't have any long enough to go all the way through the boot box into the body.


























Tim spent a lot of time sorting out the rest of the top covers for the transmission panels. For the rear panels, we used thread cutting M5 bolts that we got the factory to send us, as the heads on these should stand less pround and therefore enable the carbet to go over better. Another simple job that took a long time due to various trivial snags.






In the meantime here for our records are the things we have to do to get the car finished,

We have added 21 tasks since we last put a list up, so it doesn't feel like we are much closer to the end! But on the other hand, the key obstacle to pass now is the windscreen, and before we packed up today we made a start on that, by cutting some lengths of wood to 1010mm - to act as a sort of jig as recommended in the manual. We hope to get that on tomorrow.




fix fog light switch
Drill out dashboard
reversing light connection
Empty water system
Disconnect dashboard
Brake Lines template?
Drill and fettle Rivnut holes for scuttle in body
Drill and fettle Rivnut holes for scuttle in scuttle
nose cone rivnut location and drilling
Bonnet Grommets and lugs
nose cone grill
front indicators mount
front indicators wire up
Bonnet Locks?
Fix top Body
Nail on lower body
speedo wire up
handbrake rubber gaiter and bezel rivet in place
cut second hole in top transmission panel
split top transmission panel
splint top transmission panel
mount other solenoids
Scuttle wiring loom hole
spare wheel bracket
spare wheel retainer and fixing stud
number plate panel
number plate light
number plate light wiring
attach wing mirrors to pillars
interior panels
indicator repeaters - need double sided tape
Bleed Brakes
Attach windscreen pillars to scuttle
Fit windscreen
Fit Windscreen fillet
Side screens? when?
Wiper wheel boxes
wiper motor
wiper motor rods
wipers
washer jet
demister pipes
kick panel things - how?
Rewire up Dashboard
Nail and stick scuttle down
fit pedal box cover
VIN plate
boot box bolts
front cycle wings
interior mirror
dashboard trim
top cover aluminium panels
mark up carpets for cutting
carpets
crashpad
headlamps
refill water system
sva stuff
crash pad
rear crash pad retainery thing