BChild
SIP - enough with the mods!!!!
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So I'm working on a car and it needs "repairs" that need to to be stripped to a shell
My garage is narrow so I can really maximise space to work around the car by parking it on a moveable "Dolly" that can move in any direction
So this week I got to the point where I could strip the car no more - suspension wheels and brakes were all still under the car so I could move it and they all needed to come off
So 11m of 40 x 40 x 2 mm box section sourced collected and brought home (in the Mrs BC's car)
Knocked up the basic frame and welded on 5mm plates for the wheels to sit on
At the time I didn't have the wheels but then I got them (spot the odd one out ordered two braked and two unbraked)
They are rated I think to around 250kgs each (four on a 1000 kg wheelie bin normally)
Drilled the plates to suit the wheels - yeah would have been so much easier to have done the plates before I welded them to the frame but where there is a will there's a way
Then bolt the wheels on and it rolls - want to make the car supports removable on this one so that once the car is finished I can take wheels and body supports off and store it against a wall - it's the third one I've made in 5 years....... The round tube is a nice size to insert 40mm box into so 4 of those will provide the location points for the sill supports
Get the car in the air
Dolly underneath
Miggy miggy let's get busy
I'm supporting the shell on the sills because the inner sill was good and the outer sills have been replaced and it's way better condition than some of the chassis rails
Moment of truth was raising the car up and removing the supports
And from the side
Once the crossmember, suspension, hubs and brakes is removed from the front and the axle and brakes plus four link and suspension is removed from the rear it should be easy to move about and all the areas I want to get at are a nicer working height
My garage is narrow so I can really maximise space to work around the car by parking it on a moveable "Dolly" that can move in any direction
So this week I got to the point where I could strip the car no more - suspension wheels and brakes were all still under the car so I could move it and they all needed to come off
So 11m of 40 x 40 x 2 mm box section sourced collected and brought home (in the Mrs BC's car)
Knocked up the basic frame and welded on 5mm plates for the wheels to sit on
At the time I didn't have the wheels but then I got them (spot the odd one out ordered two braked and two unbraked)
They are rated I think to around 250kgs each (four on a 1000 kg wheelie bin normally)
Drilled the plates to suit the wheels - yeah would have been so much easier to have done the plates before I welded them to the frame but where there is a will there's a way
Then bolt the wheels on and it rolls - want to make the car supports removable on this one so that once the car is finished I can take wheels and body supports off and store it against a wall - it's the third one I've made in 5 years....... The round tube is a nice size to insert 40mm box into so 4 of those will provide the location points for the sill supports
Get the car in the air
Dolly underneath
Miggy miggy let's get busy
I'm supporting the shell on the sills because the inner sill was good and the outer sills have been replaced and it's way better condition than some of the chassis rails
Moment of truth was raising the car up and removing the supports
And from the side
Once the crossmember, suspension, hubs and brakes is removed from the front and the axle and brakes plus four link and suspension is removed from the rear it should be easy to move about and all the areas I want to get at are a nicer working height