The Roadster body work is now nearing completion. The structure is complete and the outer skin is replaced with the car being made ready for the paint shop. Henrik Jacopson from Denmark was kind enough to come over with his special rear axle Torsion bar pre-tensioning tool MR 3336 and help me put back the rear axel on the roadster body shell. First we made another special tool MR3338, which Henrik forgot to take. We made this out of plywood. Much easier and does the job of checking that the axel is fitted at the correct height. Then we used driving block MR1578 to knock the torsion bars into the right position. We had one setback with one of Mike Tennant's re-vulcanised silent blocks. It turned out it was loose in the Ω shaped housing, so pre-tensioning seemed futile. We fixed it in position by drilling two holes through the housing and the outer ring, tapping tread and fixing it in position with two M8 bolts.
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Aug 04 Final stages of lead filling completed. Seats at upholsterer.
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Sept 04 Trial assembly of all body parts |
April 05 Lee is preparing Roadster for paint shop.
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June 05 Manufacture of front windscreen. material supplied by Brasscraft.
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November 05 Manufacture of wooden hood frame parts by Manningtree Cabinet makers
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 Click to see the colour. We will pick the darker one |
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August 06 The inside cavities are now sprayed
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last pictures Uploaded 7th August 2006