have acquired a 1tonne chain hoist for the princely sum of feckall.. :D that along with the 2legged chainset I have means that I can now shift chassis around & turn it over etc rapidly and simply.

I've done a bit more Welding on it over the weekend. Bloody ran out of gas. SOds law it had to happen 1st day of easter weekend :mad: Made some angle iron out of 5mm plate and reinforced the springhanger with it, using the Stick welder to weld them up.
 
Updated costs so far

Total spend to date:
Trailer Hire Free
VAn Hire Free
Chassis £100
Fuel to collect Chassis £45
MacAllister 115mm Angle Grinder. £20
20 x 1mm cutting discs £12
rental for gas bottle & bottle refill £96
5Kg roll of welding wire £16 (£32 if you include the one BB got as well :))
REplacement Salisbury axle diff pan £10
Replacement rear door £95


Total so far about £400
 
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Updated costs so far

Total spend to date:
Trailer Hire Free
VAn Hire Free
Chassis £100
Fuel to collect Chassis £45
MacAllister 115mm Angle Grinder. £20
20 x 1mm cutting discs £12
rental for gas bottle & bottle refill £96
5Kg roll of welding wire £16 (£32 if you include the one BB got as well :))
REplacement Salisbury axle diff pan £10
Replacement rear door £95


Total so far about £400



getting a fender back on the road....priceless..:cool:
 
Got sent to the workshop to collect the tent for the weekend. So I thought I'd sneak an hr on the welder.. and welded the spring hanger back on. A bit OTT but to make sure it stays on, I'd previously made and welded an angle piece to each side, made out of 4mm steel.

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That fooker int going nowhere.. Just need to weld the top where it joins the chassis.
 
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Did a bit more yesterday. Finally getting to the end of all the patching. This corrosion where the AFrame crossmember sits on the chassis is typical of Crap British design and engineering. Mud sits in the dip and rots the fecker out. So I'm doing a bit of a redesign.

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Spring hanger back on.. ten times stronger than the original was.

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Well all the patching and repairing is done,
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All that's needed now is the rear crossmember from Pressbrake, then cut the rotten arse off and weld noo crossmember on. To make sure everything goes back where it's supposed to I've made a jig to line everything up.


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Had a busy day today As I bought these this morning from a farm sale and auction.

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Updated costs so far

Total spend to date:
Trailer Hire Free
VAn Hire Free
Chassis £100
Fuel to collect Chassis £45
MacAllister 115mm Angle Grinder. £20
20 x 1mm cutting discs £12
rental for gas bottle & bottle refill £96
5Kg roll of welding wire £16 (£32 if you include the one BB got as well )
REplacement Salisbury axle diff pan £10
Replacement rear door £95
pair of ex Military front doors £78.


Total so far about £478.
 
As I'm awaiting delivery of the noo HD rear crossmember. I thought I'd make a start on renovating the replacement Bulkhead I purchased several years ago :eek: & which has sat in the workshop doing feckall.

The pics of it are here, if you've not seen a bulkhead before???
Bulkhead Rebuild Photos by redhand010 | Photobucket

Oh and reason why half the pics include a steel rule, is because I need to know dimensions when I start patching it up..

Have cut several rot patches away, today. But you'll have to wait for them pics, because I forgot to take me fone with me today..
 
Nice to see you kept it ;)

Beg steal or borrow the bits to make a county ;)

I wont tell you how much a neighbour sold his nice 110 county fer a couple of years ago when the bulkhead rotted . :(

ok I will . About £700 :eek: :D
 
Crossmember has arrived from Pressbrake.

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Just waiting for the instruction manual to arrive So I can figure out where it all goes :eek: :D
 

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