I have spent a lot of time recently refurbing lots of small bits which is all very well but as they say round here that won't get the baby a new apron. It's time to get serious and sort all the bodywork out including the rotten old bulkhead. I didn't expect this to be easy but equally I didn't expect it to be the nightmare it's becoming. I started by getting the roof out of the shed. This had been put away about 6 years ago and forgotten about. I have a strange way of imagining these things are better than they are. In my mind it was in quite nice order and wouldn't need much work.
It looks ok from a distance but I can tell you it isn't. Now my brother in law and me took that off easily in just a few minutes all those years ago but due to social distancing he wasn't going to be able to help this time. This leaves myself, my wife with her her slipped discs and my skinny but very willing 12 yr old lad.
So we struggled it round to the garage and got it lifted into place. It started to look good and briefly I was encouraged. Then I squeezed the windscreen into place.
Look at that gap at the top. Now I don't remember that being there when I took it to pieces but as I haven't altered anything that would cause it I suppose it must have been.
It doesn't look too bad if you don't look too close and squint a bit.
The only solution I can find to this is to raise the bulkhead on one side.
Now that solves a lot of problems but creates another.
The bolt hole in the bulkhead foot is now a mile out. It's got to be replaced so I can move it a bit but as we'll see later i've got more problems.
Where the support comes from the chassis to the footwell you can only just see the bolt holes. The footwells need to be replaced as well but it's still well out.
The other thing is that i'm sorting one problem out but I have no idea if i'm creating more for later.
