The rebuild begins......again.
Discussion
VPower said:
Mark
I'm only up the road in Dorking and could with a bit of notice borrow the small HIAB and some slings from work.
On the other hand, one of ten to help hand lift sounds like a photo opportunity not to miss!
Can you handle the parking for 10 Cerbs?
Steve
I'm in Dorking too. =) Gotta love the giant cock on the rounderbout, if you see a Paris Blue Chim with SP6 lighting falling off the road just trying to get to the shops, that'll be me!I'm only up the road in Dorking and could with a bit of notice borrow the small HIAB and some slings from work.
On the other hand, one of ten to help hand lift sounds like a photo opportunity not to miss!
Can you handle the parking for 10 Cerbs?
Steve
If you need a hand I'd be happy to help too, or just a bit of company and some spanner handing!
Thanks for your offer of help! The body lift is happening next Thursday and Friday. I know most people will be at work but anyone is more than welcome to pop along in the evening and have a gander at how we are getting on. PM me if you want to come along and will give you my address.
markh1 said:
Thanks for your offer of help! The body lift is happening next Thursday and Friday. I know most people will be at work but anyone is more than welcome to pop along in the evening and have a gander at how we are getting on. PM me if you want to come along and will give you my address.
Change of plan! The body lift is now happening on Tue and Wed. People are still welcome to come along.This is the one I bought...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SIP-AIRMATE-3hp-50-Litre-V-T...
It is fairly small but has a good flow rate and is more than enough to power the air gun and ratchet.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SIP-AIRMATE-3hp-50-Litre-V-T...
It is fairly small but has a good flow rate and is more than enough to power the air gun and ratchet.
Well with the very kind assistance of D14AYS (Dean) and Ridds (Matt) plus of course plasticman we got a hell of a lot done! In summary the body was lifted, initially with the engine crane and with the reasurance of Dean we hung the body from the roof of the garage.
A few things I learnt along the way were....
Make sure you take the handbrake off its mounts otherwise it will tear through the fibreglass when you jack the body up!
Make sure you empty the gearbox oil before you pull the prop shaft off!
The actual removal of the body and chassis was not that a slow job, the bit the takes the time is all the prep before like taking the interior out and removing all the body bolts.
We were originally going to pull the chassis out with the engine in situ but we decided to lift it out first. We had the luxury of being able to cut away the front of the chassis to help get it out!
When we took the engine out we discovered that my car as previously suspected, is a GT model. This explains the slightly different shock mounts. It may also mean that that the eninge internals are slightly different.
We put a piece of 2x4 into the boot and used this as a beam to lift the back of the body with the engine crane.
We then strapped the car to the roof with large ratchet straps
Plasticman and Ridds pulling the old chassis out
The diff removed and sort of cleaned
New chassis slide under the body and then the body was lowered.
This was all done on Tuesday. I will take some pictures of the work that was done yesturday.
I must say a sincere thanks to Dean, Matt and Dave it would not have been possible to do it in the time we did without their help!
A few things I learnt along the way were....
Make sure you take the handbrake off its mounts otherwise it will tear through the fibreglass when you jack the body up!
Make sure you empty the gearbox oil before you pull the prop shaft off!
The actual removal of the body and chassis was not that a slow job, the bit the takes the time is all the prep before like taking the interior out and removing all the body bolts.
We were originally going to pull the chassis out with the engine in situ but we decided to lift it out first. We had the luxury of being able to cut away the front of the chassis to help get it out!
When we took the engine out we discovered that my car as previously suspected, is a GT model. This explains the slightly different shock mounts. It may also mean that that the eninge internals are slightly different.
We put a piece of 2x4 into the boot and used this as a beam to lift the back of the body with the engine crane.
We then strapped the car to the roof with large ratchet straps
Plasticman and Ridds pulling the old chassis out
The diff removed and sort of cleaned
New chassis slide under the body and then the body was lowered.
This was all done on Tuesday. I will take some pictures of the work that was done yesturday.
I must say a sincere thanks to Dean, Matt and Dave it would not have been possible to do it in the time we did without their help!
Edited by markh1 on Thursday 30th July 08:25
amazing what some good expert knowledge can do to help, eh?
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