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I must try and finish jobs in order, so i made a new pin for the leaf spring - now down to 4 leaves/1" block/middle hole on wishbone hangers. I was really pleased how my floorpans came out, just need to weld corners up and puddle weld in place. But i will finish suspension first.
Cool name Gary, ive been considering getting a couple of name plates 3d printed or lazer cut stainless plate, are you leaving the colour as is or coating in another colour.
Its not Trevor's old car (No 48) thats for sale they have just use a photo of his car as the primary picture.
The actual car for sale is in the later photos, although the same colour it's a totaly differant car
The current owner of Trevor's old car lives locally and was a bit up-set with what they have done
That said it is a very nice photo of a Sammio Spyder, would look nice on my web site
Looks great and a big morale boost to get to this stage. Just had a look back at your first posts to jog my memory as to how yours started and from those first pictures it has been a fair journey to get to this stage. With the better weather coming I hope you can find the time to keep plodding on. This is going to be some car once finished. Well done.
I'm not sure if this is the right rack? Also, the solid clamps don't have a locating hole?.
Are the black diagonally slotted plates needed with the solid mountings? My recollection is they are used to tighten up the rubber bushes, by clamping them against the rubber while tightening the clamps. My reading of this is that they aren't needed with solid rack mounts.
I made a big mistake by placing the black plates under the rack instead off under the chassis where they belong.
I could shift the rack from right to left by turning the steering wheel.
Don,t know about the alley mounts...
Looks as if your rack is different to mine and other Herald racks i,ve seen so far.
When fitting solid rack mounts you MUST either refit those plates or something else to stop the rack shifting from side to side as you turn the steering wheel.
I've pretty much kept this to myself due to the embarrassment factor, but when I fitted aluminium rack mounts about a year ago I left those plates out (not sure why).
Everything was fine - I took it for a blast along the narrow winding roads along the North Norfolk coast with my better half in the passenger seat - and we stopped for chips at Wells Next The Sea. Lovely.
When we set off for home, however, I pulled away from the roadside and turned the wheel, but the car kept going straight on. I stopped and then found that I could turn the steering about half a turn either way with no movement on the front wheels at all.
Taking a look underneath with wifey twirling the wheel I could immediately see what the problem was. The engine had leaked a bit of oil onto the rack mounts, lubricating them nicely, and breaking the friction that'd been the only thing holding the rack in place within the mounts. As I had no tools I had to call the RAC, and the man with a van came up with a simple solution and fitted a jubilee clip to each end of the rack outboard of the mounts, effectively filling the gap and keeping the rack where it ought to be.
The consequences of the rack working loose to the extent it did if we'd still been thrashing along those winding back roads doesn't bear thinking about.
That was supposed to be a temporary fix, but it's still there now and passed its last mot with them in place, so it can't be that bad, but I really ought to put those plates back in. If only that didn't need the engine lifting off its mounts...
