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[Cookiez]

Inside floor pan all seam sealed

 

 

 

 

 

 

Behind Dashboard Area All Seam Sealed

 

 

 

 

Parcel shelf seat belt spreader plates

3mm Stainless plate

 

 

 

 

Fitted

 

 

 

Bonnet slam panel holes welded up

 

 

 

Cross member / Inner wing support holes welded up

 

 

 

 

Wing / A Panel support changed to a thicker one

 

 

 

Selection of stuff removed from the shell so far

 

Edited by Cookiez, 26 September 2019 - 03:21 PM.

[johnR]

just read through your post - what a same about Ruby 1 after all that work - maybe a brighter colour next time!
Great to see your attention to detail - at least the experience of the first build and the shell to refer to must be useful - I'd have welded up a lot of the holes on my shell but by the time l'd stripped it all down I'd forgotten which ones I needed and which I didn't.
I'm surprised you're not having a permanent foglight - especially after being rear-ended before?
Keep up the good work,
JohnR

[James_eaton_thewholething]

How come you have a A panel and wing support. Was it a standard thing or something you have added ?

[Cookiez]

Hi John

 

Thanks for the comments about Ruby

Jack wants to have Ruby Two the same colours as Ruby,

I could do with something to make more noticeable, although I'm not sure Jack will be using her in the same way as he did before.

 

James

 

Id never seen a support fitted before, It was a friend who painted Ruby who told me to fit one.

 

This is the one that came on the new Heritage shell

 

Not really doing much

While I'd got the stainless plate out doing the seat belt mounts I made some to replace the standard ones

Edited by Cookiez, 26 September 2019 - 03:23 PM.

[James_eaton_thewholething]

I wonder why they decided to do that. It would make sense possibly on the sports pack shell. Ah well atleast it's not coming apart at that seam.

[alchall]

Don't think it's anything new, my Haynes mini restoration manual includes a reference to it and that's quite old, certainly pre-dates sports pack.

 

I fitted the small ones on mine but I did weld it on both sides whereas it looks like heritage only spot welded on the lip.

[Ben_O]

I wonder why they decided to do that. It would make sense possibly on the sports pack shell. Ah well atleast it's not coming apart at that seam.

i believe it is to stop the join from flexing

[James_eaton_thewholething]

I wonder why they decided to do that. It would make sense possibly on the sports pack shell. Ah well atleast it's not coming apart at that seam.

i believe it is to stop the join from flexing

Fair enough. is it something they started doing on later cars ?

[Ben_O]

 

 

I wonder why they decided to do that. It would make sense possibly on the sports pack shell. Ah well atleast it's not coming apart at that seam.

i believe it is to stop the join from flexing

Fair enough. is it something they started doing on later cars ?

 

I don't think so. Mine is 1984 and has them

[James_eaton_thewholething]

Mine didn't have them it's a 1991

Edited by James_eaton_thewholething, 06 November 2015 - 03:26 PM.

[Ben_O]

Mine didn't have them it's a 1991

Perhaps someone had replaced the wings and/or A panels in the past and not replaced them?

[Cookiez]

I was having a close look at the spot welds on the bottom of the flitch

 

All looked ok until I had a poke about

 

Removed the primer to reveal a split caused by spot welding yet again

 

 

 

More seam sealing, Will this ever end

One step forward & one back this weekend

I will have to redo the inside flitch areas after finding the crap spot welds above 

 

 

 

Air vent blocking plates fitted, there were originally on Ruby, Feels nice bolting a few bits of her back on here.

 

Edited by Cookiez, 26 September 2019 - 03:24 PM.

[Cookiez]

Stainless Clinch Nuts in Indicators & Headlamp Bowls

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Routing the Petrol Pipe

This is the easy side, the newer floor pans have a channel through the front heel section

 

 

On the passenger side I want to use the larger strengthening section to keep the brake line out of contact with the floor

If I do this I run into a problem on the Drivers side heel section

 

I'm going to cut out this area and put in s channel section so as it keeps the brake line symmetrical to the petrol line

 

 

Edited by Cookiez, 26 September 2019 - 03:25 PM.

[Cookiez]

Channel section cut and welded in

 

 

View from inside after a bit of primer

 

 

View from the underside

 

 

 

Now onto welding up the holes for the left hand drive wipers

 

Edited by Cookiez, 26 September 2019 - 03:26 PM.

[Dmini7]

Awesome thread dude! Such a shame what happened I'm gutted for you! But I'm sure this one will be just as good if not better. Keep up the good work