Skidding Along

A good weekend and finally the new parallel trailing arm boxes are in. The boxes are not exactly as they were in the works car, but close enough. When I drew the boxes I added the lower arm mounting points to enable an accurate installation and I can simply blank them off. Once the boxes were in, fitting the rear jacking points was relatively easy. The hardest part was finding something in the car that was symmetrical to use as a datum, as between the drivers and passenger’s side there were great differences. All that needed doing to tie the job up was filling the holes in the floor, so I decided to cut both sides the same and put some skid plates on.

SEAT POSITION

Another job done and another job created. It seems that each time I complete one task I create another. When I actually looked at the floor around the seat rails it was wafer thin, out comes the grinder and cutting disk. With the seat position lowered and the new seat boxes in position I only need to replace the large hole in the floor with new metal and the floor is complete. I didn’t get time to install the rear suspension boxes into the bulkhead but the front sill jacking points are in.