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And talking of fluorescent lights...

 

I use a strip light as my worklamp. Its like daylight under the car with that under there! Turned it on today and it immediately stopped working. After some investigation it turned out to be wet inside, but not just wet. It was blue came slightly sticky. Turns out the radiator on the Wolseley has a slight leak and has been slowly dripping inside the light unit and burned a diode out by the look of itpost-19511-0-94159900-1512148583_thumb.jpg

Sods law.

Ah well, I sorted another light out and got to work. Years of having a leaky windscreen had rotted out not only the floorpan but also the dashboardpost-19511-0-86468300-1512148713_thumb.jpg

At least it gave me access to this bit of rotpost-19511-0-60931600-1512148776_thumb.jpg

Not the prettiest repair but it will be out of sightpost-19511-0-68978100-1512148833_thumb.jpg

So that's the passenger compartment of the car now finished and weather proofed. The only job left to do in there is to chop a section out of the top of the chassis rail to access the captive bolts on the drivers side of the gearbox crossmember. They unbolted fine but started spinning when it was time to put the crossmember back. post-19511-0-84260500-1512149075_thumb.jpg

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I moved on to the front of the main chassis rail. It looked solid enough and even with a good poking with a screwdriver I only made a couple of small holes.post-19511-0-68687700-1512155990_thumb.jpg

So I attacked the first hole with a wire brush on the grinder and it got bigger so cut it out furtherpost-19511-0-73696100-1512156076_thumb.jpg

But what to do about the rest? It is solid and would pass a test but it looks a mess. Patches on patches and some of it is quite thin. Not sure if that is due to rust or if they just used thin gauge steel but think i will cut it all out and start again.I want to fill it with wax after welding so may as well do a proper job rather that catch all the wax on fire in a couple of years when it would need welding again!

Made a plate to fit what I had cut out so far. Overkill?post-19511-0-65431400-1512156398_thumb.jpg

That's today's work done, might do some more tomorrow,

I'm actually enjoying this a little bit post-19511-0-05817200-1512156676_thumb.jpg

Here is what it looks like underneath...

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Bit more progress today

 

The front crossmember was rather ripepost-19511-0-22671300-1512583756_thumb.jpgpost-19511-0-83696200-1512583780_thumb.jpgpost-19511-0-01667100-1512583817_thumb.jpg

So I removed itpost-19511-0-51240100-1512583853_thumb.jpg

And made a new onepost-19511-0-86497600-1512583888_thumb.jpgpost-19511-0-34484300-1512583919_thumb.jpgpost-19511-0-50666500-1512583939_thumb.jpg

There was a patch on the drivers side chassis leg that somebody had put there years ago. Just clean up their pigeon shit welds then clean with wire wheel on the grinder, then paint. Front end will then be done.post-19511-0-00556300-1512584084_thumb.jpg

More holes... Oh well, I'll cut that off tomorrow and make a better one..

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Splendid work. I imagine there will be a que of people wanting first refusal once it's ready. I had my MO radiator completely re-cored and pressure tested &c by a local old boy one-man-band firm and it cost £190. Expensive, but it was a big old rad.

That's not cheap. I thought the re core on my Triumph Acclaim was dear at £120!

 

However, after some investigation it turns out it was the water pump leaking. I got the one on the Standard rebuilt in Wolverhampton by man in a shed for very reasonable price

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My chassis always went where the torsion bar is bolted through. Had it on Minors and Riley/Wolseley.

Used to bolt a 3"x 3" angle iron down the chassis about 3 ft long.

Let me be the first to refuse first refusal.

The plan was to sell it but I have put so many hours into it already I ought to run it for a bit. At least for next summer! What would it be worth? My hourly rate would be around 10p probably
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The plan was to sell it but I have put so many hours into it already I ought to run it for a bit. At least for next summer! What would it be worth? My hourly rate would be around 10p probably

 

Last one I bought cost £8 from Green Bros Scrapyard, there's houses on it now.

I do between 4 to 8 hours a day in the garage. My hourly rate has been zero for the last 17 years.

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I had one of these until recently. It became quite wayward and the reason was the radius rod had rotted through inside the rubber bush where it joins the chassis. Not spottable by the mot man, but could be nasty. The gear lever was weirdly short and the boot lid very heavy, mine had the early exposed hinges. I liked it.

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Yes I know about the bumpstops, the mounting on the other side was rotten but I remade it. This side is saveable I think. I don't have the rubbers though. I'm guessing that in normal usage I won't need them??

 

I'll chop off the extra shock mounts then

 

I know nothing of trunnions but I assume I put oil in the nipples, not grease?

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Grease the trunnions...............often.

The bottom one can* fall off, the torsion bar is perminently pulling down on it.

I used to carry a lump hammer and piece of chain to reattach it and chain it together to get home.

If the suspension is low I thinks there's an adjusting bolt on the lever at the rear of the torsion bar.

You can also knock the arm off the splines and reposition it if necessary.

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Done a little bit more on the Holeseley. Chopped the extra shock mount off and surprise, surprise I found a hole behind it. Tidied up the damaged area from a previous suspension collapse!post-19511-0-86802000-1513244065_thumb.jpg

Bump stop mount and inner wing turned out to be crispier than I thought too so I chopped it outpost-19511-0-20175500-1513244129_thumb.jpg

All my illusions about being able to sort this side of the car out without removing the wing are rapidly being eroded...

 

The wing is a mess anyway so I was only kidding myself!post-19511-0-84210200-1513244243_thumb.jpgpost-19511-0-01360100-1513244309_thumb.jpg

 

Ah well more welding. Not much else I can do on it in this cold anyway

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