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Help needed, I need advise please, who runs buckets in there moggy with track rails, which one fit? I’ve tried three sets and no luck, I like these but they have side wings, can anyone shed light on which production seat fits the moggy thanks in advance.

When’s a door not a door?

When it’s a jar.....
Sorry been in shop all weekend, still started polishing all stainless door ware, dry assembly of all door fittings, changed all non metric fixings to metric, re tap and fitting stainless fixings.

Defiantly need shorter bolts, them being too long, need to order some of those

Passenger door lock assembly, steering boss assembly, all waiting for other bits. Ordered new steering column, double uj, and various bits for control.

fixwheelmad wrote: ↑Sat May 01, 2021 7:40 pm Help needed, I need advise please, who runs buckets in there moggy with track rails, which one fit? I’ve tried three sets and no luck, I like these but they have side wings, can anyone shed light on which production seat fits the moggy thanks in advance.

See photo, problem is the wings, need a narrow bucket essentially

Ok today was a good day, lots of little stuff done but all needed, first found my motolita steering wheel ring, assembled and stuck on steering column, awaiting correct column and new uj for linkage, but essentially a step nearer.

Indicator stalk, re wired and drilled and tapped for new Ss fixings, new sheath and heat shrink, awaiting connectors to loom, don’t have any six way....
Also polished the regulator cover, looking good..

Main job today was testing my door internal fab, this is the navigator side, although I’ve shown some switch gear there will be a bunch more. Still need to decide wether I have fixed or sliding windows, split half or one piece, up in the air at the mo, need to order some lexan 5mm sheet for all side windows. The ally sheet used was some scrap, I will used prime 1.5mm sheet for final build, drivers side will just be lower part only. And you may see an mistake, as they say measure once or twice, any how my dimple die and cutter seem to be swapped in the box, got some wrong!

Dimple dies from www.dimple_dies_uk.co.uk Don’t buy any Chinese crap, stick to their takeaways, these are expensive but don’t fold or damage.

Some more images, including the switch gear panel.....

Another good day, picked up loads of shineybits from the metal finishers, sorted how the carbon fibre wing mirrors will work, and sorted the internal twin washer bottles. Also the rear lights and number plate light are now fixed, need to make the looms. Got home to a pile of bits for me to sort tomorrow, new steering column, dzus fittings, omex sensors and lighting loom bits.

Water bottle holder, awaiting bottles.....

Rear light and number plate light, need to make the wiring tails now....

Another good day, mainly soldering and loom making, received are steering column and UJ, so that’s next on the plan, also twin pump and filter setup, need to get some grp work done, if only for setup of control and switch gear. Set up and got working the Brantz rally timer, also swapped cables internally to come from back of computer and plugged up holes, just tidy’s my dash a bit, made my own dzus brackets, sorry consider £10/bracket a little much, and loom for both Omex sensors.

Dzus brackets, omex sensors and facet fuel pumps...

Dzus brackets for boot lid (glass and drilled metal inner) and bonnet all grp, both have refurb hinges with new chrome and drilled for pip pins, have bimetallic need some aerospace stainless ones, again cheapest I’ve found are £20 each, keep looking....

More...

Steering rack arrived, as did the UJ, need to sort the seating and pedal position, it’s all over the place, got everything I need to do the job. Started checking the bits of suspension I have, condition and so forth. One side good the other bad, going o get a refurb exchange steering rack, not worth me refurbing for £45 exchange just hand in my old one pay the money job done! New discs, calliper bits, new gp4 ally hubs, bearings etc, awaiting.....

Max deflection in steering rack UJ is recommended 30% which rough checking I’m with in the tolerance. Any one want perfectly good escort front hubs and a pair of 2.8i discs?

Although I’ve ordered a gp4 forest quaife rear axle, it’s about 6 months away, that said, I’m stripping the KOLN axle I have and using that as a setup axle, aim is to ship to the builder with all final brackets etc. Condition seems fair for an old axle, need to remove the diff just to make it easier to move around.

Have to post, been a long time since one my roof moved, fitted and worked, after three hours of drilling all the studs out, the roof finally concertinaed. Will replace all with stainless dome bolts, derylin washers and stainless nylock. Need to shape the roof battens, adjust an few rods, fit doors, windows etc. Very happy with the work today, going to change to mohair in black, so have a new burgundy roof for sale, NOS btw.

Fuel pump rig setup, need to sort the plumbing tho, the pumps are place holders, they are too high psi for the volumex, need swapping.always run two pumps, one using one at any time.

Front leg and disc brake and calliper setup, new disc ford 2.8i, calliper princess 4 pot, awaiting group 4 hub, could not wait so assembled..some images

Inner calliper seals fit a treat , outer leave a little to the imagination, need to source some that fit...