Found a bit of time to dress down the welds on the rear cross member and then weld on the final parts wihich are part of the reinforcements for the rear suspension mounts... Next step is to clean this section up and get it painted.
Welding Update
Steering Column Update
Here's the modified steering column and Lifeline weld-on boss all machined and ready to be welded up: The top hat acts as the bearing carrier for a roller bearing that supports the column inside an outer tube. It needs to be removable to replace the bearing and will be held in place with a roll... Continue Reading →
Update
So bit of progress in the last month... moving further back under the car I didn't like the look of this: So chopped it out... Then decided that the bottom of the box section also needed to be repaired, so chopped that and welded in a repair section. Finally finished the welding off tonight. Getting... Continue Reading →
Getting Sideways in a 106…
...well not one of mine, but that's not the point. My wife bought me a trip to Gwynnespeed down in Gloucestershire last year, but getting down there has taken some planning. They've recently moved to a new venue and it was a first for me driving a 106 on gravel and that alone made the... Continue Reading →
Update
Finished the Fuel Cell Framing last week and it's now in a base coat of POR15. Since then I've been doing some tidying up elsewhere on the shell, such as removing the studs that had held on the fusebox. The heads of these are real rust traps in the wheel arches so there was some... Continue Reading →
Fuel Cell Location Framing
So given I have a bit of down time to contend with I thought I would update on progress. I have finally have come around to framing up where the fuel cell mounts. This is partly to make the mounting more secure under lateral loads and to offer better fitment for the cell container and... Continue Reading →
Every Little Bit
Removed some more surplus bracketry from the car - these were the rear seatbelt reinforced mounting points.
Machine Shop Part I
Dropped the revised drawings and the necessary parts in at One Off Engineering in Hyde during the week for them to machine the steering coumn and boss ready for welding. Once the columns is turned down and the boss bored out they're going to produce a special top hat spacer to my specification and then... Continue Reading →
Pub Meet
The North West regional members of the 106 Rallye Register meet the first Monday of each month at the Honey Bee in Wilmslow. It's always a nice chance to catch up with other owners and talk cars. We some times even turn up in Rallyes.
CAD Designs
I have all the parts for taking the column into a machine shop now, so I just needed to do some proper plans. They do a version of AutoCAD for Mac but I didn't fancy having to get my head around how to use that and initial experiments with other CAD backages like CADintosh showed... Continue Reading →
Bearing Arrival
The end of the Corsa steering column needs to be supported and due to the modifications I've had to source a needle bearing to fit the job. It's taken ages because the first supplier turned out not to have any stock despite saying that they did and the second managed to fudge the order and... Continue Reading →
Tidying Up
A little bit of tidying up to make things symmetrical. The section chopped out to make way for the fuel cell was cannabalised to provide the patch piece. Most difficult thing was getting the measurements right! Welded in Having removed the rear section and main hoopd, the roll cage is now fully out so I... Continue Reading →
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