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Re: 7161 Chassis restoration

PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2020 5:44 pm
by MikeWard
Nice, that looks awesome! :thumbsup: :dmcdoors:

Re: 7161 Chassis restoration

PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2020 5:49 pm
by Darrenre
Brilliant! Super timing too with time off

Re: 7161 Chassis restoration

PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 2:39 pm
by cis6409
Looks really well! :mrgreen:

Re: 7161 Chassis restoration

PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 3:10 pm
by cis6409
How did you get on with the re tapping of the threads, did you use anything in the end to stop them being filled up.??

It's gonna be very satisfying putting parts onto a lovely clean sorted frame 8-)

Cheers
Shane

Re: 7161 Chassis restoration

PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 8:31 pm
by bandit
I remember that stage well, it’s nice to start putting all those nice clean new & refurbed parts on

Re: 7161 Chassis restoration

PostPosted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 6:22 am
by eric
Thanks Chaps, Certainly exciting, been hunting various pipe clips today, the little plastic ones which many broke upon removal.

cis6409 wrote:How did you get on with the re tapping of the threads, did you use anything in the end to stop them being filled up.??

It's gonna be very satisfying putting parts onto a lovely clean sorted frame 8-)

Cheers
Shane


Alex filled each one with fire cement so hopefully I should just need to drill out with a smaller drill then it should crumble away and just need clearing. I am hoping and told this should just need clearing through with a bolt/tap rather than re-grind of the threads. We had a count up and there are 30 or so. Number one is to get it on its edge so I can get better access.

Once one is done I should be fine :)

Re: 7161 Chassis restoration

PostPosted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 2:47 pm
by cis6409
Great to hear good stuff..
Might do the same idea myself when my chassis gets to that point :thumbsup:

Re: 7161 Chassis restoration

PostPosted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 9:38 pm
by bandit
cis6409 wrote:Great to hear good stuff..
Might do the same idea myself when my chassis gets to that point :thumbsup:


I’m sure that might work fine, but if it was mine, I would just screw a load of ‘shitty’ bolts into the captive nuts before having it done. Then you can just undo them once you get it back & it’s sound

Re: 7161 Chassis restoration

PostPosted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 1:03 pm
by eric
Bolts would work but various sizes and some of them are big ones..... I think the issue is most folk are distant from their chassis when it goes from the "fixer" to the galvanizers so finding bolts isn't something which is easy vs a few quid for 2kg of fire cement.

I will take some pics and do the first one tonight, I have been putting it off tbh.

Re: 7161 Chassis restoration

PostPosted: Sun Oct 25, 2020 10:14 am
by eric
So its now in the shed and on stands.

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Quick thread clear.

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Fire Cement comes out fairly easily.

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Jobs a good un..

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Slowly putting the easier new fittings on.

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I am keeping my sanity by doing a hole and then adding something shiny :)

I realise I will have to do the Fuel Accumulator clearance now and get the hard bits in there fitted as a lot of the pipework will cover it.