Official Off Topic Discussion Thread #1

[Ulu]

On and off . . . On and off . . . On and off . . .

I had to hoist the body to trim bits of the fiberglass firewall, twice. I had to trim fender bolts. Eventually the body is set down. Almost. I was hoisting the nose by a steel body brace, which hits the frame. Once I remove that I can let it down the last 1/2”.


The hoist is back in the boatyard. I played garage rodeo, things are straightened up a bit, and now we can park in the garage again.


The camera distorts everything. This is just enough room to park a Camry.

 

[Ulu]

Clearance in the garage was pretty tight, and I had this body cart sticking out in the way. It was oversized and so I put together a smaller one and rearranged the garage a little more.

I also pushed the Volkswagen out into the cul-de-sac, turned it 180, and put it back in the garage nose first.



So I made this silver bracket to reinforce the body back when there wasn’t much frame on this car, and it was a real convenient point to hoist the fiberglass body.



Unfortunately it sits on the frame and must be removed, also every wire in the front is zip tied to it right now. Fortunately it will be completely unnecessary now that I have a frame to bolt the body to.