sound as a pound here, liking the in-depthness... like trade secrets.
sound as a pound here, liking the in-depthness... like trade secrets.
"let me drive.. i won't make a fool out of you"
I'll get something welded in then.Originally Posted by Paul
Cheers for the replies.
Mine cracked like this:
Since, I have either used ones with the bar, or welded mine together
TOP TIP: IF welding plates and mount together, then screw bolts into g'box first, tack it together (anything that can move). Otherwise you could weld it all together, then realise its was too close and bolts dont go in as nicely as they should do, putting excess strain on gearbox casting, or worse still not go in at all!!!
Last edited by Paul; 02-12-07 at 09:28 PM.
I'd just box over it with some 2/3mm plate.
Made a trip up to see Mr Astley yesterday afternoon to infect the workshop with my flu! muhuhahahahaha
Picked up some goodies aswell as having a catch up. Got my new 5 stud front hubs, plating kit, top plates, rear disc conversion plates and an f28 mount kit.
Seeing my mate tomorrow night at our christmas lunch and hopefully he's finished my bottom arms and tie bar brackets. I can them give him the rear mount to beef up then all can go to the powder coaters in the new year.
Its coming along, just slowly.....
im going to look forward to this being finished
Been staying at my folks over the festive period so it gave me a chance to have a little mince!
Main aim was to get the f28 mount welded in while my f28 was out of my other nova. So armed with my new air tools I set about removing the old mount! Considering it was my 1st time with a spot weld drill I was quite pleased. I missed the spot welds a couple of times lmao and went a little too deep but this will be covered up by strengthening plates anyways.
Grinded it smoother and just put a little paint on it...
Shaun, Steve and welding Chief Marty came round today and we set about lining the mount up!
This was made considerably easier for the fact I had a bare block to move round. So we slid in the engine 1st on the jack and got it on its mount. We then supported it with the engine brace. Gbox on jack next and slid under and a couple of bolts through the bellhousing to the block. Engine brace was then moved to support both engine and gbox better.
The rear mount was then bolted up and then we looked to adjust it level ready to tack the mount.
We found that the engine mount sat too high and was gonna sit on the bonnet. You can see in the pics how the end caps are higher on one side. When we done Shaun's nova we had to put a spacer in the mount to lower it down so we're gonna do the same on this one. I'll have a word with Chris next week about it and see if its right as both mounts are from his kit.
Anyway, mount all tacked in, engine and box out then finish welded.
Last edited by The Simps; 28-12-07 at 07:41 PM.
That your welding mate? If so its looking really well! You've come along way baby!
You not fitting a strengthening kit to this shell then Simps, only the plate has to go on before you weld the F28 mount on IIRC?