Top work Ben JAMMIN!
Theirs no stopping you is their!
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Top work Ben JAMMIN!
Theirs no stopping you is their!
lol yes, i was getting snow blindness while sanding the roof. Gave up then.
non-sunroof shells ftw lol
I used to think SR stood for SunRoof model or StreetRacing
Oh not good mate, but least it's in good hands, as most wouldn't know how to deal with it.
weld the sunroof over FFS.
Nice work fella..... That doesnt look a big job to fix and at the end of the day most have a lot more! On another note I was once told their is no such thing as a dent.... "Its only a bend in the light" ;)
Nick.
In this case yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by peester
lol i wondered for ages, was one of my first car forum questions.Quote:
Originally Posted by NovaLad
I'm lucky in this way yes, but still very annoying.Quote:
Originally Posted by scott.parker
If i was gonna i'd swap the whole skin, but funk that! Plus my head linings already cut for the whole..lolQuote:
Originally Posted by craig green
No it should be, cut the small bit out weld clean new in, skim.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nick J
lol i didn't say dent.. I said ripple in the reflection...lol
Cheers guys.
Right remember my new strut brace? The plate on the brace are nice and thick. This gave me this problem..
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...n/IMG_8893.jpg
So after talking to my dad, we worked out counter boring it might lose some strength.. So we have a talk and a think and came up with this..
So using a M12 bolt and these.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...etoolsused.jpg
We came up with..
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...eaddrilled.jpg
My dad (he's making them) had a few issues doing them. Cue a few tests..
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...thalfcutSS.jpg
So can you see where we're going? A M12 bolt, with a M8 hole drilled and taped up the inside, so this will go thru the brace and screw on to the top mount thread. So it will hold the brace down nicely.
These are test ones as he cant get the hole to be center, so he's gonna get a man at his work to drill them on a lathe.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...naltryhead.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...38Finaltry.jpg
And he's done his own write up..lol
Quote:
Stainless steel hex head bolt was so hard, the angle grinder was taking a long time to cut it, so abandoned as too hard.
Ordinary steel Allen cap head bolt was grade 12.9, so would be hard and where allen key socket is would take away from the M8 thread length, so not tried.
Ordinary steel hex headbolt #1 - miss-judged and cut too short with angle grinder. But tried drilling, centre carefully marked, but drill wouldn't stay centred even with centre punching and predrilling with a small drill.
Ordinary steel hex headbolt #2 - Drill still wouldn't stay centred.
Ordinary steel hex headbolt #3 - tried marking centre and drilling from head, still wouldn't stay centred.
Ordinary steel hex head #3 - centre carefully marked, centre punched, 2mm then 4mm then 6.8mm hole drilled ready for tapping, hole started centred but hole ended up not concentric by the time it got to the end. Evidently due to platform on pillar drill not being square to chuck. Had to find straight bit of rod to put in chuck, to use set square against, to get platform horizontal. But why is every bit of rod in a shed bent? Bit of near-straight rod found, platform set up as square as could be judged, hole drilled. Nearly concentric - must be how bolt head is held in vice that's putting it out of position. Tapped M8 thread, proved it can be done.
Next - use lathe at work to hold bolt whilst drilling 6.8mm hole in from head end, to get concentric.
Lessons learned - when cutting a bolt with an angle grinder, it stays VERY hot for a long while.
Lol great write up from ur old man. Good work on the roof nova roofs allways seem to dent just behind the b pillars, I've heard they can come from handbrake turns n hard cornering etc as it's the shell flexing.
So you'll drill the hole bigger in the strut brace and then bolt it down with the drilled n tapped bolt? nice idea there benn.