13-05-2018, 07:19 PM
Hello Friends,
I've largely been off the forum for a few years, for various reasons. I'm now getting back on to a project i started nearly ten years ago and I'm afraid I'm going to be asking questions again! (I know how much you all like answering them really
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I have a 1932 LWB chassis, for which I've been gathering c. 1932 components to suit. When I left off my labours the last time I had got the vast majority of the bits to make a rolling chassis, many of which I had rebuilt/refurbished. I'm tantalizingly close to the start of the "spanner work", to the extent that I've (perhaps ambitiously) cleared out half the garage and put the chassis onto axle stands!
At this point, one expects to find the things one hadn't expected, and so here's my first: I've managed to bend one of the chassis rails! When I got it, the top of the o/s chassis rail was corroded very thin, with even a few holes. I cut this out and welded in some new steel. As a rooky welder I didn't appreciate that the heat would distort the chassis. On a flat surface, the o/s damper mounting now sits 1.5" off the ground...
I would welcome any advice as to how to sort that out. I have in mind to use a large section timber fence post, some webbing straps and careful application of a 2 tonne jack. Is that a sensible approach? All suggestions and advice will be gratefully received.
Thanks!
Geoffrey
I've largely been off the forum for a few years, for various reasons. I'm now getting back on to a project i started nearly ten years ago and I'm afraid I'm going to be asking questions again! (I know how much you all like answering them really
)I have a 1932 LWB chassis, for which I've been gathering c. 1932 components to suit. When I left off my labours the last time I had got the vast majority of the bits to make a rolling chassis, many of which I had rebuilt/refurbished. I'm tantalizingly close to the start of the "spanner work", to the extent that I've (perhaps ambitiously) cleared out half the garage and put the chassis onto axle stands!
At this point, one expects to find the things one hadn't expected, and so here's my first: I've managed to bend one of the chassis rails! When I got it, the top of the o/s chassis rail was corroded very thin, with even a few holes. I cut this out and welded in some new steel. As a rooky welder I didn't appreciate that the heat would distort the chassis. On a flat surface, the o/s damper mounting now sits 1.5" off the ground...
I would welcome any advice as to how to sort that out. I have in mind to use a large section timber fence post, some webbing straps and careful application of a 2 tonne jack. Is that a sensible approach? All suggestions and advice will be gratefully received.
Thanks!
Geoffrey