boulogne racer build

[Tony Betts]

After a couple of weeks of from this build, to damn cold in the shed.

This week warmed up a bit, so I got back onto the chassis.

Pic below, bring forward the problem I had from the hartford thread.

The previous owner made the holes bigger to fit these brass spacers for the friction discs.

   

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This pic shows the oversized hole against the peg bolt.

   

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I've welded the holes, and after ALOT of filing.

The holes are back to size.

   

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Onto the problem of corrosion.

   

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Wedding and bringing.

Size of a 1p coin at at a time.

Usually stops the steel blowing from the heat.

Although I dont know why I bothered as the chassis rail is bowed.    

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Which brings us to the bow in the chassis rail.

I've put a tube across it, so it can be seen.

   

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I tried jacking just in front of the front member, because that looked like the deepest point of the bowing.

It came back a little.

But showed the deepest point was over the front cross member.

So I jacked directly under the front cross member.

And as shown it took ALL of the bow out.

I'm not happy that the strength of the chassis is there though, so I'll put a strengthening bar inside the chassis member tomorrow.

Then it's ready for paint.

Tony.