April 2004
Made some progress this month, but not a huge amount..
More of the chassis has been welded, I reckon I’m about two thirds of the way through
I decided to remove the 8x4 chipboard from the chassis and take it off my turntable
as it weighed loads and I was swinging it one way then the other and it was constantly in the way.
I half expected it to go “ping” and twist like a banana when I removed the clamps but it just simply sat there
That was a relief!
So the chassis is sat on the garage floor at the mo. I’ll probably mount it back in the turntable
but without the board, this will allow me to get inside it to complete the welding of all those hard to reach
areas. I also removed the back end of the Sierra, this was fun!
I spent ages with a jigsaw (and a VERY long hacksaw blade made to fit) and a disk grinder
trying to get through one of the chassis beams. Eventually I gave up and had go with
a hand held hacksaw…. It went through it like a hot knife through butter!!!! Couldn’t believe it
Still, the back end is off and ready to take a trip to the dump.
I’ll be making a start at getting the engine out soon
Ordered the cheep mushrooms for the sierra front suspension. These came through GTS Tuning
no problems with the order, the only comment I’ll pass is that it was a little peculiar in the buying process
I placed the order for the mushrooms £24.95 for the PAIR, then after payment confirmation for those
a separate email appeared with a paypal bill for £3.50 for the P & P.
the site advises that this will arrive separately, it was just strange placing the order
and not having any idea how much I would be stung for P&P, as it happens it was not too bad.
Mushrooms arrived a couple of days later… easy.
I’m pretty impressed with the quality of these. They come highly recommended … by me!