While working on the car over the past few
months the fact that I needed a makeshift prop (the anoraks will probably
recognise this TR7 part!) to keep the bonnet and the boot lid up, started to
get ever more annoying:
Time to search through the boxes of galvanised
parts for the two support stays and their mounting parts. That's when I found
out that I forgot to add the special mounting bolts to the batch of parts that
were sent of for galvanising:
So these were quickly added to the
"need-to-be-galvanised-as-soon-as-possible" basket. But as
galvanising is a batch process, plating only a handful of parts is rather
expensive. As I wasn't too keen on the temporary stay, and disliked the fact
that the bonnet was fitted with a metric bolt and the boot lid with a pair of
old school imperial ones, I decided on a
redesign. For which I (again) used a
local firm (Montagetechniek Patrick Saes) specialised in all sorts of
stainless fasteners. And he managed to come up with a fairly simple and cost
effective solution, using standard M6 Allen head bolts with ø10mm rod with an M6
inside thread:
This solution was almost direct plug and play.
Only the pivot holes in the two stays needed enlarging to slightly over ø10mm, to fit the new
mounting bolts. But that was rather straightforward with a drill column. After
which mounting the stays in their designated position was a piece of cake. At least
the boot lid was:
The bonnet took slightly longer, as I needed a
new jack nut for the mounting point on the inside of the LH suspension tower.
But that was quickly sourced and ordered:
And I didn't have to take the special tools out
to fit it into its designated place. A long M6 bolt with a sturdy washer, a
small vice grip, a spanner and plenty of grease on the bolts thread, was all
that was needed to do so:
After which securing the bonnet stay was straight
forward. Paying particular attention as not to knock the temporary stay (as
pictured @ the top of this post) from its position. The bracket of the bonnet
stay is mounted to the bonnet with two M5 bolts. In my case dome headed
stainless Allen key bolts:
With another small task finished I went in
search of some parts for the headlamp mechanism. To be continued ...
2 comments:
Greetings, Very nice work. I am working on building a rotisserie for my TR8 coupe and I am wondering if you found that where yours pivoted in the area of the bumper was a good balancing point?
Thank you
Hi Unknown, with the bumpers as mounting point the body will turn upside down. But easy (as in not to heavy) for one man to turn it in any position needed.
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