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archie837 · « **Reply #50 on:** 05 May 2011, 15:49 »

Dropped the gacky gearbox to clean up

Dropped the beam extender and pulled the gear rod out

First pan in

2nd pan going in

Fully seam welded and taken for a test drive

Hasn't fallen over yet!

CSP axle adjusters come by post

archie837 · « **Reply #51 on:** 19 June 2011, 19:35 »

Haven't updated this for a while.

tackled the beam / axle adjusters today. these allow you to dial in the ride height you're after by dropping the front end.

Spensive CSP adjusters, worth it though

They;re grooved each side and go together like so

one manky beam

Starting to clean it up

Axle adjuster goes like so -

archie837 · « **Reply #52 on:** 19 June 2011, 19:36 »

We needed to cut a slot so the threaded bit can spin the leaves round to allow the ride height to change

Slots cut

With the adjusters bolted on

The beam had crimps / dents on the top and bottom holding the inner beam / leaves in place. We cut these out to allow the inner beam to spin freely and I then made some fill plates / bits and Mr Welder welded em in.

Just need to clean the welds up and jobs a good un. On the 17" steels with quite tall profile tyres it left about 2 to 3" under the beam so pretty low. I'm going to run dropped spindles as well, so expecting this to lay the beam on the ground.

archie837 · « **Reply #53 on:** 19 June 2011, 19:36 »

finished the beam bits for now

archie837 · « **Reply #54 on:** 19 June 2011, 19:37 »

Good day today! Floors finished up underneath so now solid. Also lopped off the jacking points and made my own instead which are not so bulky.
Pics!
Upside down floor

Old jacking point

Lopped off!

New one mocked up

Weldingz

New jacking point in

.

just needs cleaning up and can paint it!

archie837 · « **Reply #55 on:** 19 June 2011, 19:37 »

had a good day today as well. Feels like I'm not making progress, but making one off bits and doing a proper job, with only one day a week is the reason for that. Soo went down today for a play. reshimmed one side of the floor as it wasn;t square with the oppositte side. This would mean the body wouldn;t sit square. Also finished off one side of the jacking point as well.

Slicing the back for a rejiggle