Do my eyes deceive me or is the bodywork of my traveller bolted together?
Can I really just unbolt bits and bolt in new floor panels?
I would value advice on replacing the floor panels please?
Graham
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I know it's a truly stupid question, but I haven't seen a traveller for 33 years (I passed my test in HMX 209K) and my new and exciting project is not due to arrive for 3 days yet (I drove it accross a car aprk outside an MOY station 3 or 4 years ago and remember nothing at all about it - not even the year). At 54 years old I'm still an idiot about vintage stuff. I have just stopped restoring Ferguson tractors for a living and am still licenced to print the manuals about them and give advice to folk over the phone every day. I guess it's my turn to ask a silly question, if you don't mind please?
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Front and rear wings bolt on along with doors (obviously) front panel and rad panel. All the inner structure, ie floors, inner wings, sills etc are welded. To replace the floors you simply cut out the old as far back as sound metal and weld in the new ones. How far you cut will depend on how solid your original floors are but its not a difficult job on a Minor once you have stripped out your interior....
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The wings unbolt - front and rear, and the timber frames are secured with screws and bolts. The wood false floor above the spare wheel etc is bolted/screwed in place. All else needs welding !
Replacement of floors etc will depend very much on how much rot there is - and what else need replacement at the same time. A major candidate is the supension crossmember that secures the rear end of the front suspension torsion bars. Front 'chassis' legs are often rotted too - and the engine bay floors. Sills are often poorly, as are rear spring mounts. You should survey the car very very carefully before starting any work - so there are no nasty surprises half way through. For extensive work - a roll-over frame may be a good investment - this allows you to work while standing up !
Replacement of floors etc will depend very much on how much rot there is - and what else need replacement at the same time. A major candidate is the supension crossmember that secures the rear end of the front suspension torsion bars. Front 'chassis' legs are often rotted too - and the engine bay floors. Sills are often poorly, as are rear spring mounts. You should survey the car very very carefully before starting any work - so there are no nasty surprises half way through. For extensive work - a roll-over frame may be a good investment - this allows you to work while standing up !
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linearaudio
Was the car you passed test in a driving school car? I passed in 1976 and remember our local driving school (Deasleys) was really unusual in still using a fleet of white Travellers. Wasn't until I recently bought a Traveller that I realised their logic-dead easy to drive, excellent all round visibility!
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LINEARAUDIO, it was my mum's. I can quite see you point though. I taught several friends to drive in it after I passed my test (you could do that in my day) very sucessfully.
Just counting the days now. Ooh! This feeling is so childish!
I remember going in to Stewert and Arden's, the dealers in North Harrow to make the intitial enquiry when I was still only 16 years old (1970). I had not told my mum I as going to do it. I felt both guilty on account of not asking mum first and they might work out that I might be wasting their salesman's time if mum said no along with excited by the smell of new cars in the showroom and the newfound sense of responsibility as a growing man. I got the price from the salesman, sat in a traveller at the showroom, went and fetched Mum, sold the idea to her and - then I had to wait till they got one in for us. No different to now in that last respect. This one belongs to a holidaymaker who has a cottage near my home, who is coming up some time to get rid of his travelller to a local (me) so that it's not rotting in the front garden of his cottage. A very nice man!
They dropped one off a transporter, damaging it, so they said, which was why we couldn't have the Teal Blue we ordered, and the White one we got in the end had a dent in the roof. They told us it was the last one in Middlesex, so take it or leave it seemed to be the remaining choice.
Roll on Wednesday!
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LINEARAUDIO, it was my mum's. I can quite see you point though. I taught several friends to drive in it after I passed my test (you could do that in my day) very sucessfully.
Just counting the days now. Ooh! This feeling is so childish!
I remember going in to Stewert and Arden's, the dealers in North Harrow to make the intitial enquiry when I was still only 16 years old (1970). I had not told my mum I as going to do it. I felt both guilty on account of not asking mum first and they might work out that I might be wasting their salesman's time if mum said no along with excited by the smell of new cars in the showroom and the newfound sense of responsibility as a growing man. I got the price from the salesman, sat in a traveller at the showroom, went and fetched Mum, sold the idea to her and - then I had to wait till they got one in for us. No different to now in that last respect. This one belongs to a holidaymaker who has a cottage near my home, who is coming up some time to get rid of his travelller to a local (me) so that it's not rotting in the front garden of his cottage. A very nice man!
They dropped one off a transporter, damaging it, so they said, which was why we couldn't have the Teal Blue we ordered, and the White one we got in the end had a dent in the roof. They told us it was the last one in Middlesex, so take it or leave it seemed to be the remaining choice.
Roll on Wednesday!