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Re: barrie's project
Of course you shouldn't use the jacking points on ANY car where they are seriously rusty but my own Minor still has the original jacking points factory fitted in 1958. I keep the area clean and rustproofed and have every faith in using then to jack the car up in the event of a puncture or similar. As Neil says...that's what they're there for
At home and doing serious work on the car I have a trolley jack and axle stands and would never venture underneath the car on the original jack, but for a roadside puncture or similar it should be fine. What on earth would be the point in fitting a new crossmember, new jacking points and the not using them
At home and doing serious work on the car I have a trolley jack and axle stands and would never venture underneath the car on the original jack, but for a roadside puncture or similar it should be fine. What on earth would be the point in fitting a new crossmember, new jacking points and the not using them
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Yeah but I owned a metro and have fiestas and ka's lol.
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greendefender123 wrote:Yeah but I owned a metro and have fiestas and ka's lol.
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Nah im tight. Metro was a field car when I was 14. I wont spend more then £150 for a car.amgrave wrote:and I thought you were a sensible car owner
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Today was a busy day, I fitted supports to the tops of the chassis legs so I could remove the main cross member,removing the thing was not the easiest thing to do but it needed to be done .i had to cut half the tunnel off ,as it was welded underneath on the cross member[frame][/frame]
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Fitting the new one was so much easier to do , after all the cleaning up I had to do,[frame][/frame]
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Id love to have the confidence to do restorations like this its looking really well
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The cross member all sorted , I only tacked the passenger side sill to the cross member at this time as il be replacing that at a later date , I fully welded the legs as well even though I'm replacing them ,this is to make sure I have a solid base to work on,[frame][/frame][frame][/frame]
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ManyMinors wrote:Of course you shouldn't use the jacking points on ANY car where they are seriously rusty but my own Minor still has the original jacking points factory fitted in 1958. I keep the area clean and rustproofed and have every faith in using then to jack the car up in the event of a puncture or similar. As Neil says...that's what they're there for
At home and doing serious work on the car I have a trolley jack and axle stands and would never venture underneath the car on the original jack, but for a roadside puncture or similar it should be fine. What on earth would be the point in fitting a new crossmember, new jacking points and the not using them
I'm definitely going to use them , seems a shame not to really .
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Believe me ,I'm no pro at this sort of thing , I'm more used to welding new cars back together, this is way over my head , but I'm taking it slowly and measure everything more the 5 times !Johnd103 wrote:Id love to have the confidence to do restorations like this its looking really well
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This is the tunnel I removed, with cross member , well what's left of it .[frame][/frame]
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Floor going in[frame][/frame]
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Plug welds holding the floor to the cross member[frame][/frame]
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Cross member and floor underneath[frame][/frame]
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