BJH 914F 1968 Traveller

[Dryad]

I bought this Feb '68 almond green Traveller in 2009 and although I started doing odds and ends I eventually put it on hold whilst I did other things. Fast forward to this year and I found myself once again having a the greatest of urges to get properly started on BJH's resotration. Overall it's in quite good condition; rot in a few of the usual places but nothing too major. Yesterday I made a big start on one of the bigger repairs - replacing the rotted part of the N/S front chassis leg with a new one. It took me about four hours to remove the torsion bar and suspension bits, and carefully drill out all the spot welds. The other chassis leg is fine, as is the front crossmember. I shall weld in the new one next week.

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[Mermancdi]

Good job , another one saved.

[OGY985K]

Patient work! Drilling stuff out is a time consuming process. Will be great to know the suspension is secure when you hit pot holes!

[Dryad]

Started welding in the chassis half-leg today, after spending a lot of time making sure it's properly aligned. I had done about fifteen spot welds when my auto-darkening welding helmet stopped working, so I'll have to sort that out before I can finish this job. Here are a couple of in-progress photos and one of the old leg showing clearly why it had to be replaced.

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[Dryad]

Update: chassis leg is on and I've refitted the suspension etc. I had to remember how to Mig weld as I hadn't done it for about ten years, so it's a bit of a mixture of neat and not-so-neat welding! I bought a spot welder for the parts I could reach with it (lots of fun!) and the rest are plug welds. Having a pit in the garage is extremely useful for this kind of work. Next job: the offside sill and doorpost.

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[Maria1959morris]

Fantastic work good another one is gonna stay alive and not go to scrap yard in sky well done you'll get there in no time at all a d u be out enjoying the drive