And then there was one!!! 8.3.16

So with Si having a rubbish day at the office (the Garage) the thought of coming back and going into another garage was less than appealing! I got caught at work and therefore had planning to do when I got back and so it was just Dad who got up there tonight. I will get a report which I will post but I thought I would sneak 10 mins in to explain some stuff Si and Dad did over the last couple of weeks and we (including me) did last week. 

So 1.3.16
My god it was cold! Simon has been cracking on with the rear end which was a bit of a mess so we decided that a bit of a beef up was needed if we were going to use as much of the old Jeep as possible. Dad and Si decided on some box work which sits inside of the subframe (mostly out of sight) which will provide the needed strength without ruining the aesthetics of the frame. Here are some snaps of the process.

Before Work

Box Frame in before tidying the welds

New piece in! Just need a little tickle with the wire wheel 

Another Angle

Another Angle

An offer up before welding.

Mock up after Welding. dad now needs to source correct bolts!

Another Angle

So not bad I thought for a couple of hours work  over the least two weeks. (We are little restricted to the noise due to the garage being in a residential area. this only allows about an hour and a half a week to do stuff).

So what did I do you ask. Well..... after seeing Dad take the rear axle off the leaf springs with relative ease I thought I would remove the front ones. What I hadn't bargained on was the fact they probably had not ever been removed. So the old heat, WD40 trick = no movement so a little bit more WD and heat = no movement. Now I remember a good friend who worked on a number of expensive world rally cars tell me there was nothing you couldn't fix with a hammer and if the hammer didn't fix it get a bigger one!!!!  So nothing to loose and a 1/4 pound sledge in hand I went about freeing up the little suckers, and ... Boom!!! movement! 
To cut a long (and very boring story short) an hour and bit later one side was released!!!! Cant wait till next week and I attempt the other side! 
Sorry no pictures, as I'm sure a picture of 4 nuts would not really do my efforts justice!!