'56 rag with a twist

[volkdent]

Originally Posted by ricola

Good to see you have made progress since I last looked at your main thread! One thing I'm not sure about is the inner bit of your spherical bearing mount. It looks like you have a rigid outer (hole in steel plate) and a urethane surrounded inner mount, this will lead to movement and potential fatigue in the bolt. I think if you just made the inner part rigid it would be good (much better than a lot of other kits that use loose outer plates...
Rich

Agreed.

Jason

[fahrvergnugen]

Finally the crosmember is done, When the body is on it's place i will modify the endpieces of the crosmember and probably do the bumb over again.



The heaterchannel was to long on the front and to short on the rear, I did not want to redrill my floor so I had to dismantle the channel.

The bottom of the channel will be mounted on the floor and then make the top fit.

Looks nice on the inside


Now that I opened the channel, I bare metaled the bottom and I will put some decent paint on it


Paul.

[fahrvergnugen]

After I painted the inside and bottom of the channel, I sprayed antirust on it and some inox spray on the welding areas. Now it was time to fit it in it's new position..
I placed the channel 1/2 an inch backwards on the bottomplate.


Back fits like a glove now.



The firewall can be mounted without a problem


Paul