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I just leave my spine in a wardrobe before doing those panels.

Rust makes them stick but i guess we’ll find out when disassemble them.

None of the bolts go thru water as is but to find moisture there (long bolt holes specially) is not uncommon. If liquids stays inside the engine and don’t find each other she’ll be alright.

Has to be legit.

I've used slightly modifyed normal allen bolts. Here is oe non-used.

That Muppet car vid shows a correct amount of steering play that i had in my Toyota Land Cruiser 😂

Ah 2x Dellorto 45 dhla w/ turbo kit. Those were the days 😂

No drinking and typing. 😛

Cattle Decapitation: The Prophets of loss

Can tc cover bolts be tightned or are tight enough?

Well if one is able to lure it out without it noticing what’s going on then one might be able to convince it to play along. reuser

Just a plug against dirt, 6 mm nuts etc. #23111200477

Totally doable.

Then it has to be something with the MC.

Fronts or rears? I'll guess rears and I go on and suspect that shoes/springs are not correctly assembled (not working/releasing shoes).

flocken flock! nice.

V8 and v10 swaps have been done. Web is your friend.

Yea shopping. Or was there something special inside? No? Then off to the neibourghs pool & ”new” in the hole.

And if/when some b/fluid gets past those rags rinse with lots of water.

How about I put it this way: tank sender unit needs ground from chassis and then it ”sends” ground to gauge. 10-pin provides +12 volts to gauge -> gauge works. How much ground tank sender ”sends” relates amout of fuel in tank.

Well it's kinda rose joint ball, spring loaded. And they wear (i.d. gets bigger) so measure/check it's snug enough.

Documented progress in form of new blog. Forecast shows frost for next week so M2 needs to wait a bit longer. I start to feel the itch thou.

This was a headake. I mean really. My ladder nervous systems was working at max capacity to figure this out. First I patched up the rising face of the rear bulkhead/frame rail. Had to cut outer cheek off the side of trailing arm housing, move it inboard with an angle - it needs to be under of body panel. Reinforced RTAB thread studs - maybe overkill but E46 guys have had to do this and it was easier to do now than later. Maybe it's just the rally boys but it's done now. Cleaned everything cabriolet relaiting bracetery out of way. Had 2.5 mm (to match Z material th.) sheet metal bended to make upper portion of the panel and used Z's under portion cuz I was too afraid to butcher more of oe rockers. Z's steel is hard. It was real pita to hammer it to contour upper part line. Got it done but it's not pretty. A small disappointment at this time. Oh well. Fabbed a wedge part to join RTAB support housing. Buttwelded from top and seam under thru large hole to attach it to pull rod (front) fixing point support. Then it was time to start welding upper portions in place. This took awhile. Small tacks first and cooling with pressurized air after each one - I didn't want to leave any tension to metal, or as little as possible. Then about 2 cm beads, cooling, Grind each tack/bead almost to level, cool each grinding, weld, cool, repeat... Left small extensions with 2x 6 mm holes in front part of rockers to have something to fix front fender supports when it's time to figure those out. And then at last all is welded up. Touch down! All metal was painted with weldable 1K etch primer inside and outside. I think I will aply a thin coat of cavity wax inside the rocker to prevent rust. Next will be some sheet metal work to mate c-pillar roots etc. to floor and roll cage.

First I measured center line for both chassis. And rear axle line for both. So rear wheel would be in correct position in regards to 02 shell. This was very time consuming. Lowering and alingning 02 on top of E85 floor to see where to cut next. Then winch 02 up to make room to work. Back down again, aling. Repeat. When I got to about 5 cm from touch down I found out that my support cage was getting in way. I had to make cage to outside of 02 chassis and remove tubing from the cockpit. This was also important bcz I wanted to be able to weld roll cage roof tubes all around before I mate the two chassis. I wish I had done this from the start. Oh well it is what it is. And we have a touch down! 02 chassis on correct level on top of E85 floor. Phew! Very early on I knew that rocker panels would be an issue. They don't match 02 at any level. This needs to be sorted next.