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Dakar Rebuild - part 9More fabrication...OK - quite a while since I posted anything here, so time to remedy that :-) 17-18/05/06Time to get something to cover the fuel tank. As it's an odd shape, I figured the best thing to do was just enclose the lot. Yes, it wastes a fair amount of space, but it'll look much better and I can get some secure-ish cubbyholes to lock stuff like the jack, bag etc. in if it's left anywhere public.First job was to find a suitably beefy crossmember to live at the front edge of the tank that quite conveniently is almost exactly in line with the underside of the tubular members that run down the top sides of the shell. A quick visit to a friendly metalworker and a few minutes rummaging around in his scrap bin soon had a length of 60mm steel angle that he graciously cut to length for me. 24-25/05/06There was still a hole in the rear wing from the rather destructive visit to Hartington quarry (where I also bent one of the side steps) so I decided to repair that by fabricating a plate to fit the contour of the arch and pop-rivet it on with another plate on the inside, sandwiching the damaged inner and providing a more robust, stone-proof skid pad for the arch inner. This is the plate:;)
And this is how it fits in the arch: This is a rather bad photo of the inner plate that sits inside the vehicle: 03-04/06/06Now that the arch is sorted, I can knock up the panels that enclose the fuel tank, battery, radio gear, computer and other gubbins that need to be stowed out of the way. You can just see the battery underneath the shoulder of the fuel tank through the right-hand access hole:;)
This is a reverse shot showing the near-side. You can see the panel that hides the filler neck and washer bottle here: When I test-fitted the steel cover that bridges the gap between the shell and the upright on the load area, you can see the washer bottle is an almost perfect fit! Just to make me even happier, the washer bottle's bottom angle is just right to sit neatly on the top of the wheelarch. It was bolted and zip-tied in place and the wiring loom run down some of those spare conductors I dropped in at build time making a nice neat job. Even the 'fluid low' warning light works! The cover, incidentally, was made out of the side of an old full-tower computer case :-) And the whole lot fitted together. Looks quite reasonable! The washer panel will be held on with some Dzus clips once I'm feeling less skint! 10-11/06/06OK - Seats. The existing ones had fallen to bits and the new ones are an appreciably different size and shape to what used to be fitted. As such, the existing, very un-level rails would have to be modified to take the Range Rover seats. They were disced back to bare metal:;)
Some measuring from me and some welding from Dad (I don't trust my welding for something that could be put under extreme forces during an impact): And we have two pairs of flat runners to which the Range Rover's seat bases can mount securely: All welded in and painted with everything-proof paint: And the finished items:
This page was last updated: 18th June 2006 at 9:12pm BST |
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