Sunday 11 May 2008

Fitting body panels - Seatback (74 rivets)

The seat back is quite tricky to get in place as you have to flex (bend) it and it has a fold that runs across the top. A tip from the guys in Westfield was to flatten the middle 6" of the top fold. That way the panel will flex without putting a permanent crease in it.

Aligning the panel was quite tricky as every time I tightened the clamps at the top where the fold was it moved. I had a couple of fitting issues:

The rectangular holes (I assume for the seatbelts) were not quite central and the corner rivet hole was covered by part of the chassis:


The RH side of the transmission tunnel where the diff is mounted seemed not to be trimmed back quite enough:

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