Monday, June 9, 2008

Rotisserie Built

Andi and I built a rolling rotisserie to carry the mini and make it rotate into various positions for painting.

The base is made of two massive T s with rolling casters. An 1 1/2" pipe holds the mini up, spinnning inside 2" pipe welded to the firewall, shockmount bracket and the T bases.

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Fuel Tank Trouble

The tank has seen better days, but after having it sandblasted it looked repairable. I just had to chip off the bondo (previous owner used bondo to stop the leaks) and seal the holes with proper epoxy tank repair, then finally hammer out the worst of the dents.
The trouble came with the small access holes, which made hammering out the dents difficult. Trying to remove the old internal filter has been even harder. It is just out of reach and i seem to only be bending it around instead of knocking it off the pickup. If anyone has ideas, please post.

Grill

I finally got around to putting the grill back together. Most of the individual aluminum fins had been broken off of the backing plates and the vertical support.
After drilling out the old rivets, I riveted the parts all back together.
Some of the aluminum gills needed straightening as well.