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Time to Fast Forward

Like everyone else, Covid has managed to muck up my day to day life, hence the lack of input to the blog. I have finally got back to the wishbone modifications. 

When I left off, I had extended the outer leg of the first wishbone. In order to make sure that the other side was the same, I had made up a jig. Now it was time for major surgery on the inner section of the arm. The idea was to drill a 38mm hole to take the tube that I was planning to use to replace the removed section.

I used a hole saw for that. Next I needed to sort out some spacers for the rose joints. I had bought in the taper ones in but they still needed some further trimming & then I turned up the parallel ones.

Before I went any further, I needed to make sure that my idea with the curved tube was going to work.

Without cutting off the rest of the original section of the wishbone, I was unable to fully check but was able to mark where I needed to cut.

The cut off disc soon removed the offending section, which has now given me full access.

 

I wanted to see how much the shocks were going to need to be altered.

My idea of drilling the 38mm hole didn't work. I ended up slotting both ends for the tube.

 

There was also a gusset to be welded in and the end of the tube to be capped.

The whole arm was then bead blasted prior to painting.

Goodbye to the Kadett

A final wash and brush up before leaving to go to it's new home.

One car less in the stable