May 10, 2009.

A few things happening lately have prodded me to do a quick update on the project.

After making some mods to my tube notcher I got the last of the fish-mouths cut, the most extreme angle to cut was 26.1 degrees, so then it was time to see all these notched tubes would fit together…

The next job was then to manufacture the jig for welding the A arms on, this was made using some 50 x 50 X 5 EA with 5/8″ locating  drilled in it, stick welded (horribly) to a 50 x 50 x 5 SHS, the last hole in that being drilled after the two parts were welded together so as to make sure it was in the right place.

The picutres below show some of the process of putting the first 2 A arms together and the final results…

That’s a bit of luck, it fits!

This end was cut using the tube notcher and offsetting the part to the tool.

First tube tacked on and now for the second…

The finished results.

I’ve also got onto assembling the engine mounts from the laser cut parts.  These more or less work but they’ll need adjusting as the engine mounts on the engine I think have turned out to be further apart than I had initially measured, but it should not be too much of an issue to fix the brackets.