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Tiger Tamers 1964 Hillman Minx Project


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One side nearly done. I will just tack the top spring perch's in for now. I should have taken some photo's of the fish plates before welding them in. I will do so for the other side. There are 3mm plates each side and 3mm welded in to the under side of the original chassis rails. Boxed three sides I suppose. It would have been nice to have the holes in the plate welded in nice and pretty like some do with their tig welders, but it just wasn't going to happen with the mig.

I will make up the plates for the other side tomorrow and clean up the chassis rails ready to weld them in. I have plenty of wire, plenty of gas but a few aches and pains as well, lol.

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All pulled apart again now. Happy enough with it's stance to carry on as is. It will settle a little.

I thought I would give the vinegar bath rust removal a go and it's cleaned the rust of the lower trailing arms nicely. You need to do a bit of scrubbing which I found scotch pad good for. Then a couple of coats of POR15 to keep them protected. It's bloody good stuff when done properly. Tuff as hell.

I know with POR15 you have to be real careful not get any in the rim when you put the lid back on, BUT this is a brand new can and the first time open and I only just got it off. Luckily the wife has gone back into town so she will get me some new lids from the paint shop I got the can from.

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Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet, give yourself a good kick up the butt and redo something that just wasn't right let alone aesthetic.

The firewall bugged me and it could have been welded in better. I stuffed up and didn't drop the top piece down far enough and then added to it which didn't go that well. It all started to get a bit out of shape. Fugly really.

So today the start of a new year I made a start on a new firewall.

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Anyway. Slight F*#%$ up. I should have just tacked it in place and wrestled the diff back up in place and CHECKED the F*&%$#g thing. When I went to fit the shock in place it was in the wrong place. The diff must have moved on me when I was originally setting it up so what I thought was the correct place to weld it in was to far out to leave. It wasn't as bad to remove as I thought it would be.

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I have the gas tank all painted up and now fitted back into the car. I have decided to go with an external pump since I already have a couple that should be fine to pump fuel to a surge tank. I also had already cleaned and coated the inside of it with por15 fuel tank coating and didn't' want to redo it. If it is too noisy, I will find another tank and modify it at a later date. At least I can now get on with it.

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