Well it's been a while since I last updated this thread, a year in fact and where has the time gone.
Speaking to Howard last week at the London Tour and he asked how I was getting on so this is the prompt for me to update.
Basically everything is totally stripped now and but a lot of my pics have gone walkies and I only have ones of the chassis. So I will start here, all the suspension components were stripped from the original chassis at the beginning of may. I was so glad that I bought the replacement chassis as the original would of needed all outriggers and side rails. Also the rear cross member and other plates etc on the underside.
When the replacement chassis was delivered one of the rear outriggers that go under the boot had started flapping on the M25 so was swiftly removed.
Over the last few months in between time being spent on Mable I have been stripping the old layers of paint of the chassis and doing any welding as I go along so I get a mixture of jobs rather than just days on end welding like I did on Mable and that gets a bit mundane.
The repairs I have done have been to replace the under boot floor outrigger, weld the front outrigger on the drivers side where it meets the main chassis rails and also some little bits of fill welding to tiny holes that appear as I grind of the old paint. I still have a few drain holes to put in that were for some reason never done at the Triumph factory.
The drivers side front suspension is nearly finished in new paint and I'm patiently waiting for the new poly bush kit to arrive so that I can't start the reassembly process once the rest of the chassis is painted.
The Vitesse colour is going to be changed from it's original Royal Blue to a very nice not in your face red, that was used on some BMW's and its called Imolarot Red.
Some pics for you to digest:
It's coming along a nice steady pace now....
All the best
Darren