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Time to test fit the new splitter!
I bolted on the wear bars to try and stop the underside getting damaged when I offered it up.
edit: Worth noting this is NOT the final painted finish. This was just a light coat of black I threw over it before final paint.
I've kept the old wear bars for the minute. They started out at 10mm thick, and were all around 7mm thick still, so plenty of life left in them for now.
The mounting point retaining blocks had worked well on the whole, although due to being scraped I did have to hammer the old bolts out:
I then cleaned up the rough edges of the counter sink with the dremel, and replaced all the bolts for new ones.
The splitter went into place, and got bolted into position. No pics of the test fit as my battery died.
I replaced 2 of the threaded hangers on the outer edges. These had been bent from grounding impacts pushing the splitter upwards. I bolted the splitter into place on all the remaining mounts, then adjusted the hangers to meet the splitter surface. Checking it was level (or falling toward the nose) the whole time.
Next up was the oil cooler mounting. Previously I'd used 2 m6 bobbins, rather roughly drilled through the slam panel edge on a nasty angle. It was never a nice solution, and as expected, the bobbins broke away when I tried to remove them. So I bought a mocal oil cooler bobbin mount which held both fixings in a single rubber block:
I still didn't like how it sat against the slam panel, so I made a metal place to mount the bobbin, which I could then bolt securely to the slam panel.
I routed out the lower edge of the slam panel to allow the oil cooler mount to sit naturally. Painted the plate to stop it rusting, and bolted it up to the plastic panel.
The old drilled and fixed cooler mount made the slam panel flexy at the point where it had been weakened. This new mounting seems to have made the whole area much stiffer.
Sunday ended much as Saturday began. With everything getting utterly soaked!
I tried to crack on working under the gazebo, but the weather got pretty extreme and I spent more time trying to stop the gazebo taking off than actually on the car, so at 5pm I called it a day:
I bolted on the wear bars to try and stop the underside getting damaged when I offered it up.
edit: Worth noting this is NOT the final painted finish. This was just a light coat of black I threw over it before final paint.
I've kept the old wear bars for the minute. They started out at 10mm thick, and were all around 7mm thick still, so plenty of life left in them for now.
The mounting point retaining blocks had worked well on the whole, although due to being scraped I did have to hammer the old bolts out:
I then cleaned up the rough edges of the counter sink with the dremel, and replaced all the bolts for new ones.
The splitter went into place, and got bolted into position. No pics of the test fit as my battery died.
I replaced 2 of the threaded hangers on the outer edges. These had been bent from grounding impacts pushing the splitter upwards. I bolted the splitter into place on all the remaining mounts, then adjusted the hangers to meet the splitter surface. Checking it was level (or falling toward the nose) the whole time.
Next up was the oil cooler mounting. Previously I'd used 2 m6 bobbins, rather roughly drilled through the slam panel edge on a nasty angle. It was never a nice solution, and as expected, the bobbins broke away when I tried to remove them. So I bought a mocal oil cooler bobbin mount which held both fixings in a single rubber block:
I still didn't like how it sat against the slam panel, so I made a metal place to mount the bobbin, which I could then bolt securely to the slam panel.
I routed out the lower edge of the slam panel to allow the oil cooler mount to sit naturally. Painted the plate to stop it rusting, and bolted it up to the plastic panel.
The old drilled and fixed cooler mount made the slam panel flexy at the point where it had been weakened. This new mounting seems to have made the whole area much stiffer.
Sunday ended much as Saturday began. With everything getting utterly soaked!
I tried to crack on working under the gazebo, but the weather got pretty extreme and I spent more time trying to stop the gazebo taking off than actually on the car, so at 5pm I called it a day:
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