Early Javelin Restoration

[Grumpy Northener]

Before packing up for the day I made this closing section up for the end of the chassis box to the factory pattern

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Welded in

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Once this is cleaned up (next workshop visit) the whole area is then overskined with a plate that comes down to weld in around the lower rear suspension link.

[Grumpy Northener]

Drummond - one of our fellow Jowett car club members was down from Scotland for an overnight stay - Drum has been around Jowetts heading on for 50 years or so and there are not too many tricks he is not aware of - so with this in mind we put him to good use

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Drum has a keen knack for rebuilding the quite complex coloumn gear change shafts

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The shaft was taken apart - refurbished as required - the old one had quite a lot of play in it which makes for a lot of fun when it attempts to select two gears at once

[Grumpy Northener]

Once rebuilt and set up to take the play out, Keith then soda blasted the externals of the shaft

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Cleaned up it was then sprayed with a zinc primer

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So thats one bit of the mechanicals completed and ready for paint - there is a quite a lot of painted metalware within the interior - dashboard / window trims / steering column etc and these will all be repainted along with the column change shaft at later date in the restoration

[Grumpy Northener]

It's a very busy time of year for thr day job - but I am making some progress - the closing panel was made up for the bottom front of the rear inner wing and the inner face sprayed with a zinc rich weld through primer

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Welded in

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Cleaned back - where the two skins meet towards the outer edge I managed to get some good spotwelds in on the panel

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[Grumpy Northener]

Next was to sort the lower N/S D post out - this abuts with the rear outrigger

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rear side made up and let in

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[Grumpy Northener]

Front section of D post looks ok - but hides yet another bucket of rusted out / overplated metal

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Using the rear section for reference the front can now be cut out

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The sill section that abuts the bottom of the D post was also a mess of overplated rust

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[Grumpy Northener]

The end of the sill was sectioned and new metal fabricated / let in

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Closing sections could now be let in to replicate the factory original seams

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[Grumpy Northener]

The outrigger could now be attached

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Closing panel fabricated and let in to the outrigger

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Another area ticked off the endless list of welding & fabrication

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[Grumpy Northener]

Upper sections of the D post had also suffered from the tin worm / previous repairs

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[Grumpy Northener]

Repair areas cut out & welded in

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