Progress Worthy to Blog About

With rain and other weekend plans, I have only been working on the Triumph every few hours here and there with not much progress to actually blog about. I finally removed the last rusted bolt attaching the body to the chassis. Using a Dremel with a cutter bit, I cut a notch into the top of the bolt so that I could use a screwdriver to hold the bolt from spinning as I loosened the nut. With this last bolt removed, the body is FINALLY ready to come off.

Today, Chris and I finished drilling holes and fitting the crossbeams for the body rig. We decided to use bolts so that we could easily store the body rig in the garage until we could bribe some friends with pizza and have them help lift the body off the car. The finished cross beam consists of 3 bars across the top, one at the back bottom, and one diagonal beam on the back for stability. We have to leave the front of the body rig open to slide over the chassis when storing the body.

The plan is to leave the doors on the body when we remove it because we are afraid of the car bowing at the door frame. The floor panels around the concerned area have rusted through leaving the bottom door sills as the only support.

Hopefully we can get the body off this week or next and start looking into removing the engine.