Build day 4

Steering column

Started with some clean-up from last weekend, fitting the blanks over the holes left from moving the steering column,

the top steering bearing with new rivnuts,

and pop-riveted on the footwell steering seal.

I was going to refit the pedal box but I need some 1mm aluminium to make a new front plate to suit the new position of the aforementioned footwell seal so I got started on the rear suspension which itself starts with the handbrake.

Handbrake

Below are the handbrake components.

First I fitted the handbrake unit itself to the chassis on the transmission tunnel, then the triangle to the chassis base plate in the back and then fed the short cable from the back to the cockpit and fitted it to the triangle and the handbrake. 

Feeding the short cable is a bit of a puzzle until I took the grommet out of the chassis, fed the cable and its boot through the grommet and the chassis holes in the channel under the car and then once everything else was in place, refitted the grommet.

It was about here that Jeff popped in to see what I was up to and show off his neat little roadster. Thanks for the spin, Jeff.

Fitting the longer cables was also a poser...remove the boot and one nut from the shaft, feed the cable through and into the collar and voila.

Fit both to the triangle and handbrake dealt with!

Upper rear wishbones

Next the upper wishbones:

I had a some difficulty fitting these until I had loosened all the bolts in the rear chassis which made it awkward but possible with much threatening of violence (but only a small amount of your actual violence).

Around here I started banging on my fingers (the actual violence) so I decided it was "mistake time" and called a walkout.