An Introduction: Chris Collins and Morris Tilly Project

[jack neville]

The first side took about four hours and I was pretty happy with it. Will need some filler to tidy it up but it trial fitted perfectly and has got solid metal. The other pillar will be almost the same repair.

[Ian Mastin]

Fantastic work Jack

Ian

[jack neville]

Both pillars are now done and a trial fit found them slightly misaligned which I did expect. They bolted down neatly so I heated both to relieve any stress that would have lead to cracking.

[jack neville]

Then the short gutters after being derusted were reattached and the welds ground up. Good to have this fiddly repair out of the way.

[jack neville]

Two completed rooves for sandblasting completed with timber supports. There is still a couple of side pieces of timber to make up once the cross supports are refitted in to the front section of the rooves.

[jack neville]

Time to put the rear chassis rails and floor back together. First pick up the body and put it on the work bench.
Not many vehicles you can restore on a workbench!
First was to cut a small piece of pipe to insert inside the chassis as a crush tube for the damper arm mount as this is in a different position of a car chassis. I folded a channel section and insert inside the chassis where they joined. Smoe holes were drilled so a few extra plug welds could be added. As the outside pice of chassis runs unbroken past this joint I think it will be plenty strong enough.
Some other pieces of steel were clamped top and bottom to align the pieces.

[jack neville]

The holes along the length of chassis rail were plug welded and then the ends of the sill panel were capped off.