Now I know that I am walking in everyone's footsteps here in fitting a snorkel, but doubtless there will be other following me too - whilst ever there are 80's around that is, so I figured I'd stick some pics up.
I started by removing all the standard gubbins of course at which point the boom bottle fell inside the wing. Next came the template fitting. I wasn't sure whether to contour the card to the wing or lay it flat cross the high points. In the end I went with contouring it and it seemed OK in the final analysis. Template on, I lightly punched the holes and drilled them with a pilot at about 4mm then opened them to around 8mm
Then I had a cup of tea before the big one. I had my lad spraying cutting fluid onto the hole saw which seemed to make a nice job of it. All de-burred and touched up to prevent rot.
You can drill them all out to 14mm like they say but I reckoned on a bit more precision than that. I had to slot the windscreen end pair a little as they were almost one diameter out from the template.
Following JW's advice I rivnutted the bracket with some 6mm cap heads. Much better then plastic inserts and self tappers
I put some self adhesive foam strip, like draught excluder around the inside of the snorkel before mounting it. This ensured a snug fit, no chance of rattle or rubbing.
Got to say that the finished line is 100%. Couldn't have been better really
With the tube rivnutted it really is solid.
A huge thanks to my 15yr old Lad without whose help I could not have got the last nut on up inside the wing. Ratchet spanner once again saved the day tightening them all up too. Good tip from Ecky on taking out the side light to get the jubilee clip tightened on the rubber connecting hose.
So there we have it. No longer standard!
Side steps have gone in anticipation of Lincomb. They would only get bent.
Chris
I started by removing all the standard gubbins of course at which point the boom bottle fell inside the wing. Next came the template fitting. I wasn't sure whether to contour the card to the wing or lay it flat cross the high points. In the end I went with contouring it and it seemed OK in the final analysis. Template on, I lightly punched the holes and drilled them with a pilot at about 4mm then opened them to around 8mm
Then I had a cup of tea before the big one. I had my lad spraying cutting fluid onto the hole saw which seemed to make a nice job of it. All de-burred and touched up to prevent rot.
You can drill them all out to 14mm like they say but I reckoned on a bit more precision than that. I had to slot the windscreen end pair a little as they were almost one diameter out from the template.
Following JW's advice I rivnutted the bracket with some 6mm cap heads. Much better then plastic inserts and self tappers
I put some self adhesive foam strip, like draught excluder around the inside of the snorkel before mounting it. This ensured a snug fit, no chance of rattle or rubbing.
Got to say that the finished line is 100%. Couldn't have been better really
With the tube rivnutted it really is solid.
A huge thanks to my 15yr old Lad without whose help I could not have got the last nut on up inside the wing. Ratchet spanner once again saved the day tightening them all up too. Good tip from Ecky on taking out the side light to get the jubilee clip tightened on the rubber connecting hose.
So there we have it. No longer standard!
Side steps have gone in anticipation of Lincomb. They would only get bent.
Chris