Three, Two, One .... and we're back on topic. Well build fans, it's Sunday night so you know where I have been all day. No, not the pole dancing club. That's Wednesday nights. Cough.
Dunno what's going on with pics today. They have a mind of their own and keep repositioning themselves. Seriously, WTF is going on? You'll have to jump about a bit. I have tried three times and they're still all mixed up.
Decided to get the drawers out from under my feet. I keep using them as a work bench and that's criminal. So here goes for those of you with nothing better to so.
E M P T Y C A R Obviously, with it being a GS it has no rear seat to take to the tip. And no extra holes in the floor to let the water in. Or out. So straight in with the carcass.
Hmm first issue. Yes the holes in the cross member more or less line up with the tie down eyes, but they're 6mm. Reading your threads about corrugated roads, less than perfect tarmac and obviously the appalling road conditions to be found here in the UK, I wanted to do this build properly. No self tappers here, oh no. Even with the drawers in the right place, the holes in the cross member didn't line up 100%. You could see where Tony (the PO of the drawers) had come up against the same issue.
I wasn't having that. So off with the cross member - into the miller and hey presto, slots.
I then drilled out the 6mm top holes to take an 8mm thread. Ahh, proper bolts.
I also utilised the tie down brackets to A) close the holes, obviously and B) provide an anti-crush spacer so that when dogged up tight, the cross member doesn't just get squished. Nice.
Rather then then drill new holes in the floor pan where the second cross member is, I decided to use the other tie down hoop position. This time there would be 2 x 6mm bolts. Not too long later and some hybrid brackets were fitted. These stop the drawers from flipping up.
I pulled the quarter panel off whilst I was in there to put in a new door switch for the puddle lights. It just wasn't having it. We know they rust up inside. Sorted. But, I also came across some additional work. Seems that one of it's PO's had something fitted in the space. Maybe mobile comms stuff. But they had hacked out a huge piece of the cubby hole. Useless. Quick text to Webster's Wonderful World of Weclaimed Cwuiser Parts and a replacement has been sorted.
Here's the rest of the drawer units going in. Unfortunately Tony had modified a couple of the sections to suit his build. I either fit something in the same hole, or find a way to blank them off.
