1946 Morris 8 Series E - off to storage

I was outside early today so looking for a quiet job I did some morris work.

Bent up the wire for edging the lower part of the seat.

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couple of little tweaks on the fit

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then a few more, and onto the other side

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then started cutting out the holes to swiss cheese the seat

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then got stuck as I need a larger allen key for the new large hole cutter.

You could make some good bird scares for the garden with those cuttings.

Nice work on the second seat.

I'm under substantial pressure to start making good progress on this again.

My dad was moaning saying to me he wants to see it move under its own power before he dies, or before heat engines get phased out....

He may have a point. I shall be looking to get some progress going.

That there is. Just as well I enjoy it!

Would be nice drive them at some point though.

Driver foot plate

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drivers seat mount

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foot plate fitted

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seat mount fitted

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then on to swaging some holes

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this looks like an excellent opportunity to use my new toy

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A hydraulic hole digger you say, what the freaking hell is that?

Well it turns out that's the Chinese English for a cheap hydraulic hole punch. I need to do quite a big hole for something and bought a cheap kit to see what its like. Its meant for punching holes but I think it'll work for swaging holes nicely as well.

set up

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works well

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then started dressing the top over

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and after a lot of forgetting to take pics I have a dressed over top and soem swaged holes

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then on to the big holes. This required a bit of modifying to the press tool with a big hole through it and a stand off collar. The set doesnt come with a big nut, so a reversed cutter was pressed into service.

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it all worked really well, and a lot easier to do than the clamps I used last time with much better results. Once the tool was modified, the whole back took maybe 10 mins to do everything.

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I also put a first top coat on the seat

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By this point i was getting pretty fed up with my cold so came in.

plonked the seat in the car out of the way

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it may stay white, it may not.

then moved onto the other seat.

I dressed over the edge on the lower part of the seat

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some trimming and tidying up to do but not too bad.

other side done as well

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then started dressing round the other flanges

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then tried it in the car to see what needs adjusting

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this bit does...

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and this bit is in the wrong place by about 50 mm height wise, not sure how I managed that....

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its a bit tight with two

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I think i'll need to trim back the passengers shoulder support a bit to aid clear the drivers more. When you're in the driving seat you cant really connect with the passenger seat when turning or pulling the handbrake, but i'd like it to be a bit further away.

In the quest to get the seat to fit a bit better I tweaked a couple of bits.

Rolled the front edge, rather than have a 25mm lip like the drivers seat.

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trimmed the wings back a bit and tacked them

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I then tried fitting again (forgetting to take a pic). I've managed to drop the seat about another 25mm, but wont be able to go lower than this without notching the 50 x 50mm chassis box, which I don't want to do.

When I get it a bit further on I may see if notching the seat would work to clear the chassis rail. Its all very tight and I'm pinching mm's.

Fitting wise I need the frame a bit stiffer before I can be certain where to cut.

So onto the seat back. Template made, transfer to steel

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goes in this hole

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like so, some tweaking needed still

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start drilling out for swage holes... including a miss drill....

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then start punching holes

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It was at this point the Cheap steel gave up the ghost on the slender puller and stripped all the threads from the nut.It turns out the pull rods are only blackened mild steel, not hardened mild steel like everything else in the box.

Que some modifying of hole punches and swage tools to get it all going

end up with this

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Still some final tweaking required.

Then onto the side bolsters

Find the template from the other seat

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cut some blanks

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trim to size / shape

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fold up and trial

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and the other side

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slowly getting there

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Cup holders will be on the transmission tunnel ;-)

I spent the first hour or so having a bit of a tidy up as the workshop was a tip.

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the had a look over the seat to see what needs tweaked.

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adjusted a couple of panels to improve the fit up

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then started measuring up to adjust the shoulder support so its less intrusive on the driver

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trim, hammer, hammer some more

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and start adjusting for clearance on the cage side

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mark up

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cut

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and relieved

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this lets the seat drop to a better position and make clearance a bit better

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the passenger sits quite a bit lower in the car

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decided I didnt like the little nib sticking out so re-profiled that

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It now looks like there's no shoulder support on the left side, but the cage keeps you in there nice and snug. I may fit a shoulder support to the cage at some point if needed.

then started looking at stiffening up this side a bit

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did out the template from the other seat, adjust it a bit and replicate in steel

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goes like so

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needs holes

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so does this.

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black final hole size, red is drill size.... as I keep messing up the drill size....


holes

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swages

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swaging in process

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swaged

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trial fit and adjust

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then decided that these bits look a bit heavy

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cut and swaged

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it nicely stiffens what was fairly large flat panel areas.

seats starting to look similar to the drivers one now.

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Thats it for the weekend. Will see when I'm on it again. Drivers side stubby stiffener to do.