Grizz’s Purgatory, Rezin Rockit 🚀 SUMMERTIME FUN 18/09/23

Morning mate,

Thanks for the reply.

I want to mount the LR frame in such a way that it can be folded down flat.

Plan currently in my head, is to use flat bar, possibly 5mm and to replicate all the existing holes for mirror nd also to create an internal mounting point for the net doors I am going to make up to mount to.

That will be “L-Bracketed and gusseted in the lower side kick panel space and bolted through the floor, either to an extended tab from the chassis, or using a sandwich to spread the load.

At the top where it comes through the dash/firewall/A-pillar corners, a slightly complex bit of engineering will ensue, resulting in a solid mounting point bilaterally for the screen to hinge from and then some form of tab onto which the screen can be secured when upright.



Copied and pasted from a couple of months ago.

This is what needs to be reverse engineered from the screen in position.


So glenanderson brought over his restored Land Rover front screen frame yesterday for me to use as a lighter than glazed mock up item.

They attach with a bolt either side of the cab, and are held in place a Y-shaped plate and nut either side

He brought me a drivers side item, with wing nut for quick release, which left me needing a passenger side item.







My current plan is to create a single unit, like a Twin Lilly on a stalk to hold both the bolt and retainer plate, and then to bolt down the side, incorporating both of the door hinges and a backing plate insure the body down from the A-pillar. This should give enough strength to hold and sustain the window frame once glazed.

The plan is also to add a wedge of very high density foam under the screen, as it is done on the Land Rover to increase the slope rearward.

This will automatically lower the screen some more visually.

So this morning I posted a request for a plate to buy on various forums, as well as on my general FB home page.

Within half and hour, my buddy Ricky, who bought the Chrome Smoothies off the C10 Chevy just over 5 years ago, contacted me nd said he would investigate a lead he had.

An hour ago he messaged that he had been given one as it was a ‘useless part” that would never be sold, and it would be in the post next week.

So we have one passenger side plate now. Need to get a nice wing nut to add for finger control.




Karma?

with the weight reduction in mind how about using a 5or 6mm thick piece of aluminium for the screen will still be far stronger then the fiberglass is ever likely to be. I reckon 130bhp of bomb proof mazda engine with fairly low gearing and as little weight as possible will be just about right, start going for big capacity and you make it heavier, moving the weight even further forward and the feather weight rear end on a live axle becomes a little too frisky to be fun.

Interesting you also has a 1200cc 105e, I did too Blew the 1200 up on mine though and stuck in a 1600gt out of a capri (every scrapyard was full of them back in the early 80's).

Superb. Paying it forward in spades. 

brilliant.

Well done, karma at it's best ...

Great sign, perfect place to put it!

I thought I should just leave this here:


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