1948 Triumph Roadster Supercharged plus other stuff…

Thanks Franz, glad you like my project .
I’ll look up your car on mgexp.


Did a bit of sanding of the newly veneered glovebox lid and gave it a coat of sanding sealer.
Then a second coat six hours later. I want to follow exactly the same procedure as all the other bits.
That way I can be totally confused when it turns out differently…

Still haven’t totally finished bolting the floor in.
There are a couple of bolts that need two people to get done up. Either that or one person with five foot long, triple jointed arms!
Still, I managed to spend a couple of hours more on it.

But it’s 99.9% done, so I moved onto carpet.

Made a piece for the driveshaft tunnel and glued it in place.

Then the trans cover.
Sewed up a nice simple gear lever boot and sewed it to the carpet before gluing it in place.
I’m loving this carpet.
Careful ( very ) application of the heat gun to the back side softens it and allows it to be shaped to some degree.



Also trimmed and fitted the footwell panels I made a while ago. The light grey in the pic above.

Next a couple of flat pieces. Hopefully nice and simple.

Thanks.

Hello
Do you do the 3d design yourself?
Here is maybe something interesting
www.mgexp.com/forum/t-series-and-prewar-forum.46/new-kingpin-seal-design.4275843.4283039/
the eos of my wije had a damaged axle boot
fitting a new one is a lot of work, so I took a glued one
declan has a slightly different solution
many roads lead to Rome

My dentist scanned my teeth today, I need a new bridge
the temporary is now being printed with a resin printer
I offered him to print it myself, I only need the stl
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you, because I know how great it is when you pass a challenge

you are on a good way
you will do it

Nice edging on the carpet, did you stitch it on?

Depending on how much it moves, a CV boot is an excellent way of sealing up brake pedals.

That looks super smart.

Thanks men, I’m pretty happy with it so far.


Spent a fair bit of the morning modding the coffee machine, so didn’t have as much car time as I’d have liked.

This is the (upside down) back of the front seat. With the leather masked off.





That is the same brown carpet that was used everywhere.
I’ve had this car for nearly eight years and I didn’t know the back of the seat was covered in that stuff.
Didn’t even notice it when I took the seat out of the car.
My point here is that it’s not in a very obvious position.
So I am going to recolour it, rather than make a lot of work for myself by actually changing it.

And after a bit of rattle can action. Involving a secret mix of spray paints.






Quite pleased with the result.


I also put the windscreen back in, but only to mark the position of the screw holes.
I’d filled them all with epoxy, so they had to be redrilled.
And that wasn’t possible with the screen in place.
Same goes for the top dash mounting screws.

So there was a bit of trial fitting of dash bits.





And I was able to use this beautiful little hammer that I found at the Quirindi beano.






To tack in the furflex. Rather than use a non period staple gun…





Thanks.

Looking very classy 🙂👍🏻

Thanks fellows. Very nice of you .


Today started off ok.
Got the seat bolted in.
A bit of a struggle with the spring loaded adjuster mechanism, but I finally got it bolted in.

Then I found that this bit of trim, the formerly manky piece that was subjected to bondage, wasn’t going to work.





A shame but as I discovered it’s meant to go behind the top of the footboard. Between the body and the footboard actually. The footboard clamps it in place.
The red circles are the bolts at the top of the (red hatched) footboard.
Hope that makes sense.
It wasn’t installed that way but I’m sure it was meant to be.
Now that it’s a lot firmer and the right shape, it just won’t fit correctly unless it goes between the body and the footboard.
And there’s no way I’m pulling all that out again to get it in there.
The carpet ( glued ) would have to come up, to get the gearbox cover off the let the footboard move at all.
So I reckon I’ll trim it with carpet, which should be better for sound insulation anyway.


And then another disappointment.





That is one of the glovebox lids, with some epoxy mixed with sawdust.

Because some idiot dropped it.
I could have kicked my a*rse till my nose bled.

I was getting it ready to fix it in place, had it sitting in the dash but not screwed to the hinges.
Got distracted and when I came back to it, picked up the dash.
I thought, 'lucky I spotted that' as I remembered the lid was just sitting there.
Then I blo0dy fumbled it!
What a clumsy moron!

Anyway, despite me being ready to cut my own throat at the time, the patch is done, the lid resprayed and I think it’s ok.
I’ll see what further damage I can do to it tomorrow, once the paint is dry.
Added bonus of cleaning a spray gun.
 I knew it was a mistake to put away all the spray stuff!


Took the radiator into my rad man.
Don’t know why I didn’t do it before.
Nice little detail on it.





Thanks.

After sleeping on it, I had to at least try the rejuvenated piece.
It had been through all that bondage after all!
It wasn’t exactly back to it’s youthful shape, but not far off.
This is how far the floors etc had to come out.





And after about four hours we’re back to here.





But I’m happy that an original piece is back in there. Even if the vinyl has been recoloured.

Spent even more time on the dash. This time I avoided throwing it on the ground again.
Just lots of fiddly screwing stuff together, being very careful because it’s like a piece of delicate jewellery.

And it’s in position, maybe for good though I doubt it.





Now to get all the bits behind it, that make up the actual gloveboxes, all fitting together so it will hold stuff.
And I want it nice to touch. Not sure what to use in there.

Thanks.