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« on: July 14, 2008, 12:23:35 AM »
Sunday - fitted the hinges for the front lid, so that we could get a better idea of how the front was lining up without having to worry about carrying the bonnet back and forth. It then got hot, the sun came out and so did the perspex panel in the rear lid, not too worried as I remebered someone else posted that their perspex panel expanded in the sun. Looks like I'm going to have to trim that down by at least 1mm on each side!
Finished lining up the driver's side front sill and screwed that in place. Made up the clay for setting up the door positions. Drilled a couple of 8mm holes where the clay was going to go in the fibre glass door returns and pressed the clay through the holes so that it would hold. Masking taped up the doors where the clay would touch them, note do a much larger area with tape, than you think you need, just in case the clay squeezes in that direction! Once it sets, and it goes rock solid try and remove the door panel - if it's like mine it will have bonded to the masking tape. You may not think that masking tape has much grip, but the combination of clay and tape put up a significant fight....
Next it was onto the door handle mechanism, managed to get the passenger one put together and bolted onto the car (it works!) and made the hole in the door for it and then it was time to stop. - tenpin