Today has been spent continuing to manufacture the timbers to rebuild the nearside wheelarch. The parts are mostly complete, I need to make the packing that gives shape to the outer face of the pillars and then give the parts not treated a good soak in preservative.
22/1/2020
New bandsaw blades arrived today so I started to cut out the pieces for the top section and rearward section of the new wheelarch frame.
I also applied a coat of wood primer to the underside of the floor and framing in the vicinity of the wheelbox.
21/1/2020
Slow progress today. I was able to remove the forward facing flitch plate from the body bearer aft of the wheelbox. As for the rear one I will be making a larger replacement. Haveing cut off the bolt heads and nuts holding the flitch plates in place, I decided that it would cause more damage to extract them so levelled them off with the surface of the wood. There is plenty of room to drill new holes for fixing bolts and as the bearer is showing signs of minor splitting the old bolts will help to keep everything in place.
The rest of the day was spent cleaning up all the accessible wood and the top of the chassis. Last job was to apply a coat of Vactan to the bearer to chassis clamp bolts and the top of the chassis. I considered replacing these as they are quite rusty, but obtaining replacements of the correct size is looking difficult so they will do for now. The woodwork can be primed tomorrow and the chassis top and various other exposed metal bits can have a coat of red oxide too.
Timber to rear of wheelbox
Looking rearwards from above the axle
Looking forwards from above the axle