Started the week by folding another battery box side, incorrectly unfortunately. I folded another, correctly then marked out the fourth ready to fold. I’m still working on the MW, in between, cleaning oil off the brake linings and other components. Colin came to help on Thursday and removed the battery trays and cover boxes from the nearside, ready for plating over and helped me straighten the incorrectly folded battery box side and refold it correctly. The holes left by the NS battery boxes should give me some access to the chassis that side, too, so I can clean it down and silver it. We also trial fitted the new front wing and got it trimmed and temporarily in the right place, ready for final finishing. The final job of the week was to start drilling the holes in the metalwork for the first battery box.
Tag Archives: front mudwing
27/4/2025
Started the week by grinding off the welds on the front mud wing, revealing a few pinholes along the way, most of which I managed to weld up succesfully. The results look very good, so far. A few other odd jobs included installing the remaining screws in the horizontal beading where the holes had become enlarged and needed padding out. Attention then turned to reassembling the MW nearside rear axle and starting work on the offside, which required a lot of cleaning down. In between I continued work on the new battery boxes for HUO, cutting two bases and four sides out of 2mm glavanised steel and folded one side by the end of the week.
30/3/2025
Started the week by flatting the filler on the front quarter panel and priming it. I then moved onto marking up some plywood for the front mudwing template, using the mock-up created last week. This required several pieces and took a while to cut and assemble and was not finished unti the end of the week. In what was probably an ill-considered move, I decided yet again to attempt to realign the beading at the emergency door and rear corner, to give a straight run from front to back. This proved awkward and damaged the filler around the top of the rear quarter panel, which I repaired. The beading does look smuch better now. I continued with odd small jobs while I waited for the mudwing template to set; these included finishing painting the sliding pane of the cab window, rubbing down the offside rear window frame in preparation for painting and attending to the filler on the rear dome and elsewhere around that area. A quick check of the wiring situation under the cab reveals that this is complete and the cover can now be fitted over the junction.