Frame Repair update
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Racer
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From: St. John's Newfoundland
Frame Repair update
hey guy
Just thought i would post a few pics of out frame repairs. Some of you may remember the frame from earlier post, it was in really bad shape.
Since then we have repaired the kickups:
Repaired the underside of the kickups and replaced body mounts and #4 crossmember gussets:
It's been a lot of work but we have enjoyed it. Looking forward to getting the thing back from the sand blasters next trip in. Then we can start adding all the new parts.
Just thought i would post a few pics of out frame repairs. Some of you may remember the frame from earlier post, it was in really bad shape.
Since then we have repaired the kickups:
Repaired the underside of the kickups and replaced body mounts and #4 crossmember gussets:
It's been a lot of work but we have enjoyed it. Looking forward to getting the thing back from the sand blasters next trip in. Then we can start adding all the new parts.
Last edited by cboyd; Jun 19, 2007 at 02:20 AM.
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Racer
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From: St. John's Newfoundland
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Racer
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From: St. John's Newfoundland
Instructor
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From: Grand Island N.Y.
CBoyd,
Did you purchase the rear kickup to third member pieces or did you fabricate them? I've got the same kind of thing going on but to a lesser degree. Thanks for the before / after pictures. You've increased my confidence that rust can be overcome. By the way, nice job!
Did you purchase the rear kickup to third member pieces or did you fabricate them? I've got the same kind of thing going on but to a lesser degree. Thanks for the before / after pictures. You've increased my confidence that rust can be overcome. By the way, nice job!
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Racer
Joined: Oct 2006
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From: St. John's Newfoundland
CBoyd,
Did you purchase the rear kickup to third member pieces or did you fabricate them? I've got the same kind of thing going on but to a lesser degree. Thanks for the before / after pictures. You've increased my confidence that rust can be overcome. By the way, nice job!
Did you purchase the rear kickup to third member pieces or did you fabricate them? I've got the same kind of thing going on but to a lesser degree. Thanks for the before / after pictures. You've increased my confidence that rust can be overcome. By the way, nice job!
Thanks for the reply.
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Racer
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From: St. John's Newfoundland
Lots of work but kinda fun.
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Racer
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Melting Slicks
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Don't know if you knew this already but Doc Rebuild has frame repair sections you can buy. Could speed things up in the tricky places.
You'll need Adobe Acrobat to view it.
http://www.docrebuild.com/dr-r-web/FRAME63.pdf
You'll need Adobe Acrobat to view it.
http://www.docrebuild.com/dr-r-web/FRAME63.pdf
Melting Slicks
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From: Airdrie Alberta
Princess Auto, The best thing that has hit the East coast since the beer store
Same for the west, bought a lot of stuff there for this project. Gee!! maybe I shouldn't have cut my old frame in half!
Great work
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Racer
Joined: Oct 2006
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From: St. John's Newfoundland
Don't know if you knew this already but Doc Rebuild has frame repair sections you can buy. Could speed things up in the tricky places.
You'll need Adobe Acrobat to view it.
http://www.docrebuild.com/dr-r-web/FRAME63.pdf
You'll need Adobe Acrobat to view it.
http://www.docrebuild.com/dr-r-web/FRAME63.pdf
Thanks for the link.
Clyde
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Racer
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Clyde
