August 27, 2003
Day 1 - Build starts
Got round to starting the build with, of course, the front suspension. Nothing too taxing to begin with although I keep forgetting to put copper slip on absolutely everything. The first small problem came with the lower wishbone which has as a 7/32" hex bolt and needs torquing up, but I don't have any imperial hex sockets (as people have mentioned before, the entire chassis is basically imperial). I got the LHS lower/upper wishbone and damper on and moved on to the upright which said 'remove the nyloc nut and washer from the stub axle and discard'. Now this should be straight forward if you know what a stub axle is ;-). The nut that you need to remove is the one on the right hand side of this picture, on the threaded section. The wingstays attach here.
Called it a night without removing the nut so there is still a little way to go before finishing the LHS. The RHS should be much easier now I know what I'm doing (sort of).
1 hour build time, 2 hours total.
Posted by charles at August 27, 2003 9:22 PM