Showing posts with label rear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rear. Show all posts

Thursday, 28 August 2008

Rear subframe jig

In order to ensure that he subframe mountings line up when I fit the new subframe mounting panels, I decided to make a jig which I could use to align everything prior to welding.

Firstly I measured (three times to be sure) the distance between the rear trunnions on the old subframe. This distance was 1285mm. I then cut up an old piece of angle iron to the exact length (minus the width of the trunnions) and then welded a pair of old trunnions onto each end of this. I double checked that the new jig matched up exactly with the old subframe and thankfully, it did.

Here's the jig:



I then measured and tacked the new subframe moutning in place, and checked that it aligned with the otherside using the jig, like this:



Luckily everything seems to have lined up first time! I was pretty worried about doing this, but it seems to have gone well...