Triumph TR7 Restoration: Building a Dolly and Moving the Car!
In this installment, I build a dolly for the front of my TR7 and get her ready to move. Now I can move her forward, I can make a start on the back end of the car.
In this installment, I build a dolly for the front of my TR7 and get her ready to move. Now I can move her forward, I can make a start on the back end of the car.
Having now fitted the first wing, I’ve now turned my attention to the other side. First step was welding on the wing filler panel: Then, after a bit of time spent making sure the wing fitted properly (easier said than done – as mentioned before, the new wheelarch is a really bad fit so it’s …
After being busy with some other projects (mainly dealing with various problems with the other cars in the fleet), I got back on to the wing prep today. I started by putting the wing back on, this time with the bolts all in place. Everything lines up well, apart from a couple of issues: Firstly, …
After a bit of a hiatus(!), I’m now finding a bit of time to get back on with the work. The first thing to be done was to carry on with the offside wing and wheel arch. When I left it before, the only bits that still had the old underseal that needed removing were …
Not a lot of blogging recently, the weather has been hampering any serious attempts to work! I have managed to get a bit done though. The windscreen frame is slowly taking final shape. I’ve got it nearly there, just a few last small ripples to get out. Work moved on to the battery tray, it …
Nearly finished on the rear end now. I finished up the painting, then refitted the bootlid (again): Before reassembling the axle: And Installing: Apart from struggling to manhandle it in place and line everything up (My other half turned up at this point and helped out, which was useful 🙂 ), it was quite a …
After waiting a few days for the paint to dry, I went down and did a bit of patching on the bits that got missed the first time round – although the finish is a little rough, it looks OK. Final pictures: Apart from the small areas where the axle stands are at the moment, …
After getting the last bit (POR-15) done, I took a break for a week or so to give myself a rest, and also to let the paint harden properly. But I soon got back to it, rubbing it all down – not the easiest job, that paint is tough stuff – and cleaning it all …
Saturday morning was time to get painting – and the weather obliged with a half decent day to do it in! So after a quick check over the car and a rub down to get some metal ready residue off, we were ready to start. The car had picked up a bit of flash rust …
Today was ‘Metal Ready’ day – this is the acid etch/zinc coating stuff. This pretty much had to be done today, as I need to be painting the car at the weekend. If I don’t get that done, it’ll be nearly a month before I get the chance again. So, on a day when I …