Manky's Pop.

[kapri]

These are wonderful things

http://www.cbsonline.co.uk/category/Nuts__Bolts_and_Fixings/Rubber_RivNuts,b.html

or for non removable rivet

http://www.cbsonline.co.uk/category/Consumables/RivNuts/Aluminium_RivNuts,b.html

[spanners]

i bet andy, gets a ,funny, look of the other postie,s at work tommorrow when he tells them he spent an hour playing with,,, ,his four nuts,,

[Manky Monkey]

Uh huh. 

Kev, the rubber Riv Nuts are the very thing.They'll protect the fusebox from vibration too. Thanks. Just went through the mail order process on the Car Builder Solutions site though & the postage came to more than the nuts. They use a courier company, but will send by Royal Mail for a reduced rate if you order over the phone. So I'll ring them tomorrow.

[Manky Monkey]

Just bought a pack of 10 from Ebay I'm afraid. A third of the price of CBS.

[poprodder]

cbs were good on price when they were a smaller concern, but prices have shot up in the last year or so, europa spares are the same price wise.

[triker_Chewie]

i buy almost everything from th e'Bay these days
delivered to my door, cheaper then heading out and buying it
obviously a kick to australian industry but when stuff is less then half the cost, what do you do?

[panthershaun]

car builder solutions are based near me... 

[Manky Monkey]

O.K, after the forum crash a couple of days ago some posts have disappeared. Our hosting company seems to still be moving things around behind the scenes, so this post may not be here tomorrow! So here's a quick update.
I re-drilled the floor panel & fitted the Riv Nuts. They're a rubber boss with a threaded brass sleeve inside. As you screw the bolt into them the rubber squashes, creating a fixed mounting a bit like a Rawl Plug. Great. They provide secure mountings without having to scrabble under the car to fit nuts. They isolate the fuse box against vibration too. Unfortunately, as Terry T pointed out in one of the missing posts, they also stop the 'box from earthing out through the floor as he'd wired it to do. So now I need to fit a secondary earth strap.   

[Manky Monkey]

I've started re-fitting the interior floor panels on the passenger side, as well as the seat base. Today I wiped the rear transmission tunnel over with some "Kurust" on a rag. This neutralises any surface rust & turns it black. It also seems to stain your hands permanently black! (these shots were taken yesterday, before I did that). The fuse box came from Car Builder Solutions, hence the CBS lettering on the lid.

[Manky Monkey]

Over the last couple of days I've also bent a length of 8mm round steel bar around the top of the door opening. The original rain gutters were badly rusted & filled with body filler when I got the car. We'll blend this rod into the roofline, so it creates a lip, rather than an actual gutter, but should direct the rain away from the door. It'll also disguise any discrepencies in the door/body fit.

[Manky Monkey]

Guttering on pick-up cabs like this normally only covers the length directly above the door, but I decided to extend mine from the door hinge at the front to the swage line at the back. Just think it helps to visually tie everything in together.

[Manky Monkey]

Next job is to re-fit the seatbelt. We've already welded in the threaded mounts but I spent an hour fiddling with the innertia belt before giving up today.
I suspect I've got rear belts, but not sure. Fortunately there's a VW at the 'shop that I can pinch the belts from, but they don't seem to be properly fitted either. Can someone tell me how the belt should run.
Innertia reel down at floor level.
Belt reeling up the B pillar & looping through the back of the hanging bracket?
Then down across your shoulder to the buckle.
Then back down to the floor.
So you pull on the top length of belt that runs across your shoulder to reel it out.

So where does the end mount? To the same bolt as the reel? If so, it can't bolt in front of it because the reel itself would be in the way. If it goes behind the reel, it would have to poke out sideways or point down to the floor, which would inhibit the belt routing wouldn't it? Should there be a second bolt hole at floor level? If so, in front or behind the reel? I've tried Googling it, (they're "Securon" aftermarket belts), but can't find any fitting diagrams. 

[spanners]

9 times out of 10 the belt end go,s on the same bolt as the reel , in youre case i think it should point out forward,,,

[Manky Monkey]

Ahh right, so horizontally forward from behind the reel then. The belts I've got just don't seem to be set up right to do that. The only way they reel out properly is by mounting the reel at the top of the pillar & the belt loops over the front of the hanging bracket instead of from the back -which makes me wonder if they're rear belts, designed to mount through a parcel shelf.
As I said, there's a spare pair at the 'shop, so I'll have another go tomorrow.

[poprodder]

It also seems to stain your hands permanently black!

made me lol out loud!!!!

great progress andy.