Manky's Pop.

[Hillbilly Deluxe]

I think it would look cool with a wooden back end.

[panthershaun]

lights look crap Andy not in keeping with the car at all

Tell you what, as a good mate I will take them off your hands for you

[tazet]

What to go on your tepid rod. I think not 

[TwistedPatience]

"Tepid Rod"...............  I'll hold the coats

[tazet]

  Either that or Luke warm rod 

Yup Doc get our coats 

[panthershaun]

    we'll see who has the hottest rod  shall I rephrase that  size isn't everything 

[tazet]

Size isn't everything! Well you are a bloke so you would say that wouldn't you. 

[panthershaun]

  I'm cut to the quick  how could you be so hurtful
































 

[tazet]

 

[Manky Monkey]

Shaun, you're discussing size with a woman who owns a 6 1/4 litre V8 Dodge!
Mine's more of a Grot Rod at the moment, but it's getting there slowly.
Only an hour or so free to play in the shed this evening, so I welded & cleaned up the steering linkages.
We're using a Morris Minor steering wheel & column, supplied by Brock. It has a large M for Manky on the horn push.  The standard Moggy indicator stalk has a light on the end that flashes green. I was going to use an old "Banjo" style early Moggy or Land Rover wheel I picked up at an autojumble -it has 3 spokes, each made up of 3 wires. I decided the current one looks more truck like though.

[Manky Monkey]

So. The modified Pop steering box has a splined end welded onto it's shaft, to hook up to a universal joint bought new from "Pop Browns". On the other side of the joint is another splined section welded into the end of a Range Rover shaft. That pushes into a Range Rover universal joint. On the other side of that is the cut off splined bit of the Rover shaft, welded into the bottom of the Moggy Minor column. Easy.
The Godawful lumpy welds on the ends of the shafts were smoothed off with a sanding disc on the grinder, then I drilled through the joints & pinned them with 4mm engineers dowels, welded at either end.

[Manky Monkey]

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[Manky Monkey]

Got all the various bits hooked up on the car today. The column's not hung inside the cab yet, but with it held in roughly the right place, we could turn the steering wheel & the front wheels actually turn. No grease in the steering box yet so it's a bit stiff, but it definitely works. The Moggy column now needs shortening by 6 inches but we need to splice in a section of collapsible column as well. Loony say VW Beetles use them & one of his mates should have a spare for us to pinch.

[Manky Monkey]

Pops originally left the factory with a vinyl insert in the roof. It was quite common during the post war years when metal was scarce. A previous owner's already replaced it with a new steel panel, but it was totally flat -didn't follow the double curves of the roof. It was also just plonked on the outside rim of the body & welded where it touched, causing a ridge, which was covered with copious amounts of body filler. We stripped the filler off when we first got the car, but have decided the flat roof panel needs to come out & be replaced. Someone recently told me a Rover P6 roof has exactly the curves we need.
So Loony set to with the angle grinder.

[Manky Monkey]

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