Thursday, May 22, 2014

Loose Ends


Now that the belly pan is complete I have some other details to take care of before turning the chassis  back over onto its wheels "Rotisserie." 


An alclad aluminum piece needs to be installed between the frame rails. 


Installed it gives a finished "look."


The 7-wire cord, (whip) was positioned prior to last piece of aluminum being installed at the "A" frame.  A grounding terminal was installed on the bottom of the frame.  These wires will be routed up into a junction box in the trailer wall.


The fender wells needed to be rebuilt on this trailer.
New ones were fashioned and installed.  
Stiffeners needed to be installed to help support the outer shell wall when it is re-installed. 


An aluminum angle piece was fashioned and positioned inside the wheel well.


Buck rivets were used to secure the angle piece to the inside of the wheel wells.


The piece will not interfere with the wheels but will provide the needed rigidity for the outside wall of the shell.
A portion of the wheel well will have to be trimmed away after the shell is re-installed onto the chassis.  The shell has an arched cut-out for the wheels.  The aluminum angle piece had to be installed so as to leave room for a future cut to match the cut-out on the shell.

Note the uncut ends of the banana wraps.  They will join and match the cut-out on the shell.  A trim piece will be installed around the finished wheel well.


Look !  Rotisserie!
The chain hoists and some persuasion was used to flip the chassis over again.


Back on its wheels again.


Moved to another position to handle some small details and installation of rivets in the "C" channel.


Looking a lot better and stronger.

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