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1st October 2020, 11:59 | #1 |
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MOT Same Old Story - well not quite
It's strange that we want to share such "joy" as gaining a MOT pass, when we clearly should not present the beast if there were a likelihood of failure, but I now wish to share my own story.
A few weeks back doing my own examination I found both rear springs broken at the bottom coil, so I managed to replace them. I then found that my rear offside jacking point had deep rust damage, so I purchased one of Tom Hobbs' replacement panels. My daughter and her partner do the occasional welding , having all the gear, but live over a hundred miles away. I did some research on the use of adhesives and last weekend, fabricated a panel, cut out the rot, treated all the areas, stuck the piece in place with Quiksteel and on Monday, took the car out for a test run, all went well, and all remained solid and fixed. How disturbed I was when 600 yards short of home, I felt a thump under the car and immediately got continuous vibration. Thinking that it could not be the panel, I pulled in and suspected a spring had gone until I found the rear silencer support strap had broken. I nursed the car home and made up one on Tuesday, all fixed into place. Today, in for the MOT, and had a chat with the examiner, explaining my work. PASSED and with an advisory, for a rusty brake pipe, and a comment that the patch repair is very neat. |
1st October 2020, 12:25 | #2 |
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Result, great your own fix did its job, not heard of an adhesive fix before, but then there's lots of things I'd not heard of before !
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1st October 2020, 12:40 | #3 |
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Should not have passed with a glued on panel
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1st October 2020, 12:58 | #4 |
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Same thing broke on mine today Fred. Just finished making up and fitting a new bracket. Only temporary mind as the rear box looks like it is shot.
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1st October 2020, 13:04 | #5 |
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Congratulations on the pass.
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A glued panel can have the same or higher shear characteristics against welded. A lot of to-days cars are glued (Aston Martin, Bentley, Jaguar). There has been a program series of "How to build a …….." on one of the channels and gluing assemblies is looked at.
In the 1970's (I think), BL did an experiment with a couple of MGB's. One had a glued rear panel and the other normal welding. The test (or at least the story/pic presentation) was similar to the Levi Jean logo. The glued car won! Kev |
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Hmm, wish I thought of gluing on the repairs to the sills of my own car......any chance of a picture please Fred.
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