Thread: Rebuilding Sid

Originally Posted by Cadas

Put another 100+ rivets in yesterday and today was all about door alignment.

That would make you a rivet counter yes....?

Originally Posted by Homestar

That would make you a rivet counter yes....?

Oh ****** you’re right.

But I reckon I’m safe,

I don’t think they’ll let me in the club given the colour I’ve painted Sid.

Last of the big panels



Ordered the seats last week, local upholstery shop is doing those.

Headaches for now are the door seals. Have a reproduction set and not convinced they are going to fit. We’ll see.

Hood on its way from red earth hoods in QLD but hoops remain a mystery.

MPS are disputing the eBay complaint I raised. Evidently they feel that I should be taking the complaint up with the courier. In their world just because they paid and arranged carriage, the risk is mine so they can’t understand why I’m unhappy with then that they never arrived.

Currently with credit card company to sort.

Back end is on. This was the tailgate I made from scratch. It’s ok, certainly within factory tolerance , but I would probably change some bits if I made another.

Still have the number plate light and inner chains to sort, and the rub strips, and the hood hooks... but it’s nearly done!!

Also got my money back finally on the hood hoops. So looking for where to buy a set again.

Mate of mine bought bows from O/S the company cut them in half at his request & he welded them back together with an internal sleeve when they arrived. I got mine made by a guy who dose mobile pipe rolling . Made it out of alum pipe as the alum was closes to the original steel pipe size that LR used.

Unfortunately I don’t have anything to copy or any of the bits and pieces that go with the hoops so I think I’ve got to buy a complete kit to be safe.

I forgot to mention why my mate had the bows cut in half , it reduced the freight cost by more than half.

Originally Posted by Cadas

Unfortunately I don’t have anything to copy or any of the bits and pieces that go with the hoops so I think I’ve got to buy a complete kit to be safe.

I have a scaled drawing from a book I have for early S1 80" bows but that is not much help for your S2.