Spencer has been moving the metal plates about the workshop and I've been bolting in the fuel tanks.

Well I think you can see that the end is in sight.

That is the end of fitting plates to the seat back/roll hoop.

As you can see the tank frame is also coming along very well.

Its hard to fit in there, but goes in.... just.

Spencer is measuring the panel to make sure we cut it correctly.
We used high tensile button head bolts and special glue to bolt and bond the new panel to the seat back and under the roll hoop, this will make it extra strong.
You can see the special bolts in the pictures as we are admiring our handy work!

This is the roll hoop and we are moving it out of the way.
While we are moving it I slip and the hoop falls on my paw.......OUCH

As you can see Spencer is much stronger than me and can lift it easily.

I should have worn my pawtectors to stop my paw being squashed, but its ok now as I had a nice cut of tea to make it better.

Spencer is removing the roll hoop so we can fit the extra panels that arrived today.















We are working together to unbolt the roll hoop, Spencer is turning the ratchet to undo the bolts and I'm holding the spanner on the nut.











These are the stays that bolt to the rear panel and this time I've got the ratchet and Spencer is holding the spanner.

















The bolts are easy to remove and it didn't take long for the hold thing to come off.

Spencer and myself are working extra hard to day in order to make some headway on the imporvements to the chassis.
We are having problems with the weather as well and find it hard to move the car in and out of the workshop when it starts to rain so we jacked it up inside and will work on it there!

(Things would be so much easier if someone would let us work on the car in the front room!!)

Here you can see me taking off the wheels after we put the car on axle stands.

Here I am with my two cat's Pearl and Portia (Portia is on my right)
We were talking about the cat food budget and how we might include more sausages in it.

Here I am looking for some new shock absorbers as Spencer told me that the shockers we have now are USELESS!!

But a terrible thing has happened................ All my money has gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Spencer has now let me know that persons unknown have taken the entire budget and spent it on SHOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

whats a poor bear to do now,how am I going to get all the parts I need??????

I might have to send my cats out to work!!

Spencer checking the rear shock absorber mounting is ok, we have had some troubles with these and hope to change them soon

Here is Spencer using the pillar drill to drill a hole in a metal bar.

We have all the latest hi-tech tools and equipment in our workshop.

After he's done that he'll be making the fuel tank support.

He's such a hard working bear!!

This shows some more of the work we did to improve the strength of the rear suspension mounts.

It took us all day and at the end of the day Spencer and myself were KNACKERED.

Here I am fitting bolts to the upper box section as well.
To get the nuts on the inside of the box sections Spencer had a fantastic idea to use a short length of pipe , to which he attached a ring spanner. We then used blu tack to hold the nuts in the spanner and pushed it into the box section to meet up with the bolt.
I held the pipe while Spencer used the allen drive in the rachet to tighten it all up. Teamwork!!!

Here I am under the rear of the car fitting some new bolts to the box section that support the wishbone pivots.

Our first design of this car involved the using of self tapping bolts in this area, but to make this stronger I am replacing all the self tappers with high tensile (10.9) pan head bolts and nyloc nuts.

We have also used a sealing/bonding agent around the bolts and washers to help them resist corrosion.

Well here we are, Spencer and myself in our office
working on some plans for improvements to the
chassis. I've done some drawings for a strengthening
plate to fit behind the seat back and bolt to the
roll hoop.





and I hope you can see me on the phone calling another engineering company to have this plate made up!!