Re: PA assembly

["Mike Hughes" <hughes.c.m@worldnet.att.net>]

Basically, the outriggers seem to have started life all the same as a "C" 
section stamping, wider on one end and then shouldered and tapered just a 
bit so that they were about 3/4 inch narrower at the outer ends than at the 
inner ends where the two u-bolt holes appear.   Something like this from 
above:

| . . |
\    /
|   |
| . |

I think that they were individually shortened and the body mounting holes 
drilled to accommodate the individual body being fitted to that particular 
chassis.

The u-bolts did not clamp directly to the chassis tubes, but rather there 
were special aluminum castings that the u-bolt clamped around to give a 
broader, more stable platform for the outriggers.

The body, forward of the wheel arches is indeed mounted by just four bolts. 
At the rear there are four flat plates, each drilled with two holes that are 
used to clamp the wooden lower rear body cross plate to the chassis by means 
of four long bolts, two on either side of each chassis rail.  This gives you 
a total of six body mounting points.

- Mike Hughes  -t?t-

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lawrie Alexander" <Lawrie@britcars.com>
To: <mg-mmm@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 5:12 PM
Subject: PA assembly


> Fellow MMM-ers,
>
> Eleven years after I brought home a basket case PA 2-seater, I have 
> finally
> made the time to begin the assembly of the body to the chassis. Naturally,
> having not taken the car apart myself, and having never restored a PA
> before, I am running into questions!
>
> The first should be a no-brainer but it sure has me puzzled. I have set 
> the
> body on the chassis and found four mounting holes - two at the rear, where
> angle brackets on the body meet angle brackets on the chassis, and two at
> the front where holes in flat plates on the body line up with holes in the
> chassis. So far, so good. However, there are, on the chassis, five
> upside-down U-bolted plates (2 each end of the two chassis cross members,
> one in the center of the forward crossmember). These look as though they
> should support something, as their flat surface is uppermost and the
> threaded ends point upwards, apparently awaiting something to be bolted to
> them.
>
> I can't believe that body is held to the chassis with only four bolts, so
> I'm guessing there are some kind of brackets that go on at least the
> outboard U-bolt plates, connecting to the side rails of the body. I have 
> no
> unidentified brackets in any of the boxes, tins, paper bags, etc., that 
> the
> car came in. Can someone please confirm the mounting method of the body to
> the chassis, and describe what goes on these U-bolted plates?
>
> TIA
>
> Lawrie Alexander
>
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