Lawrie,
I have the same (or at least similar) mounting brackets, but since mine is
an Airline Coupe, I don't know how similar the mountings are. However:
The brackets at the ends of the cross tubes (on mine anyway) bolt directly
into holes on the body subframe. Actually on the Airline the rear two bolt
onto forged brackets which are in turn also screwed into the front of the
rear wheel arch frame (wooden) and the wooden pieces which form the door
threshold.
The front two brackets bolt onto the steel body irons which form the
subframe of the body.
The brackets in the lateral center of the frame should have 1/4" BSF studs
sticking up. These insert into the floorboards and the driveshaft tunnel.
I hope this is of some help, but never having an open-top P-type, I can't
help much more.
Cheers,
Lew Palmer
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mg-mmm@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mg-mmm@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Lawrie Alexander
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:13 PM
To: mg-mmm@autox.team.net
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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