John,
If I understand what you are talking about.....I have a problem that may be
somewhere on the same line.
I saw some door air shocks on a car in Laporte and eventually made a purchase
for my car and my fathers car. We bought the exact shocks that John Rowe has in
his car and when we tried to put them into our cars they were too long. We
noticed that the lower shock brackets are different on all 3 cars that we have.
Also, and more importantly, I noticed that the distance from the roof at the
B-pillar to the rear floor pan appears to be as much as 1 inch different between
the cars.
I am sorry that I cant help you more with the exact problem that you are
having. I am sure that someone will be able to help to figure out the problem.
Everything must have all lined up when you first started to take the car apart
so it will go back together (but obviously not without a fight)
Maybe we can determine some inside measurements of the Bricklin to see if
they vary from car to car. Anybody care to measure?? (either to determine that
they are different or that I am imagining things....)
Jamie
note: we eventually found that we could modify the lower shock bracket to lower
the mounting of the shock to make it fit. (although not fully completed yet)
-----Original Message-----
From: John T. Blair [SMTP:jblair@exis.net]
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 5:08 PM
To: Bricklin@autox.team.net
Subject: Floor pans
Well, I finally got the rear floor pan back under the body. Now all I have to
do is finish gluing the quarter panels to the rear floor pan, and to the B
pillars.
But I have a question for anyone. There is a metal "L"ish bar that goes
across
the car at the B pillars. The rear vertical portion of the front floor pan
is glued and pop riveted to this. Where this bar turns horizontal and goes
towards the rear of the car, there are lots of holes in the bar that aligh
with holes in rear horizontal lip of the front floor pan. Now that I have
everything in place, there is about 3/8" to 1/2" air gap between where this
bar is horizontal and the horizontal lip at the rear of the front floor pan.
Is this supposed to be this way?
When I put the front floor pan in place, I aligned the holes in the rear
vertical wall of the floor pan with the holes in the vertical portion of
this bar and held the floor pan in place with screws and nuts. I also
bolted the front of the floor pan to the fiberglass portion of the firewall.
Then I checked the side panels for fit. Once everything was lined up I put
glue on the back of the floor pan and pop rivited it to the vertical portion
of the B pillar L brace. Then I glued and pop rivited the side walls in
place.
If I were to drill out the pop rivits in the vertical portion of the L brace,
and try and jack up the floor pan the 3/8 - 1/2" till it is flush with the
horizontal portion of the L brace, I'm affraid that this will move the side
panels up that much, and they won't fit.
Anyone had this problem? Anyone have any ideas if I'm right having an
air gap there? I've though about making a small wooden shim to put in the
air gap. The only problem then is, I don't think I can get pop rivits
long enough to go through the metal L brace, the wood shim and the fiberglass.
I'm open to comments or suggestions.
TIA
John
John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair@exis.net
Va. Beach, Va Phone: (757) 495-8229
48 TR1800 65 Morgan 4/4 Series V (B1109)
71 Saab Sonett III (71500840) 75 Bricklin SV1 (0887) 77 Spitfire
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