[Tigers] More Frame questions - with PDF for your viewing

[Ron Fraser]

Tom 

You ask a great question; how accurately were these cars built back then???

 

Today’s vehicles have a tolerance of + or- 3mm = + or – 1/8” tolerance.

 

Since many of the Sunbeam Tiger history books imply there was always careful inspection of all aspect of the Tiger build and since Rootes controlled the assembly of the body frame unit; I’m going to say the tolerance was probably similar.   Anything larger then that would leave you with a car that could be difficult to assemble or adjust to manufactures specifications.

 

That’s how I see it.

Ron Fraser

 

From: Tigers [mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Tom Witt via Tigers
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2016 10:56 AM
To: daniel doornbos <dan_doornbos at hotmail.com>; tigers at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Tigers] More Frame questions - with PDF for your viewing

 

Not to start a “Tiger Sledgehammer Story 2.0” but is it possible someone went bashing about to make headers fit?  From what I saw in the pictures there is no obvious point in the underside of the fenders to indicate the front clip was ever replaced. Yet to have gotten the frame/inner fenders that damaged likely would have required replacing the external sheet metal.  My car did not show that type of frame/inner fender damage and yet the front clip “bowed” at the peak of the wheel opening from some form of (prior) accident requiring replacement. Just throwing a possibility out there in the hope that regardless of how it looks, the actual alignment may not be so bad.  Measuring between common location mounting points diagonally should give you an idea. That said, how accurately were these cars built back then???

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