Expense, Expensiver, Expensivest

Well another year has passed and since then bad and good things have happened with the TVR. Firstly the cracked rear uprights were sent off to a specialist welder who claimed they could be fixed.....and then promptly rang and said he'd tried and well.......they couldn't! At least I wasn't charged anything, but I had to source two newly cast uprights, which were EXPENSIVE!!!

So having had the new bearing shells pressed in by my local engineers, I proceeded to carefully tighten the drive flanges, crushing the newly installed crush tubes to the required end float. I then installed the reconditioned brake back plates and new brake cylinders, adjusters, shoes, springs and drums, along with new superflex bushes for the wishbones and upright.....ALSO EXPENSIVE!!!!

Finally I had to take a deep breath and order 6 new AVO shock absorbers and 6 springs from Adrian Venn at Exactly TVR. They look lovely but were also VERY EXPENSIVE!!!! I made my own lower pivot rods from EN14 steel, but as you can see from the photos, I need to cut them down a bit and cut some more thread on them as well as fabricate some spacers to fit between the upright and the shock absorber.

Next stop a rolling chassis!!