Swirl Pot

Following fitment of the rear brake pipes focus is increasingly turning to getting the differential fitted (must get my act in order and arrange the heavy labour!). A weekend trip to Iceland is coming up on the rails so the fitment will be delayed a while longer.

so some spare time and a quick-ish job is the fitment of the swirl pot located ahead of the drivers foot wheel panel.

GBS provide a plate for locating onto the chassis frame which acts as a surface for the left hand side of the swirl pot to locate onto via some rivnuts whilst the right hand side sits on the chassis frame near to the transmission tunnel.

the fitment of the plate is slightly awkward in the sense you need to drill at an angle to get the rivets located but a good centre punch and slow drilling prevents the drill wandering and you can get a clean hole drilled with some perseverance and patience.

Next up, rivnuts. Another step into the unknown, not used such a tool before so spent the first half hour working out how it worked, which mandrel fitted the rivnut and remembering to screw anti clockwise to tighten and clockwise to unscrew, all very confusing!

9mm holes need drilling into the plate and chassis frame once marked up on masking tape, looking at the holes they looked way too big but when the rivnut is put in and the tool applied to the rivnut to compress the fitting it is all good and secure and four rivnuts later we are good to go and fit the swirl pot....


Some slight opening up of the holes in the swirl pot to allow clean access for the four screws and hey presto one swirl pot fitted.

results thus: