Sunday, April 30, 2017

Alternator Panel completion

So, Anyone who can remember as far back as when we put the body shell on might remember that there was a bit of a squeeze near the alternator (front left/nearside of the engine) against the front inner wing. Talking to AK this needed resolving if not for aesthetics then technically it's not great for it to be resting against the stainless cladding. The way to resolve this is to cut a hole in the wing and the cladding and then put a backing plate on the other side of the wing to fill the hole to stop rubbish being thrown into the alternator from the tyre. I was also going to use this as a mechanism to pull the wing into shape a bit more as I have had a niggling feeling that I wasn't brutal enough with the cladding on that side (it was the first one) when I was bending it into shape.
View inside the wheel arch of the alternator hole cover plate.
 
 
View from inside the wing of plate filling up hole. Couldn't clean up the edge of the cladding that much as it's a bit tricky to get to but this is fine.
 

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