A Caterham Seven Blog
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Telephone Call 2 – Williams, Track Roll Over Bar
The first task today was a simple one – a call to Nick the parts guy at Williams Automobiles. I’d decided, for better or worse, that I wanted to go with the track roll bar and not the standard one that I had ordered and had delivered with the car. Lindon at Williams had recommended…
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Build Session 6 : Headlamp and Indicator Pod Assembly (the short version)
Ok, so the front suspension is now starting to take way longer than I anticipated. I’m 6 sessions in and still not completed what I thought was a simple part of the build. A lot of the problem is that I’m not getting many long sessions in. It just goes to show how difficult it…
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Build Session 5 : Front Suspension 2
It’s Saturday and I was hoping to get a good day’s build in – guess what… didn’t quite go that way. I didn’t get up as early as I was hoping and so didn’t get into the garage until around 11AM. The first task however was a trip to B&Q (Lowes equivalent for our US…
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Build Session 4 : Front Suspension 1
It had been a busy week at work and I hadn’t had a chance to get on with the car other than 20 minutes to look at the poorly threaded harness mount yesterday. Today is a Friday and a work day… and after sorting out all my morning emails I found a couple of hours…
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Build Session 3 : Tapping a Poorly Threaded Harness Mount
A simple job today… when the car arrived there was an obvious problem with the inboard off side harness bolt. The car is set up for 4-point harnesses and it now seems that Caterham, not only pre-attach the hood and the boot cover, they also pre-drill and set up the attachment points for the harnesses.…
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