November 2007

Scuttle and Pedal Box

With the engine in place and some of the minor problems fixed it was now time to look at fixing the scuttle. My intension was to make up the scuttle with the firewall in place along with the dash but i wanted to be able to remove the dash to allow access for me to make the wiring loom and secure the fuseboxes.

It was a fairly tricky job. Both the scuttle and the dash come flat and need to be bent to shape. After folding the tabs on the firewall it was a case of lining up the scuttle to the fire wall, mark, drill and screw. Once the first screw was in i repeated this right round until the basic shape had been formed. I then mocked up the scuttle on the chassis to get the positioning right. There are quite a few bends on the Zero dash and it come in two parts. The first has the teeth around the edge and none of the middle section and these need to be folded to secure to the scuttle. The idea is the first part of the dash secures to the scuttle and the second effectively sits over the first part and rivets on. Once all was secured in place i unscrewed the dash section and removed it to allow easy access to the loom. Once i put the first dash section in it would be a while before the dash facia was put on which i'll write about in this blog.

Finally the pedal box. This was very straight forward. Bent the ally to shape, and secured in place.