Dutton Kit Cars and their owners
S1 Rebuild(s)
some pics of the rebuild process,
the top trailing arm bracket is broke......
the diff is sloping back a little (looking up) so that will need sorting.......
As you can see there isn't a lot of bracing in an S1 chassis, that will be sorted.
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Permalink Reply by Dave Adams on
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a busy weekend just gone.....chassis is almost fully modified and i have started painting it. the bits that need welding can easily be bare metalled and then repainted later.
i have also trial fitted the Hillman imp front shockers......on the front of the car, it needed the top mounts moving up and inwards about 30mm.
i have to fabricate the lower wishbone mounts (easy) and modify the rear top mounts, but its getting there.
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The rebuild begins.........
the floor has been fitted and the chassis painted, just the suspension parts to clean and repaint and the car will be back on ts wheels real soon....
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here is a picture of the MX5 manifold i have with a Zetec adapter plate over it......the manifold needs a little dremmel work and it perfect, also none of the Mazda's mounting holes fouls the Ford ones so a few extra holes drilling some counter sunk bolts and the jobs a good un!
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thought i would clean up my rear axle and repaint it and fit it to my car....thought i would. you see i suspect this car has been i an accident as the N/S front chassis leg is bent and the O/S chassis leg as well.......so when i started cleaning the axle i noticed the rear dish of the diff housing was stove'd in and holed where it had hit the bearings supporting the diff. so i had to weld it up to make it oil tight......yeah that's where the issues started the metal was corroded thin as well oh and the filler plug just fell off! Its supposed to be welded in place.
all in all its been a bit of a bodge.
and the Dutton factory dodgy welding has reared its ugly head again....the shocker axle mounting brackets are .....er were very poorly welded to the axle tube, not anymore.
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The rear axle is almost fully painted.......
once its dry .....i will flip it over paint the top...and then fir it to the car
one thing i would like to know is from what car was this axle? any one can tell from the brake back plate?
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no, the wheel cylinder is a twin piston slave held on with two bolts, the hand brake fits in that oval mounting and is a self adjusting mechanism much like modern cars with a sliding ratchet wheel. unlike the previous cars i have had (4 now) which had sliding slaves and a single piston with adjusting screw at one end......
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Permalink Reply by Steve and Matt Pegrum on
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Wow I can see you in the reflection. Is that another Dutton behind you?
(thanks to smartphone zoom)
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There is a Legerra behind me.....and a Fiat Sciento...
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Permalink Reply by Paul Sheridan on
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Not an Atlas, they have one casting with a diff pan on the back, it is an English axle, but dont know what from.
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Nope....just the one axle.
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i have tried to work out the diff ratio....yeah i know i could have counted the teeth before i put it back in, but i forgot. it looks like either 3.7-1 or 3.9-1 i will check it again later.
I thought the atlas was related to the Salisbury axle and had the diff removable from the rear, this looks like an escort axle, i just don't recognize the hand brake linkage or the slaves....it uses the rod to activate the handbrake to the N/S with a cable to the O/S like the early fords....just puzzled as i have to replace the slaves because whilst brand new they are seized solid. and to order some i will need to know what they are from.
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Just had a look back through my rebuild pictures, and they are the same as my ones, which are from a Mk2 Escort Van.
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