Finally it is time to take care of the mess the sway bar made six months ago. The area has been cleaned up and two scraps of steel about the same thickness as the original small mount plates were welded onto the frame over the holes.
NOTE: The sway bar had been attached to the frame with larger than standard bolts. In a stock installation those bolts may have snapped instead of ripping off the frame.
Alpines and Tigers have saddlebag gas tanks and here you can see mice have packed the area under the gas tanks in each fender full of junk. You will want to clean these out so that it doesn’t hold moisture and rust out the bottom of your fenders.
Recognize this? Under all of that mouse junk was hiding the original tire hold down. After sandblasting and powdercoat it will be as good as new.
All of the rusted metal parts have been cut out so new sheet metal and panels can be welded in.
Here is the old set of tires sitting with five new Sumitomo HTR 200 175/70R13s from the TireRack. This will be a big improvement over the old tires.
Still sandblasting the car when the weather is nice enough and sandblasting and powdercoating the small parts the rest of the time.
As the car heated up the shop overnight the pressures came back up in the tires and the right rear blew sometime when nobody was here.
This is the Tiger. It took four weeks to get here so now that the snow is on the ground we won’t be finding what problems it has that could be fixed this winter.
