I’ve had my Jup nearly 30 years now and have always wondered what the two strange screw fixings were on the rear chassis, as shown below. They are about 1.5 inch’s long & come down at an odd angle. So whilst under C19 house arrest and taking the time to go through things, I decided to take this shot. Can anybody enlighten me please?
Strange chassis fixings!
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Re: Strange chassis fixings!
They are not standard.
Are they perhaps part of an anti roll bar?
Are they perhaps part of an anti roll bar?
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Re: Strange chassis fixings!
Good point, but they are quite far forward of the axle. I have looked under many Jup’s over the years and never seen anything like these. Yes, they are not standard, but they were very professionally done by the looks of them.
Originally I thought they might be for fixing an under tray, but it’s the angle they are welded in that’s wrong for that. You couldn’t push a single sheet or a bar on from the below with them sticking out at that angle. They seem never to have been used, or if they have, the threads which go right down have no wear.
I shall probably never know. It may always be one of its secrets from a previous life!
In the nineties, i spent much time trying to trace previous owners, as in the 1970’s, less than 20 years earlier there are records of it in both the Midlands and Scottish sections, but I got no responses from any members who might have remembered it around at that time. I did however, manage to track down its original owner, speak to him and he sent me a nice letter. That story, including the owners bits of backstory I could gather & his secretive life, is worthy of a decent detective novel!
Originally I thought they might be for fixing an under tray, but it’s the angle they are welded in that’s wrong for that. You couldn’t push a single sheet or a bar on from the below with them sticking out at that angle. They seem never to have been used, or if they have, the threads which go right down have no wear.
I shall probably never know. It may always be one of its secrets from a previous life!
In the nineties, i spent much time trying to trace previous owners, as in the 1970’s, less than 20 years earlier there are records of it in both the Midlands and Scottish sections, but I got no responses from any members who might have remembered it around at that time. I did however, manage to track down its original owner, speak to him and he sent me a nice letter. That story, including the owners bits of backstory I could gather & his secretive life, is worthy of a decent detective novel!
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Re: Strange chassis fixings!
Might have been an overdrive support similar to the one I have on mine.
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