paulj
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Post by paulj on Feb 5, 2019 19:42:53 GMT
Hello Everyone
I just wanted to say hello to you all, my name is Paul, I have a 1954 Riley RME, which I am about to start restoring. I am a panel beater/paint sprayer by trade. On a quick look around the car, which runs, it seems most of the bad rust and holes are in the boot floor panel and back wheel inner panels.
my plan is to take off the body. Has anyone done this trick!!!.....if so...can you offer lots of advice to Paul....who has never done this before, or indeed cut out large areas of metal and replaced them. All advice is most welcome, I am learning as I go along.
Paul
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sprite124
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sorry 65 years! can't count!
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Post by sprite124 on Sept 14, 2020 15:56:36 GMT
Hello Paul, just seen your post re taking the body off your RMhassis. I did this back at the millenium on a RMF, so even if you've started perhaps you'd be interested in what I did. The big problem is to maintain the door openings as accurately as you can, because when you put the doors back on again having completed renewing any rotten ash framing etc, you want the doors to fit perfectly, otherwise you will end up by a door or doors scuffing the paintwork as they are opened and closed. Therefore remove everything from each door until it is at its lightest in weight and then leave the doors swinging on their hinges. Then set about bracing the body to make it as rigid as possible before removing from the chassis and at the same time making sure the doors always open and shut without them touching the opening faces and are as central in their openings as possible. Got to go, but will come if I think of anything else.
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Post by Roger Holman on Oct 2, 2020 11:45:05 GMT
Hello Paul. Welcome to the ranks of RM owners.
Whilst not wishing to deny the merit if the Riley Motor Club which I joined to take advantage of some of the spares stocked, there is also another club, the Riley RM Club which caters for this range exclusively. Amongst other things the RM Club has produced a range of suppliments to the original Workshop Manual, including a 'Restoration Manual' which covers precisely the questions you are asking. Having done the job myself back in 1974/5 on an RMC I can only agree with the above posting, but the Suppliment goes into very great detail. Highly recommended and really should be compulsory reading before you start.
Best of luck.
Roger
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