Episode 17 - The Barry Carter work out, step 2
so having been duly chastised by Mr Carter for omitting photos of his carefully executed craftsmanship, I shall endeavour to give a better representation.
On original inspection prior to dipping, it was observed that the inner offside wing was severely distorted due to a previous smack on the backside. The inner wing was effectively pushed into the engine bay in a nice compound curve. When Barry originally saw it, the curvature was so 'nice', he speculated that it looked like a factory mod. Sadly not though as these photos reveal.
Following some prior pulling, some of the bend had been removed but as these shots show with the rear wing removed, there was still much to do in terms of removing the bends. .
Barry took advantage of the fact the oil pipes are very firmly brazed into place on the wing, and brazed his own tags on for more pulling. These were brazed these behind the 90 degree join in the pipes which already exhibited some cracking.
After a lot more pulling and some judicial work with the hammer and dolly, the profiles were 'adjusted. As you can see though, there is considerable damage around the oil console pressing.
Finally, the pulling tabs were released, and the pipes themselves tweaked into their correct positions and straightened back into round pipes.
