Collected my Aries chassis starter kit today

Now where do I start?

with a beer?

Get it level, with plenty of space around it.

At the beginning...

Tell swmbo you wont be seeing her for a few months.

Brake lines then fuel line then turn it upside down and put the floor on if it is an ally floor version.
Let me know if you want more info.

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Originally posted by IainL
Collected my Aries chassis starter kit today

Now where do I start?

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Originally posted by skinned knuckles

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Originally posted by IainL
Collected my Aries chassis starter kit today

Now where do I start?

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then have yourself some fun by following the instructions properly. and if you don't know, don't guess. ask.

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From what Richard Quinn says, you could be in for some fun then! Maybe building from scratch ain't so bad after all, at least Uncle Ron gave us a whole book full of what-to-do's

Start another post on here asking for people's web-links to build diaries...

some are better than other's (Hellfire's is always mentioned in the positive), although in all honesty you can get suced in to their build diary and choose to read that more than build your own. Look at as many photo diaies that you can aswell, as they tell a chronological story that although it won't help any problems you may have, it will allow you to follow a pattern/trend to your own build...

ETA - scratch my first statement; do a seach for people's build diaries and read a couple of threads that indicate their own build diaries... You can look at mine if you wish, but it's prob out of date by now!

ETA2- whoops, when I said "mine", I did not mean the Locost one below in blue (that prob won't make a lot of sense!) If you click the WWW button below anyone's post it is a redirect to their preferred website. Mine is to my first hold diary from access years ago...

Regards,
Steve

[Edited on 24/1/10 by Steve Hignett]

Congratulations on your purchase !!
As said before start with fuel lines and brake lines then start hanging the wishbones and diff hubs e.t.c that will keep you busy for a couple of hours.
As regards lack of build manual thats one of the reasons i chose aries, who wants a kit put bolt "a" into slot "b" e.t.c supposed to be interesting !!!
Steve at aries has loads of pictures that he can send you if you get stuck and he'll always give sound advice on the phone.
Just get stuck in and good luck

But, as I said before, if it's the ally floor version do that straight after the brake and fuel lines. It's then lighter to turn it over before you fit the wishbones, diff etc. I think I actually fitted my brake lines etc with the chassis on its side. Means you don't have to lean over the chassis to get to the tunnel and makes everything more accessible

Also meant to say the best thing I ever did was make a trestle stand out of 2" box with wheels for the chassis to sit on, means you can move it about easily and work at a nice height.
re previous post hope you went for steel floor bit more weight but a lot less hassle.
Good luck

Thanks for all the advise, looks like I need to now by some brake & fuel lines and some floor panels.

Cheers

Give alex roebuck's site a look over (http://roebuck.eclipse.co.uk) and you good even take a look at my diary if you wanted... http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=readersrides&action=display&thread=66434