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Thank you Sitec and thank you Mick Marsh, Ive got the parts back here in whyalla, they are all still in the back of the defender, didnt get home till 3am, up at 6 for a 12hr shutdown that become a 16hr shutdown then back to bed again!
I really must have a week off and get into the shed!
knocked off early and decided it was too nice an afternoon to waste.
first up strip the wax coating off of the front spring hanger to find the chassis number, bad move, I managed to find 9610.......... bugger, the pitting that bad that the other half of the number has become part of the background.
while I was there I decided to see how much chassis rust is hidden under the wax.
the front outrigger barely resembles a pattern, and to make matters worse I scraped clean through the fuel tank, bugger!
Time to clean the shed out, finish wiring it up and put it in there and strip it to the chassis.
It has to be done, time to get the 2a engine tidied up for corowa, this wont make it now.
Ah bugger!! That bad!!? Look on the bright side, they come apart easily, and it'll look awesome when done!! :)
got keen in the last couple of days, pulled the remaining bolts out and what didn't undo pulled out of the tray and lifted that clear of the chassis.
I can now get clear access to the rear end.
A good mate turned up and in a couple of hours with a fair bit of scraping and a 2500psi water gun we have managed to expose almost all of the chassis down to bare metal.
It is clear that all but the front outrigger on the drivers side need replacement and just the last two on the off side.
will pull the fuel tank out next week to see what really needs repairing or just use it as a pattern for a replacement, its not the original, but a fabricated unit anyway.
while we were playing, we checked the spacing opposite the fuel tank and there is enough room to fit a 65L water tank that I had floating around, might have to sort that out before I put the tray back!.
included are a couple of photos of the unit prior to cleaning.
Easter is not that far away.... ;)
Ahhh! Don't say that! I've still got a ton of things to do to mine before then too!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sitec
got a bit slack today, went with a couple of mates along the top of the Darke Peak range then spent the afternoon lazing at the beach at Pt Gibbon.
Took my 130 with a patrol, pajero, prado and a jeep just to make the path clear for them to follow!
enough incentive for me to get my 101 on the road to put it through some of my backyard country!
back into it tomorrow, got to set up to cut off the rear cross member to see how much fabrication will be required to repair the chassis rails to fit the new rear member parts.
I had a huge stroke of luck the other day, a good friend managed to get his hands on a new old stock brake master cylinder.
The only part of the braking system I wont have replaced after this will be the load apportioning valve on the back end, with the tub off it isn't looking too good, will try my local supplier, he has been good with a lot of old stock in a long established business.
If only I could get as lucky with x lotto
He got any more!? Mine's playing games.Quote:
Originally Posted by mark_coffey
attacked the rear cross member today, looks as though the rear war held up with paint and silastic and just the top sheet of the original outriggers.
Someone has built a replacement and welded it to the existing tinwork, where the weld didn't take, they used silastic instead and painted it!
and a photo of a new old stock master cylinder