Thread: Meet my 90, and share the adventure.

'Damages the finishes', 'fancy talk', I don't know what to do! 🙃 If fancy is having a back seat to put my tools under I guess my Landy is a fancy bush truck then 👍 ...PS: No such thing as damaged finishes on a Landy, only patina 😎

Good thinking chaps!

Just got back from an overnighter- same place I was last weekend.
Had a nice camp oven stew for tea, a few bevvies with mates... until a pack of blokes rocked up in the late evening and asked me to move my 'jeep' out of my camp spot because there were 'lots of them' and 'they always camp there'.

I think some people didn't get the memo about the bro-code of the bush- namely dount be a douche-bag and annoy others who go to the bush to relax and get some peace and quiet.

On a different note, went for a stroll along the Namoi river (upstream from Warrabah), spotted a heap of wildlife, including skinks, bearded dragons, wallabies, wild goats, carp, yellow belly, and a red belly black snake (which I almost stepped on 2.5km away from camp).

'Campsite ownership' is very uncool.

I hope you stayed put Mitch.
Cheers, Billy.

Originally Posted by MrLandy

'Damages the finishes', 'fancy talk', I don't know what to do! 🙃 If fancy is having a back seat to put my tools under I guess my Landy is a fancy bush truck then 👍 ...PS: No such thing as damaged finishes on a Landy, only patina 😎

I knew I'd cop that.

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

I knew I'd cop that.

He he glad you liked it

Had a bit of a run-about day today. But I did get to spend some quality time with the Landy. It was one of those days that started with an idea, and progressed into a wild goose-chase finding what I thought I needed, and finding it after a protracted trip around town.

Picked up an ammo box from the disposal store. I've been looking for something to hold some tools in the rear of the vehicle, and this will work nicely. Previously the tools I had in the vehicle were under the driver's seat, but this was getting cramped, and I found most stuff was just being stored in the load space, as I was too lazy to pack it all away correctly once I had finished with it. Removed the stickers with a heat gun, gave it a scrub and wiped over with some wd40 to get the rest of the sticky crap off. I was pleasantly surprised with how well it scrubbed up.



This will fit nicely behind the passenger seat in the channel below the cross brace bar, and between the wheel arch, and the seat back. It is easily held in place with the seat back.



Finally mounted the hi-lift / shovel holder, after giving the parts that got the die-grinder treatment a lick of cold gal paint and some Orkney grey from a touch up paint bottle I had. The paint is not a perfect match to the Kaymar bracket colour, but for a bloke of my artistic persuasion, it's close enough, and I'm not too bothered It's only on the inside surface of the shovel handle, so give a bloke a break eh?!



Took a second trip to bunnings to get a padlock for the jack. I know they are cheap and not really a huge target for theft, and I'm probably just being paranoid, but I'd rather be certain that it's secure, and not used to bust thru the windscreen when I'm not around. Bonus points for more matching grey parts!



There is a bit of buggerizing about to get the lock on (involves removing the handle to lift the bar up enought to get the lock in), but looks good enough IMO. With a few strategically placed cable ties, it's almost rattle free! I'll also consider a neoprene sleeve for it some time down the track, as a seized/rusty Hi-lift is more of a death trap than a good one... which is still pretty dangerous!
I am also looking to order some shear nuts for the U bolts that attach the bracket to the roof rack. This will mean that I'll need to cut the U bolts to get the bracket off, as would anyone else


I also made a contraption for helping to secure a tarp to the roof rack as a makeshift awning.

I'll get around to a proper awning one day, but until then, a tarp and some guy lines will be more than suitable.
Just a caribiner clip and some paracord- can be clipped on, or looped thru, the tarp, and tied off to achieve whatever crazy tarp contraption I come up with.
Paired with these,

I'll be able to cobble together some interesting setups, which should be good over the coming months. I'll get some pics of it all set up some time.

Going to Bretti Reserve near Gloucester this weekend, so will get to put it to the test, and report back!

Originally Posted by Toxic_Avenger

...After a number of hours practicing my DC lift-arc stainless TIG welding skillz (or lack thereof), I came up with this:












My TIG is rather appallilng, and admittedly there was a lot of grinding and re-welding pin holes where I was walking the line between burning thru the thin material, and getting bugger all penetration.

Machine settings were:
DC TIG, 35A, No ramp up, 3 seconds post flow.
Argon gas, 10LPM flow.
2% thoriated (red tip) tungsten, balled tip.

I'm going to work out a way to mount it, and see what happens. It's fairly rigid in torsion, so should help prevent the mud flap from going into the exhaust flow in it's own right, but whether this is sufficient to withstand wind at 110km/h is yet to be seen.

I've still got some tweaking of the design, to make it fit properly in the opening of the fap. I did experience some warpage of the material despite my efforts not to put too much heat in one section.

Finish will most likely be some kind of sturdy black. Sadly my welding efforts mean that it wouldn't look 100% if polished up due to all the poor fit-up and porosity

G'Day Mitch, Just read your thread from start to finish,...Very interesting indeed, and you are a very clever man!
The "Melting Mudflap"!!!.....Your "fabrication looks EXCELLENT. I was wondering that if any part of these were in the path of the hot exhaust gases, then they would heat up & melt the rubber?....So, did you ever fit them, and if you did, how did you attach them?
Thanks, Pickles.