Thread: Saving the defender

Love the Raptor liner paint and heat shield Andy. Wonder if the Raptor would look any good on a D2....

Originally Posted by gusthedog

Love the Raptor liner paint and heat shield Andy. Wonder if the Raptor would look any good on a D2....

I think it would look great :-)

Matte black, Murdered out. Do it.

Originally Posted by Toxic_Avenger

Matte black, Murdered out. Do it.

X2.

The firewall is on, thanks to Toxic, it only took us 5 minutes and was motivated somewhat by a bribe of pecan pie.

Thats how I remember it anyway.

I also got the heat shield finished on the firewall and most of the sound barrier in the footwells/ inside of the firewall today.

Next part of the project is covering the seatbox with same.

firewall showing the peel and stick heat shield :

firewall heat shield.jpg

peel and stick sound deadener:

sound deadener.jpg

Firewall back on....hallelujah :

firewall back on.jpg

It was exactly like that. The pie was amazing.

Surprising how long this job takes - probably a total of 2 days work so far just to get the first two boxes of sound deadener and heat shield on.

This is the sort of job you only want to do once on a vehicle, so I guess I'm taking my time to ensure its a quality job.

Many months ago now, I had the seatbox sandblasted and then gave it 3 coats of KBS rust seal. I also seam sealed the gaps in the joins after that. So, I'm comfortable to now cover it in heatshield and sound deadener, as the surfaces are newly paint and the box was 100% rust free.

Before putting on the heatshield I have lightly scuffed the surface of the paint - I figure a scuffed surface will give a better purchase than a very smooth shiny one.

Seat box from rear showing progress of sound deadener:

seatbox from rear.jpg

Underside of the seat box where I've started placing the heat shield - should have this finished today :

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The peel and stick sound deadener is easy to work with. I've opted to cover 100% of the seatbox, firewall and front floor - though you could get away with 60% coverage :

soudn deadener seatbox.jpg

There have been more than a few occasions over the last several weeks that I've wondered "now where the _ does THAT go?" I really understand now the ability to pull something apart, put it back together - and still have a few bits lets over .

However, on the whole, give or take a few bits here and there, things seem to be coming along nicely.

I got the rear of the cab sprayed last week and with the help of Grant, got that back onto the chassis on Sunday:

Before:

before.jpg


After:

after.jpg

I even managed to get the glass back into the corners.

Next in line, the heater box has been cleaned, treated for rust and is now awaiting 2-3 coats of KBS rust paint:

heater box.jpg

note, the excellent state of the foam 'bits' which all need to be replaced.

Moving on....the new door hinges also received their first 2 coats of raptor. I think one more coat and we can call then done:

hinges.jpg

Last of all, the mess of wires that used to run down the inside of the chassis to the rear were cleaned of mud and muck, inspected and then re-wrapped in fireproof electrical tape. They now live ontop of the chassis rail inside conduit, as getting them back down the chassis rail will be mission impossible given the baffles in the 130 chassis.

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