Thread: HUGH the Heritage

Thanks Pickles, It has been a long 5 weeks as one of us has been with him almost constantly. I think he is just as psychologically scarred as he is physically.

Did you get a fix for the melting mudflap? and the black crap that makes the silver look black?

Originally Posted by juddy

Did you get a fix for the melting mudflap? and the black crap that makes the silver look black?

Hi juddy, I did get a new mud flap & will use this just for best:



There are only 3 bolts (8mm) holding the flap to the crossmember, so I will just keep it for shows. My short term repair with pinch weld is holding up well & with the white tyre marker I can make it look almost like new.

Hugh's Kitchen arrived today from Drifta, the standard car back kitchen. Very pleased with the product & service from Drifta:

Trial fit with seats up:


Seat down but had to remove plastic trim from the seat fold mechanism. No big deal & the dog should be happy as he likes sitting in his own seat:



It is a cracker of a kitchen:



Also installed the Ram Mount for the iPad off road GPS:



This came from 4X4Overlander.com in the UK but is the Nakatanenga product. Again helpful service & looks like a ram xgripIII will fit an iPad 3 & maybe an iPad mini in its case.

Anderson Plug for air compressor, solar panel charger, fridge, etc. Slotted hole cut in battery cover to facilitate installation - it's just a cover!:



Final recent installation was the wireless reverse camera. Great view of the tow ball, but everything else sneaks up real quick:

Originally Posted by Avion8

Real Cool

Originally Posted by Avion8

I was going to get a glove box from the UK but postage was outright shocking, so I made one over the past two days:

Removed dash pad from the cover, fiddly spring clips, but patience & a small screw driver & they do come off. Styrofoam pad is stored for future installation if reverted back to standard. Measure from the vehicle & draw up on graph paper:



Transferred to thin aluminium sheet:



Cut out with tin snips:



Holes drilled for rivets & dash lid, then painted with etch primer & matt black acrylic. Edged with small size pinch weld to prevent cuts on the sharp edges which were deburred but still quite sharp, as I only had 0.5mm thick alloy in the shed. Pinch weld also stiffens this up:



Install front plate with two small self tappers:



Rivet lid plate, & hinge plate to piano hinge - went for the Heritage brass version. Hinge plate then screws to existing cover mount using the same screws:



Finished article looks like the original, except a tad higher at the windscreen side:



I now have somewhere else to hide stuff, like glasses which I can never find in the cubby, they always sink down to the bottom under the cd's, hat, torch etc.

Cracking thread there fella you've given me a whole lot of ideas for my 130 but the best is your glove box build. As I was found to do the same as you and get one from the uk. But having seen your build there I'm going to have a go too so thanks for your pics Anh instructions......

You have a very collectable 90 there sir.I've just seen a hugh110 here in NZ on trade me at just shy of 100K very nice but well out of my price range.......

With thanks to a austastar for his post of June 2010 on installing the longer Wolf style mirror arms. With a caravan arriving in the next couple of months I ordered a set of the longer arm, & on this wet Saturday decided it was time to install:

So forwarned by austatstar that these hinge bolts do not have captive nuts, I made a plasticard lock tool & blue tac with some extra shims of plasticard jammed between the nuts & door skin:



Removed the bolts folded out the hinge to reveal not a lot of Grasmere green paint under the hinge, some extra hairy stuff & paint through to metal on the door presumable from the rubber gasket:



You can also see the two phillips screws which secure the arms to the hinge. I have coated all of this with ACF-50 so hopefully corrosion will not be an issue!

Installed the mirror arms & bolted up the hinge. There is a rubber gasket between the hinge & the door, one on the L/H side & 2 on the drivers side!



Photo above to illustrate the difference in length, which is 130mm.

Finished job, & the mirrors only protrude 50mm further out when folded back to the normal driving position: