Great to see some progress. Awesome stuff!
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Great to see some progress. Awesome stuff!
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cheers
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Originally Posted by 4runnernomore
Wow can't believe it has been over a year since my last update. There has been some progress, I will get my photos together and post an update soon.
Does anyone know if Hendrik was able to finish this project?. Was really looking forward
to reading about the rest of the build and see the finished result. Cheers Chris
All,
I finally found some free time to do a long awaited update on the progress, so stand by for some long posts!
After repainting the roof and the front and rear quarter panels, it was time to install them. This was relatively straight forward.
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It was then time to tackle the rusty tailgate. The bottom rail on these are notorious for corroding through, and I had to drill out the bolts to be able to disassemble the tailgate. Rather than spend the money on an aluminium one, I thought I'd save some money and had a go at salvaging my original tail gate by fabricating a new lower rail from mild steel.
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Checking the assembly before painting, fits quite well.
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Final result came up pretty good. It is much heavier now which I am hoping will help keep it closed. Might need some heavier duty gas struts that I will flip to help keep the tail gate closed. Will see how it goes once I fit the tail gate.
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I then moved onto the wiring. Given that I completely stripped the old wiring from the car, it was my intent to use the Colorado wiring harness and just do local terminations for the lights, power window motors, door lock actuators etc. This proved to be relatively straight forward, and I added some additional relays for the headlights and got them working, as well as the tail lights, relatively easily.
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The next task was the most involved. Given that the Colorado donor was a 2wd vehicle, I kept the L230 transfer case, as per my previous posts. Given the size of the Colorado auto shifter, I had no room left on the center console for a hi-low-CDL lever, so I went down the path of using waterproof electric linear actuators. With the two actuators already installed on the transfer case, I now had to wire them up to switches on the dash through a series of relays. I ended up going with switches from Billet Automotive Switches which look great and I was able to get them custom etched to indicate their intended purpose.
The joys of wiring!
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Switches installed on the dash:
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Switch backlights connected to the headlight circuit
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New Junction box in the engine bay to power the actuators and other offroad equipment. This is separate from the Colorado loom so will have no influence on other functions.
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Managed to keep the wiring mostly neat, lots of work went into this and it took a long time. I ended up installing limit switches connected to LED lights to indicate when the actuators read their ends and when high, low or CDL are engaged.
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The next job was to get the electric seats to move. I ditched the old switches in favour of more heavy-duty switches that can be directly wired via an overload switch. The other job was to find a home for the electric window switches. Here I decided to stick with the Colorado switches as they are much better quality than the old Rover ones, and it means I could use the Colorado loom. The issue was the switch pack was too large to fit in the center console or the drivers doorcard, so I decided to mount the switch pack to the drivers seat, which meant that the loom had to be removed from the door and extended to reach under the seat, lucky I was getting good at joining wires by this stage!
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Passenger side seat switches, I still need to install the front passenger window switch. Also, these look quite ugly at the moment, but it is my intent to cover everything in vinyl that matches the new leather seats.
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Other jobs done:
New vinyl on the D-pillars
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Cleaning up the old hoodlining board, I managed to track one down in reasonable condition
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Then started covering the dash in vinyl. I am very fortunate that my partner is a gun at sewing! Here's the dash with foam applied:
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Cardboard template made:
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Sewing the vinyl cover together:
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Vinyl cover glued:
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Great update thanks.