Nice work! i didnt think you had planned to strip it that far down? you may as well take it right back to a bare chassis and decide if that one is worth salvaging or not, you will no doubt find more rust hidden in there somewhere..
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Nice work! i didnt think you had planned to strip it that far down? you may as well take it right back to a bare chassis and decide if that one is worth salvaging or not, you will no doubt find more rust hidden in there somewhere..
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Originally Posted by cal415
yes Cal we weren't going to strip it down that far:D however we decided that we wanted to paint the axles and the chassis and thought what the hell we only want to do this once :lol2:
So far the rust on the pic above (which was hidden by the foot of the tray) is the only rust we have found on the whole thing apart from the firewall footwell...which we knew about very early on.
So the rear of the cab is the last thing to come off if that doesn't have rust under it then i'm happy and the chassis will just get painted asap:)
good work dullbird getting stuck into it.have you cut out that bad rust in the chassis?it is pretty bad are you sure it hasnt travelled further up the chassis? anyway keep the work and photos rolling watching with great interest
no haven't cut it yet....
everything else is as solid as when its knocked. the reason this section has rotted is because moisture has obviously been trapped between the chassis rail and the tray which we have taken off so it hasn't rotted from the inside out more the outside to in. if that makes sense.
from the Look of the rest of the chassis I would be truly shocked if the insides were rotten...the chassis appears to be in very good condition apart from that one spot which was hidden
Ok so engine is out. The task was made very easy by the help of Andrew (Shonky) and Mark (Isuzutoo-eh) and of course Andrew's engine crane..thank you both once again for your help!!
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...2010/05/58.jpg
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As we took out the engine we decided oh well still got a couple of hours to kill as the engine pull took less then 40mins so we decided to pull out the gearbox as well to make it easier to paint the whole chassis.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...2010/05/61.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...2010/05/62.jpg
even after pulling everything out it still appears that the only piece of rust we have is the piece documented further back in the thread....most of the chassis doesn't even have surface rust:)
Next thing on the to do list is, taking a wire brush to that firewall and see whether or not its a keeper...I have a feeling that rather then paying to fix a few things on this one we should be looking out for a second hand one in good condition.
Weeellllll.......now that the engine and gearbox are out you might as well give them a good overhaul also. At least that way you know you will have a totally good vehicle that will last you for years without problems:p
I mean, if a jobs worth doing etc etc......and you are half way there now:p
the firewall looks alright,its always good to lift an engine out
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Originally Posted by midal
errr no. the engine worked beautifully before we took it out if we go "fixing it up" it will probably never work right again:D.
the gearbox might get some bearings...:)
...and since you have the chassis to that stage, you may as well take off the firewall too!
Thanks for the snags. :)
ok so there is no rust behind that bog it was a purely cosmetic thing to cover up damage that is there....Toss!! now I have to put it all back in again :D
Look its snowing in my garage and because I was so keen to get this started I forgot to cover everything up!...........Doh!!
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God knows what caused this damage
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there is actually a large dent where my finger is pointing..its all pushed in.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...10/06/1954.jpg
so as you can see its all dented and stuff and it looks like the filler was purely put on as a body repair job not to hide anything sus
This is the other side where the crack was I have no idea why there was filler on this side because the amount on there was nothing mm if that. It was a minuscule amount
but you can now see the crack a little clearer.. so I guess this is a stress fracture or something. hopefully weld-able.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...10/06/1955.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...10/06/1956.jpg
So now I think the firewall is perhaps worth keeping.
Just need to get one of these
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and possibly one of these so I don't have to go bogging up that side again..I'm guessing just weld this in place to tidy things up a bit better
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