Thread: Little Miss Adventure

Originally Posted by cal415

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..

yes Cal we weren't going to strip it down that far 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

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!!







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.





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

I mean, if a jobs worth doing etc etc......and you are half way there now

the firewall looks alright,its always good to lift an engine out

Originally Posted by midal

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

I mean, if a jobs worth doing etc etc......and you are half way there now

errr no. the engine worked beautifully before we took it out if we go "fixing it up" it will probably never work right again.

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.