Thread: My 1955 86" rebuild.

Mate, in a word, No I haven't. I went outside to look at it but can't do that either ATM as it's upside down, and I have a rotten head cold
but in 2 other floor replacements (Series 2/2A) that I have done in the recent past I used 3mm alloy sheet, cheers Dennis

Op Rubic's cube in force this morning, moving vehicles about to accomodate my needs LOL, I had to do 5 vehicle movements before I could achieve what I wanted . anyway it all went smoothly without too much stress.
113-372 was put into action to drag the Series 1 out of it's hideout

I couldn't move it, I found out later that all the brakes were dragging big time!!.
Once it was out in the open, turning the steering was the biggest issue, then moving about 25 feet on the crank handle, I thought once we hit the concrete driveway it would be a lot easier, wrong!!.
I bought our 110 in on the game and dragged it all the way down the front yard, and with a NOS 7.50 x 16 NDST tyre between the 2 bumper bars so to speak, my wife drove the 110 and I navigated the Series 1 back down to where it is now, mate was I sweating LOL.

so I could put the gunbuggy where the Series 1 was, and 112-501 where the gunbuggy was. 110-850 has gone to a temporary home out of town in a garage out of sight etc.
All this took place because I want to repaint the chassis, I'm not entirely happy with the paint job, so a complete strip down has happened

in the meantime I have had several issues today with my SVT heart rate 160++ not good, it happens when I get stressed about doing things, anyway I managed to get on top of it all and complete the job, now to clean it all over the next few days and if the weather holds I will paint the rear end and re-assemble, then start on the other end , cheers Dennis

Take it easy mate, get your engine right before you worry about the bloody car!!

It looks great, fantastic watching the step by step thread...thanks..

PS: have you thought about a multi story carpark/workshop area?


Im always willing to babysit one particular vehicle....

Hi Dennis

Had a simalar problem with my engine 220 bpm was the highest recorded, now a doctor has computerized it, it talks to the hospital over the phone and has a better memory than I do. My wife is pleased as the doctor actually found a heart and have had plenty of solar panel on the hat jokes. The doctors are polite also as I think they know about the sudden heart rate increase at 5am in the mornings. You just get a smile and a comment that ''it all seems to be working well then''.
But the best part is that I cant die untill someone comes to turn me off !

Cheers Steve

PS Dont stress, It can kill you.

My Misses put her thumb down when I was getting recurring bouts of severe pain in the base of the skull. After a merry old chase around conventional and alternate medications, She now has me on a low sugar diet and that seems to be working for me.

When I step out of line the Wife hits me with a book, 'Sweet Poison' by David Gillespie

Look after that ticker mate.
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I washed the chassis down yesterday afternoon after work, and this afternoon I sprayed the first coat of Gloss Black on it, nice colour Gloss Black, I can't put up an image as I don't know hpow to transfer the image from imageshack to AULRO I suppose I will have to learn somehow, my photobucket is at capacity, anyway cheers Dennis
ps thanks for all the thoughts n words, I think I might have overdone it a tad, not as young as I would like to be,,.

Hi Dennis,

Do you have a smartphone? The reason why I ask - I was running out of capacity on my photobucket account also. Photobucket had a link that suggested I download their free "mobile" application.

Which I did on my iphone and I instantly got 10 times more capacity!! It's their way of trying to get you to use their mobile application.

I have no intention of using it on my iphone - I just downloaded the free application, because I wanted to get more space!

And as the others have said - look after yourself!

G. G, I showed the wife your post, she has a iphone thing and knows how to use it, I don't though LOL, anyway she now has the app and I have the space
the first coat of paint applied this afternoon

I will remove the 2 x lifting handles for the final coat of paint, and hope that the weather holds long enough for me to paint springs and diff/housing etc.
On Thursday I'm working in Maitland, so I will drop off the rear brake wheel cylinders, to have them fitted with S/Steel liners, anyway cheers Dennis