Time for a Re-fit

Righto, bits keep coming off - and the more I remove the more I want to remove....

She's a little tatty, but basically sound.

The dumbirons need sorting, a few other bits of welding here and there, and the firewall/bulkhead is a bit of a mess, but I guess it'll scrub up alright.

Then it's just a quick matter of new brakes and lines, repaint the body and bung it on, overhaul the front axle and steering and so on and so forth until I think I'm finished. But they never are, are they?

One nice surprise has been to find that the bolts for the firewall to outrigger are not only easily-loosened, but that they are pretty easy to drive out of what's been their home for 45 years - and to thing that this vehicle used to spend a lot of time on the Cooloola coast.....

John

Hey John

Was just wondering how you are going with your rebuild?
It been awhile since we've seen a few pic,s?.........Please:D

So you must be getting close to finishing by now?.... It's almost Easter ;)



Neil

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Originally Posted by Lostkiwi

Hey John

Was just wondering how you are going with your rebuild?
It been awhile since we've seen a few pic,s?.........Please:D

So you must be getting close to finishing by now?.... It's almost Easter ;)



Neil

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Hey Neil,

Yeah, I've been slack. I will try to post some photos this weekend. We're down to just the chassis now. Next step is cleaning it up and repainting it. I organised for a mate to paint the bodywork, and have just heard that he's moving to Mt Isa on Tuesday, which sets things back a bit.

Of course I am also trying to find a bulkhead/firewall which is better than the one I have. It's repairable, but it would be pushing the relationship too far to ask the poor mate who fixed up my chassis to take on the job....

Easter?? Did I say that? I must have meant Christmas. It'll all be over by Christmas....

Cheers,

John

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Originally Posted by Johnno1969

Easter?? Did I say that? I must have meant Christmas. It'll all be over by Christmas....

Cheers,

John

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which christmas :wasntme::angel:

Righto then. In January, we got down to business: the rest of the bodywork and the bulkhead off (that bit was surprisingly easy....the big ol' bolts were pretty easy to get out). The it was out with the transmission and then the springs and axles.

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A mate did the dumb irons... a beautiful job.

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He's just finished replacing the crossmember beneath the bellhousing (I don't have pictures yet of the new one, but check out the condition of the one it replaced).

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The new one looks fantastic and is much stronger than before.

More to come in the next post.

John

A bit of work on the rear outriggers too, and it has come up really well.

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I'm sourcing some new front springs, brake lines and countless bits and pieces...

Got hold of two doors, complete and in beautiful condition with virtually no rust in the frames or window channels. Amazing, really. Much the same went for a "new" radiator panel: much better than my original one, and not cut and modified and abused as mine had been over several engine and radiator changes.

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The chassis is ready now to be sandblasted and painted, and the bodywork is on the way (it's sitting in my front room and I am gradually getting it ready for painting).

That's basically it for the moment. I'm still looking for a new bulkhead, so if anybody knows of one out west in a paddock somewhere just let me know, eh?

Cheerio,

John

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Originally Posted by digger

which christmas :wasntme::angel:

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Maybe I had better not get carried away with predictions....

Hey John, could you make the pic's a bit bigger please, love watching other people work and what they're working on.Thanks. :D

Tonestar.

No worries! Sorry if they were small... I've just got into the habit of scrinching them down to e-mail them. I'll attach a few "repeats" here to fill a few gaps.

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I cleaned up one of the doors today. It was amazing...it's over forty years old and, when dismantled, was pretty much free of rust. I've got the steel frames back to metal, put on a coat of rust converter (there was a bit of surface rust here and there) and they're ready for priming and painting.

One thing that's a bit of a pain in the proverbial: When I was getting back to working on it this morning, I discovered that some nasty types had been into my backyard last night and nicked a bag of tools which I was using for the job. It included some of my very favourite screwdrivers, which I'd had since I was sixteen. I don't think the police place much importance in the sentimental value of screwdrivers (though they were terribly good ones), but I told them anyway.

Took my ball pein hammer, too, the bastards.....

Can I say "bastards" on this forum?

John

P.S. Because they would have been.

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Originally Posted by Tonestar

Hey John, could you make the pic's a bit bigger please, love watching other people work and what they're working on.Thanks. :D

Tonestar.

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P.P.S. I just checked, and if you double-click on the original photos they open in another tab, nice and big and easy to see. Cheers and I hope that you enjoy 'em.