Thread: My 2a freshen up

Originally Posted by OneOff

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Panel work is next for me.....I've never done any panel beating in my life before so I'm not too sure how to approach it...

Peter.

Very carefully and gently with aluminium panels.

Cheers Rod

Ps...im leaving my dents in. Too scary for me..

Originally Posted by OneOff

Very impressive, as is your pile of firewood!!



Peter.

Aim is to have all three bays of that woodshed stacked to the roof within the next month cutting season ends on the end of November but it's hard yakka later in the season in the heat

One bay stacked 6 rows deep equals one winter burn

A little car progress pondering seat belts at the moment and how to fit in a topless configuration.

Not sure if I need them for rego

Cheers Paul

Originally Posted by 67hardtop

Very carefully and gently with aluminium panels.

Cheers Rod

Ps...im leaving my dents in. Too scary for me..

I agree Gently with a good dolly behind

Rod is there any chance you could post a picture of those series 3 seat belt mounts you showed me in Adelaide.......I vaguely remember them being on tub wall but I could be wrong and just can't picture them now, should of taken a picture while there

Cheers Paul

Ill try Paul,

Shoulder mount and reel at the bottom


Rear mount of the reel inside the tub is just an alloy plate.

The mount plates under the front lip of the tub where the buckles and lap centre belt are mounted.

The strap that bolts from the buckle mounts back to the chassis s3 onwards.

The shoulder mount brackets for lwb van style body.

I dont have a pic of the lower mount but its the same as current defenders in the rear corner of the seat tub.
Hope this helps.

Cheers Rod

Work on 2a has slowed a bit due to DELWAP doing some roadside clearing providing some easy get fire wood

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Did some work on bulkhead aligning

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Which led to the invention of special tool #2

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Bulkhead is now parallel to tub, I unwrapped my doors to find bubble wrap had telegraphed into finish so sand and respray ....have left over paint

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Cheers Paul

Nice firewood!

Originally Posted by grey_ghost

Nice firewood!

And a real easy get you can drive right up to it....we've done ten loads so far, so five or six to go to fill our wood sheds to capacity
Probably 3 years worth of burning....what usually happens is after they clear roadside they wait for it to dry out a bit then burn it ....I don't think they will risk it this year with the bush as dry as it is....fortunately their are only 50 permanent residents in our little town so there's plenty for everyone

Cheers Paul

Darn I was that I lived closer to you!