Thread: Bunyip rebuild

OK so I thought I would pull the front spring packs apart this afternoon as they seemed rusty and the pack irons were rusty loose and needed replacing.
I started working on cleaning up the main leaf with the wire wheel and found these pitted areas and you can see the wear where the irons have been rubbing and wearing thin.


My question is this too bad to be reused.

Looking at your first pic, when I replaced all my springs in my series 3, they had similar marks on them, possibly not "quite" as bad though.
I bought the new set of springs through a place near Springhurst (Vic), and then had them changed over by a Pedders store, where I knew the owner. His words to me were, "you might have made a good decision replacing these, depending on how long your going to keep this pile of pus"

Just as we'll be was a good mate

Got to do some reinforcing to the front rails today.
I got a mate to cut the plates for me but her managed to bore the holes of a bit from the template I gave him. Still I am happy with the result.

I cut some out of the rear cross member too but had to cut the outrigger off to do the repair. I got most of it back together tonight but will have to finish the other side tomorrow. I am looking forward to finishing the repairs on this chassis and starting to clean, paint and reassemble.

Well I got the out rigger back on the rear cross member but then decided to cut off an old repair section to see what was under there and found this os I cut out the chassis section and replaced it and the patch.
Just about to paint it when I discovered the tin I thought was killrust primer was not, so I will have to pick up some paint next trip to town.


Have to leave it alone for a few more days now I have a bird cage to build and a few Ha of oats to sow for the girls horse hay. I will try to get the paint on in between jobs.

Well I had to wait for the concrete to harden off around the bird house posts and I managed to convince the girls that the chassis had to be moved to get the tractor and combine into the horse paddocks, so I managed to get the chassis painted with kill rust matt black and rolled the diffs back under it so I can push it around to the shed. I will try to get the rest of the chassis work done and make a run up to John to pick up that bulk head but tomorrow will be just spent cleaning up my mess sorting tools and getting the rest of the bird house posts into the ground.


Here is what the chassis looks like tonight

Peter
You have done a really great job on that chassis
When you first showed it to us I thought it was only good for scrap but you have pulled it back
Great job, well done
Pics and comment are great too. Please keep it coming
Phil B

I'm impressed! you have powered through your repairs!