It might not appear so but the GQ project is advancing.....
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It might not appear so but the GQ project is advancing.....
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Progress report.
The hilux chassis pictured in the above post sat around taking up room for far to long, the Corona hit and for some reason I got motivated....the car went from the chassis to driving in about 4 days and is now a farm ute destined to cart horse feed around the paddocks for ever.....
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Once the hilux was out of the way I moved the patrol wagon into the shed. I started to strip it....but home schooling has slowed progress.
Stripping most of it is pretty straight forward, I unpicked the radiator support from the wagon as the leaf ute has the early MQ style front. I will use the wagon rad support, guards and grill.
THe leaf ute didn't have boost assisted clutch so that has been put in from the wagon, the wagons brake booster is bigger so that is in the ute too, these swaps meant engine bay brake and clutch lines needed to be swapped. Most of the pipe clips on the firewall are brittle so I will order some new ones.
The wagon body is close to being lifted off but it's easier to leave it on right now while I swap everything.
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I must have missed the start of this. Welcome back mate.
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Progress woohoo haha.
Keep motivated mate I'll lend a hand when I can.
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Slow but steady progress, as much as I have wanted to rush and lift the wagon body I have resisted and stripped everything I want from it as it will be much easier to access now as opposed to when it's resting on a trailer....It turned out to be a bit more than I planned....the hardest part so far has been undoing the electrical plugs...due to some minor physical limitations I spent an hour trying to undo one!!!
I wanted to keep the swaybar disconnect the ute had everything bar the bracket for the lever which attaches to the underside of the steering column...so I began stripping that out and have decided that the ute will also get the upgraded tilt steering column, (I bet that only ever gets used once)!
I also wanted the Jesus bar so dash out...the wagon had trailer brakes so that was stripped too definitely installed by an auto elec on an hourly rate...neat job and about 3 packs of cable ties in all the hard to reach places.
Clutch and brake boosters both fitted to the ute, ute also needed an accelerator pedal and hand throttle so they are in too
As I packed up this evening I took all of the tools out...apart from the trailer plug and fuel filler lines the body is ready to lift! I will have a crack tomorrow if I get time.
Hopefully the weather holds out so the chassis can get a clean and a quick coat of paint.
Big thanks to the forum and its contributors being able to search the odd bit of info for the best method of removal or install or just browsing other people's builds late at night for idea or while dreaming about how much of a beast this ute will be (it probably won't be haha) is a great help and motivator.
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Wagon body lifted! Came off pretty well there was 4 electrical plugs on top of the chassis for the fuel sender and tail lights, they were a bit of a pain but all in all another productive day and step closer. I used a block and tackle to sling through the doors and an engine crane to balance the back.
Tomorrow wash and paint chassis if I have time.
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Nice job mate they k funny apart like that. Any idea how the clutch is? Now is the best time ever to change it if need be. Takes like half hour. I don't mind with body off. Just use engine crane to sort the box and slice it back. So much easier haha
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It drove fine home.....but no idea really if I can get the chassis painted while the weather is still ok, I can then push it back in the shed and start to sort out suspension and running gear...chasing a GU front diff housing caliper to caliper and a 4:3 rear diff centre if anyone has them.
Early start out there at 5:45am, Mrs was stoked at the karcher going before sun up!
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Yesterday afternoon
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This morning.
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After a degrease and pressure wash.