MudRunnerTD's GQ From the Ground Up

MB · 2nd February 2018, 01:45 AM

Take it easy you deadly mob ;-)
Thanks to MRTD & ET blokes like us be still alive and recovering:-)
Cheers!

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**NissanPatrol.com.au** · 2nd February 2018 01:45 AM

**Lights** · 2nd February 2018, 10:31 AM

Originally Posted by Winnie

Who is we? How many years has yours been off the road for @Lights?

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A bit over a year Winnie. Nothing broken but needed to get some more bar work on it to try and keep the panels straight.
It's all done and ready to go, now just waiting for Darren.

**MudRunnerTD** · 4th February 2018, 08:02 PM

Was a little slack this weekend but did get out today and spent some time in the GQ.

I scored another Bonnet with the snorkel which was already cut for the through bonnet snork but as is often the case the guy have just hacked out the hole with his teeth and left it exposed with rough edges. It was never going on my car like That!!!!

So off with the bonnet today and I cleaned it up

Used some cardboard and shaped it into the cut and marked put a template.

Used that to trace out on an old piece of roof cut I have here and poached some panel out of it.

I got the mig out and tack welded. Played around with the welding settings alot which was great to tune it in for Panel steel. NO I took no pics of welds

Looks pretty good. I ground it nice and neat. I sprayed it with a primer and can see I need t9 touch up a couple of sections of weld that I ground out. There ain't much steel there!!

Looks heaps better

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**Avo** · 4th February 2018, 08:08 PM

have you got one of them new arials that pick up the radio(wireless) through the windscreen....and ya fenders dirty..make it white again

**PeeBee** · 4th February 2018, 08:09 PM

Darren, you are very clever dude, hats off to ya! Well beyond my skillset and certainly beyond my fear of F***UP threshold. Need to get a 240V mig tho as even with my super arc welder, this thin stuff is beyond me.

**MudRunnerTD** · 4th February 2018, 08:56 PM

Originally Posted by Avo

have you got one of them new arials that pick up the radio(wireless) through the windscreen....and ya fenders dirty..make it white again

Nah I have one of those short rubber aerials from Super Cheap. I would not run anything else. It takes a beating in the bush. Yeah I scored another passenger front quarter off a guy without the snorkel hole. I am going to repaint the car in the next few weeks as all quarter panels are damaged and have been repaired. Need a paint.

**MudRunnerTD** · 4th February 2018, 10:12 PM

So while I'm.busy head down PPE on with safety glasses and ear plugs and hat grinding away at my bonnet today I heard a noise and looked around to see.my mad wife running at me with the garden hose she had been using to full the fish tank. I stopped grinding and said what are you bloody doing?? She just pointed as she ran passed me!!!!.

So as it goes, I'd been grinding away. Thought I smelt someone light up a tobacco pipe which was weird!!

Nup!! I lit the bloody backyard behind me!! Fortunately the grass is short and sparse.

Damn!! It had travelled across the front of the shed and was burning low between the shed and the GQ!!!

WTF!!

Crazy stuff. It was not that hot today. I certainly kept an eye on things for the rest of the day!!

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**Avo** · 4th February 2018, 10:21 PM

that calls for a stop work meeting and a few beers i reckon

**Rossco** · 4th February 2018, 11:02 PM

Bonnet looks smicko Daz when's it getting painted and what else to go ? ?

Nice bushfire could have done some backburning around the front tyres

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**MB TD42** · 11th February 2018, 07:44 PM

Working in rain hail n fire to build the ultimate rig...sounds like a good story...on the bright side...wont have to edge the lawn for a bit...lol

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