MudRunnerTD's GQ From the Ground Up

[neixian]

A true mud runner. I h8 mud!

[MudRunnerTD]

Ok been busy under the hood over the last month. I am getting a few things sorted while it's parked up. I am getting it ready for a bigger airbox and hopefully a stainless snorkel through the bonnet at some point.

I have moved the Fuel Primer pump and the vacuum tank to the drivers side and stripped a heap of other crap off the fire wall. I removed the clutch bleed hose and tube and replace the hose and block to allow for the removal of the extra bleed.

This is a Big Job and will take some nutting out to put Humpty Dumpty back together again but it's getting there

Before.

ImageUploadedByMotorculture1417255717.035066.jpgImageUploadedByMotorculture1417255788.784233.jpg

Fuel primer now attached to drivers side battery tray just above the fuel pump. The copper fuel pines across the fire wall are gone.

ImageUploadedByMotorculture1417255902.098558.jpgImageUploadedByMotorculture1417255939.568543.jpgImageUploadedByMotorculture1417255976.751926.jpg

I relocated the vacuum tank and used the copper tube as the primary supply to the tank rather than from the tank just to the clutch

ImageUploadedByMotorculture1417256111.134936.jpgImageUploadedByMotorculture1417256154.784918.jpg

Getting there

ImageUploadedByMotorculture1417256181.318530.jpgImageUploadedByMotorculture1417256213.034889.jpg

Stripped out the clutch bleed valve as it's pointless. Phill at the 4WD Shed sells a replacement hose and block without the bleed for the win.

ImageUploadedByMotorculture1417256334.168391.jpg

Removed the redundant dual battery solenoid and wiring and pulled back a few wires that were no longer being used.

I am going to move the fuse block and have to remount it and sort out al the accessories that were going to the second battery that no longer exists. A bit to do yet but it's coming together

From this

ImageUploadedByMotorculture1417255717.035066.jpg

To this

ImageUploadedByMotorculture1417256558.169997.jpg

To this

ImageUploadedByMotorculture1417256580.086537.jpgImageUploadedByMotorculture1417256593.351178.jpgImageUploadedByMotorculture1417256613.905176.jpgImageUploadedByMotorculture1417256642.835856.jpg

Coming together.


Sent from my iPhone using Motorculture mobile app

[megatexture]

Yep looks like a real pain in the ass.. Time consuming kind of work.

[BigRAWesty]

Not bad. I've always wondered why the fuel comes down the drivers side, up across the fire wall to the filter then back over the firewall to the pump. Weird

[BigRAWesty]

Also did you mold steel line to new positions or just run rubber hose?

[MudRunnerTD]

Hi Kallen, yeah has always had me too. Just dumb. So the fuel lines come from the back along the right side in copper or steel. Then a rubber fuel line for about 300mm to another copper fuel line that goes across the rear fire wall to the passenger side and then rubber again the the primer pump. From there it's rubber back to another copper line across the fire wall to another rubber fuel line from there to the pump!!! Just a big loop of pointlessness!!!

I got a bracket of a later model GU that runs the primer on the drivers side, there was stuff in the way to fit in the same spot so I cut it up and made it fit off the battery tray. I then removed the big loop. The clutch bleed was worse!! All this massive loop of copper tube to nowhere!

When I have finished I will take a pic of the pile of crap I have stripped off!

The Vacuum on the drivers side makes so much sense too!! Really pleased with how it is coming together.

Mega you are right, just chipping away at it mate, tedious and time consuming. I have to complete each task as I go, there was just a rediculous amount of stuff finishing in that corner!!!

[Bloodyaussie]

After advice from Gary I put the filter on the drivers side when I did my conversion... even has the holes there ready for it.
1417316927620.jpg

[MudRunnerTD]

Yeah my brake lines were in the way to use those holes but did consider them, it was just going to add more work so decided against that spot. I had a good look at it and tried to get the bracket in there. I have mine mounted where you have put your catch can.

[Bloodyaussie]

Yeah my brake lines were in the way to use those holes but did consider them, it was just going to add more work so decided against that spot. I had a good look at it and tried to get the bracket in there. I have mine mounted where you have put your catch can.

Yeah I had mine slightly in the way and gave them a gentle persuasion...

For me the issue is the cooling lines through the firewall hitting the dump pipe?

From what I have heard having the fuel filter on that side makes it a mile easier to bleed up the line.

[dakka1]

hey dude what page of this MASSIVE thread do I go to for the high mount install. im just trying to see where and what and how when it comes to water or oil lines and drain etc