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    The Fire truck

    Born in Japan in 1983 as a working fire truck, it made its way to Australia not long after. Unfortunately it has no fire fighting gear left, other than zips in the headlining and a cylinder thingy under the bonnet, and PTO drive. It has a P40 ( 4.2)petrol/gas engine and a 4 speed box. With only 107,000 kms, it has a long way to go. Was on Gumtree for many months for the price of $1700, with lots of rust monsters. Mr ' I love a deal' dragged it home for $450. It was missing the grill and headlights and did not go. Mr 'I love a deal' got it running within 12 minutes. It had a burnt out wire. So, 4 weeks exactly later, it now has number plates. I'm hoping to have it as a work car. Onto the important bit.....
















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    Time to start stripping it down, cutting lots and lots of rust away and replacing.


























    After all this work, these guards weren't used. Rust free replacements were found.
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    Bloody gem. I used to fight fires in something very similar.
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    Top view of drivers floor and sill







    Welding up the Drivers floor


    Under drivers sill




    Left hand floor


    Rusty firewall half cut out



    Top of roof


    Top half of fire wall removed, where the wiper mechanism goes

















    Air duct for the heater


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    SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much rust..




















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    When you finished Kat we can go fire trucking...lol
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    The roof gets started





























    Inside the cab...............












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    Quote Originally Posted by AB View Post
    When you finished Kat we can go fire trucking...lol
    Hah. Your hose is bigger than my hose !!
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    Quote Originally Posted by katwoman View Post
    After all this work, these guards weren't used. Rust free replacements were found.
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    Making one firewall out of two.


















    So it wont rust again in my life time.

















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