What did you do to your Patrol today!

[mudski]

flushed my radiator until it was clean

Probably something I should do while my Patrol is apart in the garage getting some love.

[MB]

Commenced degreasing and a hot pressure scrub a dub dubbing:



Surface rust conversion completed and primer applied thereafter:



First coat of black atop:



A few more coats and the front end of our 3.9 ratio tourer for starters is ready for Australian beach shenanigans


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[BrazilianY60]

GQ UTE or GU wagon?

[MB]

A NEW/Old GU Wagoon project BZ Brother


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[BigRAWesty]

Well now that I have the draws majority done I'm starting to work out the 12v stuff....
No plan. Just doing it the Westbrook way..
So I have run 5mm cable from main better to rear tripple anderson plug, which I feel may be a bit underdone but I'll keep an eye on it..

Kickass dcdc25A charger with solar input.


I landed on this product as it has a good wrap and price is good.
I also had the victron isolated charger unit in the bascket but it's not compatible with alternator and solar, so would have to run 2 separate units which probably would have been ok but looking to keep this simple..

I did however drop some coin on the victron shunt..
I love the app and the way it tracks.

So for now untill I sort the switches, this is how it will be. I can easily slide the draws in about out still with it all mounted which is key..


For the switches I feel like going fancy with this one... anyone used something like this??


I like that ist the switch bank, and fuse bank all working together. A touch nicer than rocker switches...

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[PeeBee]

Bit of an odd one. I have done a body swap and chop on the GQ. The original car was a 1997 model and I have used that interior. The donor was a 1991 body, that was chopped. Today I started the final prep before driving it out of the shed and getting ready for VASS engineering. I tried to get the rear seats to latch onto the floor latches, using the 1997 back seats and the 1997 catches. They required the mounting holes slotted to get the latch to land in the middle of the seat catch. All looking good except the seat catch wont receive the latch on the floor. I stuffed around for 6 hrs with this today, tried all sorts of packing and optimisation, had @AB and @MB have a look, baffling. I am fabricating a floor stiffener tomorrow morning as a packer to go right across the rear floor and pick up the two floor catches i case the floor is flexing.
Has anyone come across this before? the 1991 floor catch is way too short to operat1991 in front 1997 in rear.jpge and too low in height to pick up the seat catch. Couple of pics for clarity. I need a solution or the car wont pass the inspection.

[Plasnart]

Fck cars pb. When you think you’ve been through all they can dish out, they find another way to fck with your mental well-being. Honestly to come down to this mate you are in my thoughts.

[PeeBee]

Fck cars pb. When you think you’ve been through all they can dish out, they find another way to fck with your mental well-being. Honestly to come down to this mate you are in my thoughts.

Thanks Plassy, its fighting me right to the end. Spending 6 hours solid trying to think and react without a positive outcome, its exhausting, far worse that doing the physical. The journey has had its moments that is for sure. the end product will be good, but there are still hurdles to get over. Its been 2 yrs on this, far too long and more than enough patience expended by @MB to let this continue.

[BillsGU]

Can you get an inspection camera under there to see where it doesn't connect?

[PeeBee]

ok, would you believe there are 3 versions of the same catch? Yes, well there is and I have one pair of each. I found the third set this morning after stewing over the impossibility of the catch not fitting in the set clasp. I swapped the third set out and the seats went 'click, done. Happy days.Catches.jpg
The third set is made from a smaller diameter rod, so it allowed the catch to close.