MudRunnerTD's GQ From the Ground Up

[BigRAWesty]

Got a bit done on the weekend. So everything is tacked up right.... So I need to unbolt everything and remove all the bar work off the car to get a heap of welding and grinding done ready for paint. I unbolted the rear bar and stupidly tried to remove it alone and broken the left darling wing off!! Grrrrrr. Cleaned it up and got Naomi to hold it while I tacked it again. Needless to say Naomi helped me unbolt everything.





I also did some work to my winch. It's been in pieces but just need to put it together, might grab a Freespool blanking plate I reckon.




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Nice work..
How did you go setting up the little mig in the end?

[MudRunnerTD]

Yeah pretty good mate. Playing around with the feed settings a little but the power setting has worked a treat. This bar work is a good job to tune it on as most of it's the same, a grinder fixes everything.

Have concentrated on slowing it down when welding to the 16mm to really get a pool into the plate. Hopefully I have achieved some penetration.

[MudRunnerTD]

So I have been super slack with the GQ and all my bar work has sat in the back yard with surface rust all over the raw steal. I lost motivation.

I'm back into it after a weekend in the highcountry in rossco's GQ and a huge recovery the following weekend got me itchy to get muddy.

So found some motivation and for on the grinder and wire wheel and did the final clean up.

I stripped my bullbar again as the water based paint I used didn't like the UV much and went a little cloudy. I hate oil paint to use but have bit the bullet and using a quality oil based enamel etch primer and now an Oil based enamel.

3" foam roller I have found is by far the easiest way to paint bar work.





















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[AB]

Good to see the motivation back mate and keen to see the scrub bars on, mine are still sitting in the shed damn it!

No slip joint on the scrubs to sliders?


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[MudRunnerTD]

Good to see the motivation back mate and keen to see the scrub bars on, mine are still sitting in the shed damn it!

No slip joint on the scrubs to sliders?


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Nah I fitted the Camberg joined close to the bullbar and you can see the tail on the rear of the sliders for the rear scrubs.

[Rossco]

Whoh nice one, good to see the motivation rolling again. Yeah the GQs are a beast enjoying the rebuild heaps but hanging to get mine going again. . .

Bar work looks smick as ☺

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[Winnie]

Nice work Daz, time to get this beast on the road!

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[MB]

Shit Hot Dazz, keep pushing forward hard mate!

[mudski]

Nice work there Darren. You make the front bar too?

[MudRunnerTD]

Nice work there Darren. You make the front bar too?

Nah the front bar is a "FAT" bar. Unfortunately the guy that made them went mining and stopped making them. Arguably the best comp bar made. Everyone else has been trying to make them as good ever since. Great bar.