gq rebuild

well started thursday night by pulling the bonnet off windscreen out radiator and air-con condenser out. nice early night. friday after work down to hall 4x4 to get a break booster and master, from there straight out to yarra glen start on pulling dash out, pulling trims off. removing wiring from front of car. unbolted drive shafts and exhaust from engine n gearbox, fed the wiring loom back into the engine bay for the simple reason of the amount of wires on the engine was way to confusing so all wiring ontop of motor in a nice birds nest haha. unbolt engine mounts cut front rad support to make the motor removal easy from the old 1. out comes the motor at 1.35 am wow whatta night. big clean up the home time.
saturday arrive weather looking amazing for the best of our knowledge lucky we have a monsterous shed. now the motor was out time for the diesel lines to go in as the new shell was petrol gas and they had cut the lines. so after 5 hours we finally got the lines over the rear spring tower shit of a job trust me. remove the gear box from the engine. lift engine in mush easier than expected honestly went in like you wouldn't believe. engine in time for gearbox. wheel gearbox round and under truck.what a job. took a bit but got her in and bolted.. time for exhaust and drive shaft. and feeding the wiring loom through that wiring loom o how fun u r. 2.00am comes knock off time..
then brings us sunday. road to truck flooded the cops wanted us to go round through yarraglen n take the by-pass when the truck was just at the end of the water so we risked it n through we went bit of fun actually. cops didnt mind think they foun it amusing lol. bolt fuel pump on radiator and air-con condenser in. dash in all wired n sexy. time for the moment of truth. how good r we.. well in goes the key. turn once, turn twice here we go......... third times n she running what a relief we actually did something right..start pulling door off seats out. doors on new 1 n then home time. what a relief hopefully today is the last day.. have a good 1 :bigthumbup:

Great news mate, got your PM too mate and will respond as your just around the corner.

Don't forget to take heaps of photos mate!

What a write up & congrats on what sounds like a job well done mate....................Got any pics to go with that??????

Top effort mate - like above, any happy snaps??

photo diary please

I'm knocked out just read about it, well done that man.

we had no indicators couldnt work it out

called AUTOELEC gunna be costly cant come till wednesday...today been trying to figure it out for ages... auto elecs walking up the driveway while im having a look under dash find a plug

..............................OH NO


hazard light plug not plugged in woopsies hahahahahahahahahahahahaim trying with the fotos guys sorry i didnt take many tho go to carried away

Well the bright side would be no charge for labour or parts. . . Good work dude.

Sounds good mate would love to see it as you go

What motor did you put in... or are planning to... may be getting a RD28T thats thrown a timing belt... bent valves.... researching ways to fix as options...