MudRunnerTD's GQ From the Ground Up

[MudRunnerTD]

Very helpful thanks Kallen. I was pushing today. Cheers mate.

[MudRunnerTD]

Here is a better pic of the gap I was dealing with. Not too much.
















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[Winnie]

Looks good Darren. Can't wait to drive Mt Sunday with you!

[BigRAWesty]

Here is a better pic of the gap I was dealing with. Not too much.
















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That's not a gap.........lol
That's a peno gap..

[MudRunnerTD]

Yeah the gap shown in the first pics is what it looked like after I cut the plates off to show the angle difference. That's how much I had to trim. Got them pretty close.

[threedogs]

You've mounted them the same as I did on the troopy, I drilled and tapped 4 holes with 1/2" UNC thread,
in the corners of some 12mm square plate, then welded those plates [3] to the chassis then bolted the
steps to them. Must admit as you would know they are as strong as. You can jack the whole side off
the ground they are THAT strong.

No name cooking spray is way cheaper than anti splatter, smells better too LOL

[Shummezz]

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.

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

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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

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Getting there

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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.

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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

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To this

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To this

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Coming together.


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Hi Mudrunner,

Please can you put up some more pics if you have them of the current positions of all the fuel lines and clutch etc and how you managed to mount them? I'm keen to add a snorkel and dual battery setup under the hood on the passenger side. The clips holding the current lines are all buggered on my GQ so I would see moving these as a win-win.

Cheers, Chris

[MudRunnerTD]

Bugger sorry Chris I will sort out some pics for you mate


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[MudRunnerTD]

So did a bit to my weld on rack on Sunday. I am going to add a flat rack to the back so I can carry a bit of fire wood or whatever. The cross bars are there so I might as well.

This is how I bought the bar work



I cut it off that roof some time ago and have been planning it for ages. Time to get it done.



So I'm going to add 5 bars running front to back then weld mesh on top of that. As I said, it will not change the height of the rack at all so I might as well.

I cleaned off the paint at the 5 points so I could weld the new tube on.

I test fitted the first one.



So I don't have a notching machine but watched a pretty cool YouTube vid a few months ago which explained notching without a notcher well. Piece of piss!!

So. This is how it's done.

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Measure your tube diameter.

My tube was 25mm.



This system uses 1/3s. Divide the diameter of your tube into 1/3s. My tube is 25mm so 8mm is approx 1/3.

My tube needs notching at both ends so I ADD. 1/3 to both ends (16mm) and cut to length.

Put a mark on top and bottom of tube dead centre. (The longest part of the notch)

Now put a ring around the tube 1/3 back from the end (8mm on my tube)



Now place the tube in your cut off saw. Centre mark straight up. You want to set the angle of the cut to be end of tube at the centre line back to cutting on you 1/3 line on the side.



Then spin the tube over and your bottom centre Mark will let you do the opposing cut.!!

Your Done!!!





Clean the up with a grinder if needed!

Straight off the cut off saw!!







Come up good I think. Need to clean up my welds and weld the mesh on top. Then strip all the paint off it and prime and paint ready to weld onto my roof!!




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[Winnie]

Looks very good Darren!