So after a couple of days of heavy rain the yard turned to slush, it took 2 patrols just to pull the chassis out to where we could load it onto the trailer, in the dark, in the rain... lovely.
anyways got it to my parents and put in in my old mans shed after soaking it in degreaser, blasting it with the pressure washer, soaking it in degreaser again and blasting again. now it's a little more respectable and a bit easier to work on.
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I've decided to use the diesel chassis so i can play with it a bit with no cab on it. so today i ripped off all the bits of the horrible exhaust system
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removed the factory sway bar disconnect and split it apart so i can use the plate to run extended aftermarket disconnects
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i removed the rear shocks and springs, one of the shocks has a bent shaft must have happened when the control arm broke. here is a quick snap of the control arm removed from the car with the previous owners dodgey repair, .
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now with everything out of the way i started making some rear coil tower bracing plates, i just cut a strip of cardboard 100mm wide (same width as the steel i had and was the widest piece i could fit before the pressed curve started on the towers) then just bent and cut it to the shape i wanted and transferred the pattern onto the steel with a sharpie, grabbed out the grinder and started making noise, was going great until i ran out of steel and it was 4:50pm i'll have to get some more tomorrow and get the plates i have already cut bent to a 90 degree on the marked line.
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so as i had hit a roadblock for the arvo on the coil towers i set my attention to the engine mounts, pulled out the passenger side, you know the factory two-part engine mounts
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i cut what was left of the rubber off the base plate and trimmed up the sides, cut the bush housings off the busted control arm, then drilled through a piece of RHS steel with a hole saw
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that's as far as i got today. i'll get some more steel tomorrow and hopefully get the engine mounts made and the coil tower braces ready to weld at a minimum, have to see how i go, most of it i'm just making up as i go along, that's half the fun
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