A bit of work on the old steed on the weekend. .
Gave the chassis a good clean with the Karcher, looking a bit more respectable now. .
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A bit of work on the old steed on the weekend. .
Gave the chassis a good clean with the Karcher, looking a bit more respectable now. .
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Last edited by Rossco; 2nd July 2017 at 06:32 PM.
Woops pressed send before i finished. . .
Installed the boss coil tower braces. Everything was going too easy and i thought i was a right smarty pants by hooking the back up to the block & tackle undoing the shock & sway bar taking tyre of and droping axle down- worked an absolute treat. Started undoing the bump stop bolts, was a bit tight then thought I'll get the rattle gun onto it what a great idea. . . Then snap! bugger!
Tried welding the bolt back on, was real right but tuning thought i might get it then snap sgain, couldn't get it to work after that. Didn't like the idea of drilling but didn't have much choice so drilled out the old bolt & re-taped and came up pretty good to my surprise.
Did a bit more cleaning and started painting chassis with a brush as much as i can get too, looks pretty sweet.
Had a great idea to use the 50mm body blocks for the mounts under the cargo floor where the body sits on. . . They work perfect☺ kinda needs them as one of the rear mounts on the chassis had a crack which i fixed.
Also took some more pics & stared at the shiny engine bay in the sunshine.
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Can't believe you let that shell get wet outside...
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Well it's not like i can put it in the house . . . Oh hang on a minute just gotta try somethingOriginally Posted by Winnie
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Hehehehe you need to shoot a nice vid panning around your sexy engine bay mate.. lol
Yeah the rear bump stop bolts are a bastard. I snapped 2 on the hi and had to drill and tap a larger thread. Was a bastard. Might even have had to use a helicoil in one of them.
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Rossco (2nd July 2017)
Yeah it was at that point i thought better rear the instructions, and there it was. . . "Take extreme care and pre lube bolts to avoid snapping in the captive nut as this is common" Ah bugger ! !
Manged to tap it to the same thread and was pretty good, although wasn't game to reef on it to hard doing it up but was holding pretty nice. .
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Love your work Rossco , envious to say the least , it's a massive job you've undertaken .
Going to get mine back up to scratch then sell for a 2.8 or 3.0 litre GU , now that I have permission from the boss for a Duramax conversion .
Only might be a couple of years off for the conversion but it will give me a chance to add the stuff I want .
Rossco (2nd July 2017)
Cheers mate, yeah really enjoying it to be honest, big job, but so far seems to be going to plan. Got one more week then taking a week off work to work on the thing, can't wait. Also lucky the panel beater is close to work and patrolapart is close to home, they have both been really great. ☺
Ooh duramax noice ☺ ☺ . . .
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MudRunnerTD (2nd July 2017), Stropp (2nd July 2017)
Yeah but your project is one I will remember , the duramax is drive in drive out where as yours will give you so much more I reckon .
Rossco (2nd July 2017)
I hope your not using the company that is in lilydale for the conversion. Thats if they are still there.
Stropp (2nd July 2017)
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