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Vehicle & Technical => Defender => Topic started by: lenrover on January 10, 2007, 16:18:15

Title: MY 90 BUILD
Post by: lenrover on January 10, 2007, 16:18:15

thought i'd keep a bit of an on-line blog thingy of how my build is-or is not progressing as kind of a insentive for me....plus you lot will probably spot all the things i'm doing wrong and point them out before it go's completely Pete Tong :shock:

The donor vehicle/victim (the one at the back) 1989 2.5 n/a diesel

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a279/turbominihaha/11082006137.jpg)

The strip down- if i say the o/s door and front wings along with the chassis were salvageable then it quicker than listing all the rotten scrap i've thrown away!

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a279/turbominihaha/01092006150.jpg)


stripped and most of the chassis cleaned and liberly coated with hammerite just the rear x-member to replace
(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a279/turbominihaha/27092006172.jpg)

And as if by magic! :lol:

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a279/turbominihaha/14102006194.jpg)

Nasty rotten bulkhead binned

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a279/turbominihaha/01092006147.jpg)

Brand new one painted ready to fit :lol:

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a279/turbominihaha/18102006.jpg)

Ta-Da!!!
(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a279/turbominihaha/21102006202.jpg)

Nice 2nd hand tub sourced

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a279/turbominihaha/25112006243.jpg)

Prepped

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a279/turbominihaha/17122006324.jpg)

And painted both underneath and on top(i'm hoping mud wont stick so well to a shiny surface

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a279/turbominihaha/17122006326.jpg)

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a279/turbominihaha/17122006327.jpg)

and fitted to the freshly renovated chassis(quite a relief when it lined up with the new x member!

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a279/turbominihaha/21122006345.jpg)

I have done other stuff to like fitt the dash to the bulkhead and mount the engine and box plus the seat box is all painted and lookin very nice even if its not yet fitted,But i dont have any photo's of engine/box and seat box yet but i'll keep you posted with how i'm getting on in the coming weeks



cheers Lenny
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Title: MY 90 BUILD
Post by: Snooky on January 10, 2007, 16:28:55

Any reason you have not waxoyled the chassis, or have you but not posted the pics?

Title: MY 90 BUILD
Post by: lenrover on January 10, 2007, 17:27:38

I have about 10 liters of waxoyl which  im going to put inside the chassis the out side of the chassis has been thoroughly cleened back to nice metal and liberaly coated in Hammerite i belive this will be better than simply blasting it with waxoyl as i'm building it to off road and found that mud likes to stick to waxoyl where as mud can be easily jet washed off of hammerite even when its been allowed to dry

Title: MY 90 BUILD
Post by: Guardian. on January 10, 2007, 17:40:24

looking good, look forward to seeing the finished truck.

Title: MY 90 BUILD
Post by: lenrover on January 10, 2007, 17:42:22

Quote from: "guardian off road product"

looking good, look forward to seeing the finished truck.

Your not the only one!!

Title: MY 90 BUILD
Post by: joker777 on January 10, 2007, 18:03:39

smart 8)

Title: MY 90 BUILD
Post by: Littledan on January 10, 2007, 18:26:41

very nice :)

Title: MY 90 BUILD
Post by: landylee on January 11, 2007, 17:20:57

dunt look a bad old thing i suppose but ya need to get ya finger out billing isnt that far away  :lol:

Title: MY 90 BUILD
Post by: Mudmonkey on January 11, 2007, 18:18:45

Looks good! Are you allowed to put bulkheads in your green bin though? :P

Title: MY 90 BUILD
Post by: lenrover on January 11, 2007, 20:43:23

Quote from: "Mudmonkey"

Looks good! Are you allowed to put bulkheads in your green bin though? :P

Yep round here we have a blue one for recycling :lol:  I once put a mini engine in the bin when i was about 18, :oops: