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  1. Interesting, because I thought about pegging them. I asked crown-diffs about it when I ordered them and he said those carriers would do 300hp okay and I was running the 3.5 RV8. That will really make them tough :)

    The beast is on so many trucks. Mirror is on a John Deere gator down the road. Big yellow tow hook is on a Mitsubishi 4x4 a bit further down the road. It lives on :D

  2. I was thinking... but I didn’t because I sold the rangy KAM axel complete... that my 88 is 40hp and I could take later half shafts, cut them down and hand grind the six hub splines on. Which is a bit cruel, but they take a V8 for most silliness, so I figured I could take some extreme liberties :)

  3. 6 hours ago, missingsid said:

    Neat, so this is going on the tailgate then? How are you going to wire it?

    Yep, on the tailgate. Wire goes Behind the the tailgate loop latch, down the galvanised hinge, cable tie at the bottom and under the body. You could drill holes and poke it down the hollow sections? A bit free and loose seems to work better.

    S2 and S3 standard plates fit better because wider. S1 never seems to fit right? I guess that is why so many were painted on. I can put my military plate there and make a new one for the front. 

  4. 8 hours ago, Blanco said:

    Looks good, ... have you done your own hinges for that, or did you have some of the bits? My RRC should have one, but doesn't at the moment.

    They are ally and nylon truck ones I bought years ago for the van. 6mm holes. Nice hinge :)

  5. 1 hour ago, Anderzander said:

    That’s an interesting set up - do you have spreader plates under the floor ?  Looking back through the photos of the other side of the bulkhead,  it looks to be just bolts ?

    Rather than put a spreader underneath that ought to be tied into the chassis, I went with this logic: 25mm by 2mm box with the nuts up the inside so it hasn’t got any welds to stress it. Six 20x20 short bits as spacers under the channel of the seat brackets. Six M8 bolts for the six galvo seat brackets that are made of 1mm steel. There are six bolts through the bulkhead which is pretty thin. Then twelve bolts at the bottom of the six brackets, six of which go through the tub and the seat box. 
    The front tub mounts have those angle section 3mm aluminium to brace them and they are bolted through the tub in two more places. So a fair amount of strength by spreading the load around and sharing. I was going to tie those in, but it looks excessive. You would have to have a spreader plate with 12 bolts under the tub to equal it. 
    Shoulder straps are a bit more tricky. Might have to go over a shoulder height bar and down. (Using the race trucks full harness rather that recoil 3-point) (they work a lot better) :) (and one is a plane latch so it looks spot on in there)

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  6. Oh my flippin’ heck gosh this is a bad truck :o Admittedly only £300 in 1986, but every single item of the body has an issue with fatigue?

    I wondered why it had some weird looking backing plate. Turns out it was a bit of scrap metal they used to hold the latch in place.

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  7. This is two coats, heavy horizontal and a light vertical. 
    I can pop the rope hooks on before a final blast :) The interior is going silver with body coloured sides. 
    *today was the three week mark since I started this task*

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  8. I need the holes height of the Birmingham landrover badge on the back panel please. 86/88 great tub.

    I have 6 holes in total. Four are very close together and I can’t tell which is right? 
     

    Also, how can the tailgate be soooo far off now that the rear panels are level? :D It is a nightmare to re-panel. (Imminent part abuse)

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  9. Nearly all the race truck sold this last few months except for the seats. I quite like the seats to be honest and they weren’t cheap.
    (£200 with a powder coated frame :o  ) 

    So here is my Bench and lathe seat :D No turntable, because I want to be able to file a job not oscillate the Idris :)

     

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  10. I gave up and connected the pot tube of an oil gun to a rose sprayer. I hold the gun in my right to control air and the sprayer tap in my left to control fluid. 
    I run wax oil or oilyoil (usually hydraulic) Anyhoo, if 10psi can push it down the sprayer tube it will blow it onto a chassis :D

  11. The 1/4” plate bars welded to the chassis. No side welds, because someone might want to remove them in the future.

    No idea what I am making the roll-bar / seat-belt-frame out of, so generic 10mm holes.

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