The New Beast!!

[Ian_R]

Well not your usual new toy thread but one that should be fun. Needs a wee bit of work to be made good! but has the potential to be a weapon off road! only picture i have just now is the below one - which is not one i took, but will add my own as i go along!! Bargin price too!!

 

[Ian_R]

Well managed to get it back to our unit, what a balache that was, we had a car to tow a trailer, never had a trailer, got a trailer never had a car to tow it, but got there in the end! Not much done today with it, and never got a before picture, but i've whipped the seats out and cleared all the mud and the remaining s**te out and in the process found a rail of Mac Tools sockets, so thats a bonus! Started taking the gearbox out today for another one to go in that came with the truck and also got it running and sounds as sweet as a nut!, But the only pic from today is the gutted inside, still need to take a wet rag over it tho!

 

[Ian_R]

Well tackled it yesterday, managed to get the old gearbox/transfer box out - and the new one in, lets just say doing that was not pleasent, the amount of bolts missing in the bellhousing was crazy - so drilled out as many as we could and put new high tensile bolts and locking nuts on. Not got any pics as its changing a box, but when new one in it moved Just need to sort all the fluids out and next job are the lack of brakes.

Before i left the unit i put the drivers seat back in and moved the dodgy ignition barrel that would cut against your leg when you were seated.

 

[Fernandez]

Looks like a great project. One of my friends races in the national off road championship. This year they have a custom built racer with a BMW 500bhp V12 monster of a motor. They are immense fun to go out in.

 

[Ian_R]

Another little update,

Managed to to change the rear shoes & the rear centre brake hose only to discover that one of the rear wheel cylinders was shot, call to Dingbro & £23 later a new one on!!

Also managed to finish of the wiring and get the new switch panel in place and plugged in, as you will notice from the 2 pics below, went from 6 Switches down to 4

 

[Ian_R]

Another little update,

The fab work has started, well the ripping out of the rubbish that is there has started, and also the creation of the new fuel tank, yet to get pics of that but will next time i'm down - it's going to be an all day session on sat through the day & night

Before



After

 

[Arran]

Great little project. Lots of work by the looks of things.

 

[Ian_R]

So attacked the Truck today, all the gearbox/transfer box filled with oil and finally a new fuel tank on instead of a temp fix, and we took it a run around the yard - it drives and works, well no brakes yet as we still have the front axel to take off so no point just now!!

Todays work started of with cutting the terrible bumper all off and starting on the fuel tank - the tank was finished and all looking good and works properly!! Then it was a case of making 2 new chassis bits up for the back where the rotten parts where and also getting the new bumper all lined up and made, ill let all the pics do the talking, i'm just in (02.35) and been on the go at the unit since 10am, soo i may have rambled a bit.

Just to note it may not like alot has been done in that time frame but its all the fabricating that needs done and grinding etc etc that takes up the time! also the welder /fabricator is my good mate and not me lol!!

 

[Ian_R]

Some more progress today, got the front axle off to sort the twisting that happens, as the leaf springs have been put on top of the axle to give more clearance, so you need to add box section on the axle to stop the axle twisting. Still needs a little bit finished off before it gets put back on.