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Post by titch on Oct 25, 2021 11:50:42 GMT
Quite a big difference too! Wow! I do like that colour too!!!
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Post by biggles1 on Oct 28, 2021 18:16:18 GMT
I have flared arches on my ford based RV, they are part of the body rather than bolted on Have you added a body lift, to this one? It sits very nicely.
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Post by johmpen on Oct 28, 2021 22:36:11 GMT
Body is as standard, I think it’s had bigger springs, and the tyres are massive. That helps lift the height up. Wheels are 15” running on 32x11.50 r15 tyres
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Post by nickyjuk on Oct 31, 2021 22:16:48 GMT
I agree with Titch, the colour looks great. It really looks like an authentic jeep too with the that big winch on the front! It looks like it stands quite high, how is it getting in and out? I ask, as I think I'm going to have to craft some side steps for my project!
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Post by nickyjuk on Oct 31, 2021 22:33:45 GMT
I've been busy spending more of my project time stitching things together with the welder. I've finally finished welding the flatbed frame together, including a panel spliced in where it once said 'Transit' across the back - it definitely had to go! I've ground the welds back where they'll be seen. I found that I also had some good success with a 120 grit flapper disk on the angle grinder, polishing the welds back to a smooth finish. I'm hoping that the end result will just about make these welds invisible. I have to make some panels to deck the frame, probably using some aluminium chequer plate and the sides to trim down too. I've also finally drilled the holes in the rear bumper for the light fittings, and spent a few hours with a file, enlarging and smoothing the large holes for the fittings to sit in. It is now complete. The complicated mount that connects the bumper and the rear end of the trayback to the chassis is also now complete. I've spent a good few hours working on it, so I'm really pleased it's done and I can now work on completing the frame the body mounts to and the rollbar frame.
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Post by nickyjuk on Oct 31, 2021 22:37:48 GMT
No, it's not a new aerial for Sputnik VI, it's the rear trayback to chassis mount...
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Post by titch on Nov 3, 2021 9:20:00 GMT
I wish I had the inclination, AND skills, to weld!! You're doing a fine job here!
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Post by johmpen on Nov 5, 2021 23:16:25 GMT
I agree with Titch, the colour looks great. It really looks like an authentic jeep too with the that big winch on the front! It looks like it stands quite high, how is it getting in and out? I ask as I think I'm going to have to craft some side steps for my project! It’s pretty high and needs a good step up, I have to grab the roll cage to help. Side steps is a project planned for the winter
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Post by nickyjuk on Nov 28, 2021 22:52:59 GMT
Thanks for the comments on the welding Titch! A lot of my welding in the past has been on various rusty things, so welding the various new steel frames together for the Scrambler has been a relative joy! I've been doing the odd bit here and there, but haven't really had any progress photos to post as some of the details have taken sometime to do, plus a lack of light in the evenings. I've been trying to complete some of the half finished bits 'n' pieces, which included the flat bed body. I seem to have three or more pieces on the go at the same time. Currently they are the flat bed, the rollframe (although I hesitate to call it a rollframe as it is more for show and a windscreen brace as although better than nothing, I don't think it would be that great if it did roll over), the body mount frame, and I also started to make some side steps. I seem to have ended up with all these unfinished bits, as the design of one effects the other, that effects the other, in a bit of a domino effect.. I guess if it was designed via CAD I'd have finished more parts, but propping a length of tube on some crates under the door aperture to see if it looks to be the right length for a side step is more my style. Hopefully it'll mean that one weekend soon I'll have a day when lots of pieces get completed at the same time. Now, the flatbed is pretty much there, the headboard for it has been trimmed to the right width after measuring and remeasuring it a dozen times to make sure that I wasn't making any irreversable mistakes. I've also trimmed the sides down to the new shortened length and cut some chequerplate aluminium to the right size to make the deck. The last thing to do is the tailboard, but at this point my trusty angle grinder decided that my work with a flapper disk was too much for it and the spindle bearings failed. As trying to accurately slice the rear panel to size with a wobbly cutting disk didn't seem to be a good idea, it has stopped play until its replacement turns up.
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Post by nickyjuk on Nov 28, 2021 23:03:52 GMT
The dropside body coming together. The load area is a capacious 6' square.
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Post by titch on Nov 30, 2021 20:58:45 GMT
I'm lovin' it when plans are coming together!!!
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Post by nickyjuk on Dec 19, 2021 22:20:09 GMT
Well the welder has been flailed around again this weekend! I've welded some tags on the roll frame for the roof clips and an internal light - very posh it is too! Some previous weekend's flailing had been to create some side steps. Very much unfinished, but at least I can get in and out of it now!
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Post by nickyjuk on Dec 19, 2021 22:21:50 GMT
Step on up!
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Post by pedro on Dec 19, 2021 22:29:55 GMT
Hi Nick,
I'm also looking forward to seeing how your roof clips work out as I have a similar hardtop to what yours originally was. Side step is coming along nicely too. How I wish I took up welding, I can usually turn my hand to most things so bought a welder, but no idea how to use it lol.
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Post by nickyjuk on Dec 24, 2021 11:23:42 GMT
I was going to say that I think the secret to good welding is a having a good angle grinder at hand to sort out the mistakes, but I concede it's probably practice. It can be very frustrating when it goes a bit wrong and starts to resemble pigeon droppings. I wouldn't want to tell people how to weld, but new, clean and shiny steel, a decent welding mask and good light make it so much easier. A practice on a separate piece of steel to set the wire speed and amps to something that doesn't melt the piece you're trying to blob together or throw to much spatter around is also a good idea... and if its 2mm or thicker it is more forgiving if the amps are a little high.. that's the reason why most of my parts looks like they might make suitable ancillaries for a something Agricultural! Anyone who can weld thin rusty car panels, can weld anything! Thankfully Eagles RVs and SSs are made of fibreglass!!
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Post by Peter on Dec 24, 2021 14:37:45 GMT
I was going to say that I think the secret to good welding is a having a good angle grinder at hand to sort out the mistakes, but I concede it's probably practice. It can be very frustrating when it goes a bit wrong and starts to resemble pigeon droppings. I wouldn't want to tell people how to weld, but new, clean and shiny steel, a decent welding mask and good light make it so much easier. A practice on a separate piece of steel to set the wire speed and amps to something that doesn't melt the piece you're trying to blob together or throw to much spatter around is also a good idea... and if its 2mm or thicker it is more forgiving if the amps are a little high.. that's the reason why most of my parts looks like they might make suitable ancillaries for a something Agricultural! Anyone who can weld thin rusty car panels, can weld anything! Thankfully Eagles RVs and SSs are made of fibreglass!! Well said that man. I have been welding buggys and fences at the stables for the past 10 years and they are all made from crap steel, if it can be called that. The number of times I have had to chase a hole with weld and then grind it down. Nice new 2mm+ steel is easy.
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Post by nickyjuk on May 14, 2023 20:25:51 GMT
Well, I haven't updated anything on my build project thread for some time as things slowed down a bit due to some of those unforseen circumstances that life sometimes throw at us. I also spent an awful lot of time fabricating brackets and it was starting to bore me - it took me well over a month to remake the front bumper with a few minutes spent here and there. I didn't think that all the tweaking of stuff was that entertaining, but on reflection it might have been nice to share this stage of the Marathon. I have however reached a bit of a landmark, as a few couple of weeks back I sent everything I'd chopped up, then welded back together off to the media blasting and powdercoating man! My excitement when it all came back was like a child with a new toy. It is a bit like an airfix kit! I intended to put it together straightaway. The slight distortion the oven had made to some of the frame led to some extremely careful prying of bits of metal and the gentle whacking of bolts with a hammer. This didn't dampened my enthusiasm, but an afternoon spent trying to get the waxoyl gun (last used twenty years ago, but miraculously found within two minutes), did however lead to some frustration! This was backed up by a couple of trips to a Halfords that was closed, when it should have been open and then another trip to find they don't sell waxoyl anymore (since March), but a different brand and neither do they sell the squirty gun with the probe that I needed to coat the inside of all my shiny pieces of steel. I now have a delay until a new squirty gun turns up in the post someone this week. I thought I'd share a picture showing where all of those hours of labour were invested..
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Post by nickyjuk on May 14, 2023 20:29:11 GMT
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Post by Charlie Francis on May 15, 2023 19:32:01 GMT
wow impressive
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Post by terryrob on May 20, 2023 14:53:14 GMT
Bloody hell Nick you've got a bit going on there pal. Looking good, you're doing a cracking job.
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Post by nickyjuk on May 22, 2023 20:30:27 GMT
Thanks! I've started bolting some of the larger pieces back onto the Discovery Chassis with plenty of waxoyl in the tubes (now the new squirty gun has turned up). I now have the fuel tank caged in with its new strap, then the flatbed mounting frames bolted in place and the flatbed ontop. I've bolted the new shiny body mount frame to the chassis, and the side steps to it. Unfortunately I still haven't got the body to quite where I wanted, so it isn't ready to go back on yet, and I was hoping to clean up the engine too as it is currently quite an oily mess.
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Post by Graham Wood on May 23, 2023 0:51:06 GMT
Discovery Chassis with plenty of waxoyl in the tubes (now the new squirty gun has turned up). Yep, doing a grand job.
Can you tell us / give me a link for the "New squirty gun", as I too need one.
Thanks
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Post by nickyjuk on May 23, 2023 20:22:32 GMT
Hi Graham. I purchased a Sealey waxoyl gun, which works fine, but isn't perfect.. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000RO3V14/ref=pe_27063361_487055811_TE_dp_1I like that it squirts waxoyl around with very little effort. I didn't like that it is designed to screw onto the 1 litre shultz cans, and wouldn't screw onto the 5 litre can I have, for which the pickup pipe is too short to reach the bottom. I also didn't really like that the tube that attaches to the nozzle is a chubby 10mm diameter, and not particularly long, so I won't be able to use it on pieces where the holes in the chassis aren't that big (when I get to them), or to reach a long way through a tube (ie my bumpers). So, in conclusion it works, but not sure I'd recommend one.
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Post by nickyjuk on Jul 13, 2023 8:58:20 GMT
I've been making more progress at putting things back together. The body is now back on. The brake calipers rebuilt with new pistons and seals, and new brake lines made up and installed. I've got the modified pedal box in place and lots of other bolts slotted in various holes. The main blocker, before I can put the steering column in, the dashboard or start figuring out the loom modifications and routing has been the windscreen wipers. I've opted to install a late Land Rover Defender system, as (fingers crossed) it should connect with the loom quite easily. There has been a lot of head scratching and trial and error in this, as there isn't a lot of space to fit it in without it being in the way of something else, and to make it just that little bit more awkward I decided it would be a great idea to convert it into a three wiper system so the whole window gets wiped! I'll try to post a couple of pics if I can work out how to host them externally.
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Post by nickyjuk on Aug 9, 2023 10:59:00 GMT
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Post by titch on Aug 10, 2023 7:31:30 GMT
This is a great read.. I'm enjoying and admiring it all!!
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Post by nickyjuk on Aug 24, 2023 21:44:06 GMT
Thanks Titch! Unfortunately harvest time on our fruit farm is here again without this Eagle/Landrover thing I've been building to help cart everything around. It also means that everything is pretty much on hold for a few months as I haven't got time to work on it. I'd just started trying to work out the magic string to connect everything up.. everyone says its the most basic Discovsry loom, as there were no airbags or ABS There is still a lot of it though, and I'm not sure I need those rear door speakers, electric tailgate locks or electric windows!
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Post by nickyjuk on Aug 24, 2023 22:01:07 GMT
I think I spent the equivalent of three entire days working out, then labelling up the magic string. I listened to a lot of Wimbledon! I still haven't done it all either, but as the Discovery came without a key and with some interesting additional wiring to get it to run I have just about worked out how to remove the factory immobiliser and replace it with a new alarm immobilizer system.
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Post by nickyjuk on Nov 16, 2023 21:11:52 GMT
Well, I've eventually found I've got a bit more time to do some work on the beast. I've had no time to work on it for the last three months as picking the crops on our farm became an all consuming priority. I had bundled the loom all back up again and packed it into the cab. I'd spent hours on it, so figuring out more of the loom seemed to be a good place to restart from.. unfortunately laying it all out again and trying to remember what I'd done and had yet to do suddenly felt a bit daunting, so I've fitted the exhaust instead! A top discovery was that in mail ordering a full length exhaust, it came in a lovely long cardboard box and once flattened, it was ideal for lying on under the vehicle when fitting the said exhaust!
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Post by titch on Nov 17, 2023 7:27:18 GMT
And I thought I had 'worries' come my time to wire up & in... Blimey! Again, work commitments have delayed me too.. But yes, yours is coming on and where there isn't a need to rush it, don't.. just hope the laptop comes in handy. Top Man! Titch
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