82 UK Spec Laredo Scrambler Build No 2

[Chamba]

Don, you're a bloody legend. I love your schematics.

 

[Dave The Sparky]

Wow thanks for the research @FLCJ8

 

[Dave The Sparky]

Undersealing is abandoned until i get a heater or it warms up, so i flipped it over and painted the inside instead.
Back to work tomorrow after the Xmas holiday, so paints going to get lots of time to harden i reckon...

 

[mhinchliffe]

What kind of work do you do?

 

[Chamba]

What kind of work do you do?

He's a sparky: an electrician in the US. And a damned good one I'm thinking from his work here.

 

[Belizeit]

I was thinking the guy who controls the electric supply.

 

[mhinchliffe]

k. Got it. Thx

 

[Dave The Sparky]

What kind of work do you do?

Self employed Electrical engineer/Control Engineer, i design, build and install the electrical components usually for a machine of some sort.
The bread and butter work is normally working on large pieces of recycling equipment like hammer mills, large shredders and all the related conveyors and separators.
I do get involved on all sorts of stuff though, moulding machines seem to be the latest thing i am getting dragged in to fault find and sort out.
I quite enjoy the variety of what i do, just hogs up Jeep time thats the only problem but it also pays for Jeep time so i cant win!

 

[Dave The Sparky]

Little job of assembling the Hand brake/Parking brake/Emergency brake, whatever you want to call it is back together and bolted back on to one of the seat bases.
Just needs the greasy finger prints removing and the plastic handle part shining up a bit and its ready to install.

 

[Dave The Sparky]

Roll bar getting an undignified trip out for sandblasting.

 

[Chamba]

Loving the 'Lux Dave. Suprised it's petrol though. 4cyl w/ 6 speed manual? Great ute.

My last Hilux was a 2005 3 litre turbo diesel / 5 speed. Loved it. My mate Goran has the '16 D4-D/6 speed with over 300,000 kms now and nary an issue.

 

[Dave The Sparky]

Loving the 'Lux Dave. Suprised it's petrol though. 4cyl w/ 6 speed manual? Great ute.

My last Hilux was a 2005 3 litre turbo diesel / 5 speed. Loved it. My mate Goran has the '16 D4-D/6 speed with over 300,000 kms now and nary an issue.

Where did you get the idea its petrol from??.

2.4 diesel with a 6 speed auto is my little ute..

 

[Chamba]

Very nice! In Australia the diesels all have diesel emblems under the Hilux on the door. The petty is just plain.

Must not be that way in the UK.

 

[Dave The Sparky]

Thats probably as they only sell diesel trucks in the UK, there is no petrol option, no one can afford to run one with our gas prices

 

[Belizeit]

Thats probably as they only sell diesel trucks in the UK, there is no petrol option, no one can afford to run one with our gas prices

Here diesel fuel is always a pretty good amount more than gas.

 

[Dave The Sparky]

Rare day off so collected my roll bar.
It had been shot blasted and also they painted it in some lovely Red Oxide paint to stop it going a very similar colour if it had no paint on it

 

[Dave The Sparky]

Also broke out the underseal, stuck the cans in a bucket of hot water before spraying and it seems to have gone on okay, just going to take a while to go off properly i reckon with the cold temperature.
Incredibly messy stuff it seems to get everywhere!.

Back to work tomorrow so it will get plenty of chance to do whatever it needs to do!...

 

[Dave The Sparky]

Tub and chassis are back together ,normally lift the tub with the rollbar but thats sat there waiting for paint so came up with this, worked a treat.

 

[Dave The Sparky]

Stuck some parts back on, Parking brake/Emergency brake/Handbrake whatever you call it i find far easier to connect the cable to the handle end first and thread the cable through the hole and then tension it down at the equaliser.

 

[mhinchliffe]

Diggin' it Dave! You're close to the finish line, bring it home!