Happen to have some free time with the latest pandemic situation, so here's some catchup.
Purchased this in 2017 - probably should have done something different - but...
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We started to strip it down immediately, i was in no doubt that the rust bug was everywhere. I hadn't bargained for how bad the floors were though
Windscreen was a goner
Took me a while to figure out the diamond-plate - it covered the hinge for the Postal door of course.
The mismatched hinges caused trouble later on as well.
Floor was not pretty, probably should have stopped there and bought a new tub,but that wasn't on the cards.
It wasn't bad where the rust preservative had been applied and wasn't cracked, problem is they totally missed areas - did the frame well though
One ulterior motive for this madness was to get one of these
Got some strengthening added so we can lift the tub off
This is the driver (RHD) strengthening plate over the forward tub mount - cracked in multiple places, this is what happens when the rubber mounts fail.
3 weeks in at this point.
Purchased this in 2017 - probably should have done something different - but...
/
We started to strip it down immediately, i was in no doubt that the rust bug was everywhere. I hadn't bargained for how bad the floors were though
Windscreen was a goner
Took me a while to figure out the diamond-plate - it covered the hinge for the Postal door of course.
The mismatched hinges caused trouble later on as well.
Floor was not pretty, probably should have stopped there and bought a new tub,but that wasn't on the cards.
It wasn't bad where the rust preservative had been applied and wasn't cracked, problem is they totally missed areas - did the frame well though
One ulterior motive for this madness was to get one of these
Got some strengthening added so we can lift the tub off
This is the driver (RHD) strengthening plate over the forward tub mount - cracked in multiple places, this is what happens when the rubber mounts fail.
3 weeks in at this point.