aaronmorris
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Hello again chaps and chapesses, and thanks for tuning into another one of my projects again
I have been mulling this one over for a while now, and with the other 90 pretty much done it is time to make a start on it.
So what is the plan? Well I'm not really sure yet, one idea I was thinking about was a marine blue soft top, with 300tdi auto.
A big dilemma I had was weather to keep it original with the 200tdi or go 300tdi.
If it was going to be 200tdi then it would have to be a genuine Defender version, so rocking horse poo and expensive.
I had to make a decision so I could order a new galvanised chassis. In the end I decided to order a 300tdi type chassis as I thought it would be easier to source.
So I plan to buy a donor discovery for the engine/gearbox and will also make use of the rear axle.
Anyhow, it turns out not even a week after ordering my chassis someone on here pm'd me asking if I still wanted a defender 200tdi engine, doh! Just my bloody luck.
Anyway, the chassis is ordered in 300tdi variant and their is no going back now, but their is a 10-12 week waiting list
So plenty of time to get the axles sorted, find a donor and maybe even time to give the engine a bit of a spruce up.
Two weeks or so ago I started the strip down.
The vehicle is in a pretty sorry state if I'm honest, more just previous owners bodgy shit'e but is going to require a lot of time and effort to make it reasonable again.
But the more I looked the more I found, but hey, nothing that can't be sorted.
Especially the body work, nearly every panel is dented and battered, and I've no idea what they painted it with, but it is terrible, red oxide or some such like I guess, not looking forward to stripping all that off either
The Saturday after I stripped the rest of the chassis of everything I may need.
The chassis was then cut up to make it more manageable to get rid of, although it is still just sat their, oops
More updates when I get a mo..
This will likely be a slow moving project at any rate, I have spent far too much of late and need to let funds re-coupe a little (save up for the new chassis) for a start.
And their is no rush what so ever for this vehicle, I just want to get a rolling chassis, engine and gearbox in and I can take it from their as to what I want to build, but only time will only tell, and as always, it is nice to be starting a new build
I have been mulling this one over for a while now, and with the other 90 pretty much done it is time to make a start on it.
So what is the plan? Well I'm not really sure yet, one idea I was thinking about was a marine blue soft top, with 300tdi auto.
A big dilemma I had was weather to keep it original with the 200tdi or go 300tdi.
If it was going to be 200tdi then it would have to be a genuine Defender version, so rocking horse poo and expensive.
I had to make a decision so I could order a new galvanised chassis. In the end I decided to order a 300tdi type chassis as I thought it would be easier to source.
So I plan to buy a donor discovery for the engine/gearbox and will also make use of the rear axle.
Anyhow, it turns out not even a week after ordering my chassis someone on here pm'd me asking if I still wanted a defender 200tdi engine, doh! Just my bloody luck.
Anyway, the chassis is ordered in 300tdi variant and their is no going back now, but their is a 10-12 week waiting list
So plenty of time to get the axles sorted, find a donor and maybe even time to give the engine a bit of a spruce up.
Two weeks or so ago I started the strip down.
The vehicle is in a pretty sorry state if I'm honest, more just previous owners bodgy shit'e but is going to require a lot of time and effort to make it reasonable again.
But the more I looked the more I found, but hey, nothing that can't be sorted.
Especially the body work, nearly every panel is dented and battered, and I've no idea what they painted it with, but it is terrible, red oxide or some such like I guess, not looking forward to stripping all that off either
The Saturday after I stripped the rest of the chassis of everything I may need.
The chassis was then cut up to make it more manageable to get rid of, although it is still just sat their, oops
More updates when I get a mo..
This will likely be a slow moving project at any rate, I have spent far too much of late and need to let funds re-coupe a little (save up for the new chassis) for a start.
And their is no rush what so ever for this vehicle, I just want to get a rolling chassis, engine and gearbox in and I can take it from their as to what I want to build, but only time will only tell, and as always, it is nice to be starting a new build