auf_wiedersehen_pet's build thread.

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

Awesome truck mate, really nice build. Can I ask where you got the reversing lamp and any pictures of the install into the spare wheel carrier?

If you can wait a couple of installments, I'll give you the full details.

 

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

October 2009

 

[Co-Pang-Yang]

ha ha good man!

 

[Mr Noisy]

If you can wait a couple of installments, I'll give you the full details.

Yeah for god's sake DON'T MESS UP THE CHRONOLOGY!!

 

[Mr Noisy]

Do we get to see some pictures like this...

...at the end??

(Troll, muhahahahahahaa)

 

[major truma 2]

i wont them rims ,

 

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

April 2010

Designed and built by me.

This is the main benefit. It gives me clear visibility behind. I run it as an "ignition switched" rear mirror.

This is how I did it. Please ignore the four roof light brackets - they are nowt to do with this.

Have you spotted the two "fake" stainless wheel nuts?

 

[Co-Pang-Yang]

Very impressive work mate.

 

[Mark L]

Outstanding.

raise:

 

[Mr Noisy]

Rob, you are TOO keen

Lovely job done, that is fabulous craftsmanship.

Couple of things, how did you attach the faux wheel nuts? Far far far too form over function for me but just curious, and what is the other adaptor thingy that you have fitted in some of the pics with the box section sticking out? Bike rack??

Cheers !

 

[Co-Pang-Yang]

And where the hell can I get those wheels????

 

[disco147]

have to give it to you, especially having seen it in the flesh - that rear wheel with the light/camera is a real tidy well finished job!

Good work rob!

 

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

Rob, you are TOO keen

Lovely job done, that is fabulous craftsmanship.

Couple of things, how did you attach the faux wheel nuts? Far far far too form over function for me but just curious, and what is the other adaptor thingy that you have fitted in some of the pics with the box section sticking out? Bike rack??

Cheers !

High praise indeed.

I used a thin washer, cut the head off a wheel stud and welded them together then and painted them. Put the studs in place and tighten the three proper studs, that compresses the washers and allows a nip from a socket to hold the fake ones on. Yep, the retainer for a bike rack. I had to make my own as the original one is designed for 235 tyres and they were 265s in the picture. Since then, I've swapped to 315s so I need to make another.

 

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

And where the hell can I get those wheels????

JC2074 - PREDATOR 8 X 17 ALLOY WHEEL BLACK FINISH INCLUDES CENTRE CAPS AND NUTS + 20 OFFSET - Defender 90/110 Parts & Discovery 1 Parts & Range Rover Classic Parts

I bought mine as...

Four silver - Old Sodbury Sort Out
One black - Old Sodbury Sort Out
One black - Newbury 4x4 Spares Day
One black - Craddocks on ebay

......... over a period of about three years. Why seven? Got matching ones on the Sankey too.

A quick visit to K&N Finishers in Portchester and they were blasted and coated black.

 

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

have to give it to you, especially having seen it in the flesh - that rear wheel with the light/camera is a real tidy well finished job!

Good work rob!

Thank you. I am a tad "obsessive".

 

[Co-Pang-Yang]

Bloody lovely they are mate.

 

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

May 2010

Stainless straight through centre pipe - didn't last long as it was just far too noisey!!

BTW, this photo was taken in the garage, not the kitchen.

 

[Mr Noisy]

BTW, this photo was taken in the garage, not the kitchen.

Garage is tidy. Tidier than most kitchens in fact. No piles of spares, no tools lying around, no half eaten takeaway food betwixt the work, no vice present and no beverages are on display.

Therefore:

 

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

Garage is tidy. Tidier than most kitchens in fact. No piles of spares, no tools lying around, no half eaten takeaway food betwixt the work, no vice present and no beverages are on display.

Therefore:

:scratching_chin::scratching_chin:

I do have a vice - it's on the opposite side of the garage to the and amp, which is adjacent to the DVD, TV & ipod, all running through 5.1 surround sound.

:fencing:

 

[Mr Noisy]

Pics!