Right made a coffee and a stack of dunkies at the ready!
I skipped these pictures on the last update, wheels got swapped before anymore panels came off.
Real shame the battered old yellow has to go, looks mean with the black wheels on! Or did when things were still attached anyway.
Offered up Charlies MX5 seats just to have a ganders... You know.. as you do.
Anyway, fitted in there nicely and felt good. He says he's using them but I will keep working on that until he gives them up to my cause. I didn't want the middle seat in this one anyway so the change of seat isn't a concern. Its also not an essential so if it ends up staying with the landy seats then so be it till later down the line. More of a roadside job that anyway so not overly bothered.
Here he is with the wing off. Not looking forward to doing the other side at all!
Some of the rust I need to deal with on the rear tub.
Parts are just being stacked up in the office area - amazing how many bits you get and how quickly you loose lots and lots of space!
Winch has been pulled apart, no real pictures to be honest. However I got these.
And Charlie came to the rescue to weld onto the bolts holding the motor, every single damn one of them put up a fight and was about an hour of faffing around to remove the 4.
Turns out that's trashed, couldn't get the winch to run so taking a look inside told us why very quickly! I've sent an e-mail about getting a new motor for it, however being an older model I have no paperwork for reference and its a reet pain in the arse. These things are like 1500 quid for a new one and I figure this one repaired will be better then a 300 quid no brand one. Still need to buy the rope etc for it but until this kicks into life I'm not going to waste any money with that.
Charlie went and got 2 pipe benders, the red press one just seems to be a complete fail and waste of money.
This yellow one he is borrowing however is doing the job lovely for the smaller stuff.
Having never done any of this stuff before my aim is to have a play with it and make myself some side steps/rock sliders whatever you'd like to call them (From thicker tube than this). Again as mentioned before I'd do the bending and making of mounts etc and get that tacked together and set it on Alex's bench to have it welded properly.
Just a skills test to get myself up to scratch and add something else to my very lacking bag of tricks. A roof bar among other things would also be on my to do list.
Things like this give me a bit of head scratching time at home and will proceed to happen when I'm in between jobs and I have a hold up. Waiting for parts etc as an example but that's not looking likely any time soon. Vince is also well up for having a go fabricating some stuff on that note so we may yet have a mini project from him in form of a fun toy for his grandson. I'll keep nagging so he makes a start on it anyway.