Lots of parcels turned up today curtesy of Gwyn Lewis who sorted me out with a full suspension package, I can't wait to fit it.

I think I need to get on eBay and see what I can find.

Iv been and got replacement for every nut and bot on the axles and got new disks, pads, calipers, swivels and everything else I need to make them like new, so hopefully I'll get around to fitting them this week, I just need to give them another coat of paint first. Tools I need to buy a brake...

Cheers, I'll pop that on the eBay watch list for when the time comes

if you know somebody with a halfords trade card you can get the 200 piece set for about £120 and its got pretty much everything you need in it.

Hmmm I might have to try this, what did you use to stick it down?

Feel free to come clean and paint my engine like yours :)

They said 6 to 8 weeks, so hopefully I'll have it by the end of March :) which is good timing for me as I'm going away soon and I won't be back until around then.

I have ordered my chassis from richards tonight and gwyn lewis is sorting me out a a full suspension kit and i have also enquired about getting myself a galv bulkhead too. I can't wait to start putting it all together.

anybody got any recommendations for a 2" lift kit?

i spent this afternoon applying red oxide primer to the axles and the back plates, then once it was dry i applied the first coat of rustoleum combicolor, hopefully i be able to slap another coat on tomorrow night. Its nice to be getting somewhere with the build now, and the axles are looking...

i have some thinking to do about the twin tanks, I might just get the brackets added so i have the option to have two tanks in the future

I would only be able to go on a weekend and apparently they don't open on a weekend :( Iv just put the details of it into a site like this, hopefully I'll get some good quotes. I haven't actually ordered it yet, I was meant to do it today but I got distracted playing with my axles but the...

I have just picked the axles up from the shot blasters, time to crack on with the primer now :) What would be the best way to get a chassis delivered from Richards chassis to me in reading, it's a 200mile trip and they want £170, im sure I could get it cheaper than that somewhere

My vote goes for the 300, I had a 300tdi CSW and I loved it, then I swaped it for a td5 pick up, which was also good but I did give it a bit of abuse off road and I learnt the hard way that electronics don't like water. After the td5 I bought another 300tdi CSW and I plan on keeping it forever...

I found out that one of my dads friends owns a bodyshop, so i asked him if I can go spend a few days with him in the summer when I'm off work and he's going to give me a bit of a crash course in spraying. So hopefully I'll learn how to do it properly and get a better finish when the time comes...

and thats pretty much everything that i have done over the last few weeks so now were back into real time. I have now started to strip the engine down, iv never actually striped one down this far before so its all new to me, one side completely bare and the other is on its way. i haven't taken...

i bought a battery recall pack for my snap on impact gun, so i removed the old and soldiered in some new ones and its miles better now, lots more power and hopefully the charge will last more than a few hours. Once that was done, with the help of a few friends we loading all the scrap from the...

almost back into real time now :-D so, as the axles are at the shot blasters and i didn't know what to do in the meantime, so i decided to put the engine on the engine stand, iv never use an engine stand before but i was really please once it was attached, its going to make working on the...

i spent about 3 hours with the grinder on one axle and it started to come up nicely as you can see in the last picture but i had eaten through 2 wire wheels and progress was really slow and i couldn't get into all the corners properly and under brackets etc so i made a few calls and i got quoted...