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| posted on October 2nd, 2013 at 08:18 PM |
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First coat of paint on lift kit. Going to finish inside and outside using Stone chip paint.
Photo 2
But can anyone tell me whether I should worry about strength for off road with this cracked. Also wondering how I could weld it if necessary.
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| posted on October 2nd, 2013 at 08:22 PM |
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Brilliant work mate! looks like it fits really well. Glad to see some more progress! 
It will all be OK in the end, if it's not OK it's not the end!
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| posted on October 2nd, 2013 at 10:33 PM |
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Brilliant work mate! looks like it fits really well. Glad to see some more progress!
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Thanks mate.
Not sure what happened to the photo of the painted kit but oh well too bad!
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| posted on October 4th, 2013 at 07:00 AM |
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Good job, keep going, I really like your Baja
A "car guy" from Sweden, I love Vee Dubs and Porsche...
I'm also an Auto Electrician in my profession.
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| posted on October 4th, 2013 at 07:41 AM |
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First coat of paint on lift kit. Going to finish inside and outside using Stone chip paint.
Photo 2
But can anyone tell me whether I should worry about strength for off road with this cracked. Also wondering how I could weld it if necessary.
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I believe you have to pre heat the metal before you weld it as it is cast, makes it a lot easier to get decent penetration.
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| posted on October 6th, 2013 at 11:25 PM |
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Thanks handy!
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Good job, keep going, I really like your Baja
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| posted on January 15th, 2014 at 09:43 PM |
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Finally got off my rear and did some more work on Al;
Welded pivot boxes in,
Ground down old welds from front bar supports and
Filled some small holes in drivers side floor.
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| posted on January 15th, 2014 at 09:49 PM |
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Also started to wire wheel floorpan. What a awful job that is.
Need advice on methods for cleaning up in tight corners and what I should use to paint the floorpan. Need to know what would be the toughest paint to
use.
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| posted on January 21st, 2014 at 10:57 PM |
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Well finally finished the modifications on the floorpan including welding on adjustors for the front beam. Just got to clean it all up and paint it.
Photos will come later as they didn't load properly and were lost.
By the way wire brushes are bloody painful. Had heaps of wires hitting me but when I finished for the day I noticed and irritation in my stomach.
Finally found a small piece of metal stuck to my stomach. When I pulled it away an inch of wire from the brush came out of my stomach. 
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| posted on January 22nd, 2014 at 08:48 AM |
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Well finally finished the modifications on the floorpan including welding on adjustors for the front beam. Just got to clean it all up and paint it.
Photos will come later as they didn't load properly and were lost.
By the way wire brushes are bloody painful. Had heaps of wires hitting me but when I finished for the day I noticed and irritation in my stomach.
Finally found a small piece of metal stuck to my stomach. When I pulled it away an inch of wire from the brush came out of my stomach.
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Haha been there, I pulled a bit of wire out of my forehead once.. Get some pics up mate! I need more inspiration!
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| posted on January 22nd, 2014 at 05:16 PM |
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More photos
1. floor pan being cleaned with wire wheel
2. kiss from grinder caused me to knock off a little early today
3. adjusters welded on front beam
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| posted on January 22nd, 2014 at 05:22 PM |
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another photo to give an idea of how much the grinder loved me today!
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| posted on January 22nd, 2014 at 08:00 PM |
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Hi mate,
You can weld that section of the torsion housing back together. VW castings weld reasonably well, preheating with the oxy will help too. Generally
bracing the torsion tube back to the pan will help strengthen that area. Have you got a copy of the Jeff Hibbard book? Most of the answers you seek
are in that book.
Watch those wire wells mate, you know they make those in impregnated poly now days. 
have fun
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| posted on January 22nd, 2014 at 09:02 PM |
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Hi mate,
You can weld that section of the torsion housing back together. VW castings weld reasonably well, preheating with the oxy will help too. Generally
bracing the torsion tube back to the pan will help strengthen that area. Have you got a copy of the Jeff Hibbard book? Most of the answers you seek
are in that book.
Watch those wire wells mate, you know they make those in impregnated poly now days.
have fun
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Yeh thanks Nils. I do have a copy of the book just can't find it at the moment.
With the pan upside down I noticed that they had actually been cut by someone. I assume it was by the person who patched in he new battery section of
the floor pan.
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