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posted on April 17th, 2015 at 08:26 AM



Interior all stripped :fakesniff:

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posted on April 17th, 2015 at 08:32 AM



Whats the go????
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posted on April 17th, 2015 at 08:33 AM



need any bits
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posted on April 17th, 2015 at 08:36 AM



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posted on April 17th, 2015 at 08:39 AM



Have taken a massive turn in this project, and have decided it will be a body-off-pan RATSTORATION.. :cool:

Spent hours on this over the last days trying to get all the bolts out, and here we are :tu:!!

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posted on April 17th, 2015 at 08:40 AM



Now that this has been done, we can get to everything better to work on it, and the body is flying high so we can weld in the new heater channels easier :)
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posted on April 18th, 2015 at 01:44 PM



Wish I had garage beams strong enough to do that mate!.
Overall top effort!
Can't wait to see the final results!




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posted on April 18th, 2015 at 02:59 PM



That's great Denver, worthwhile in the end but a lot of work.

Keep up the good work Mate !
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posted on April 18th, 2015 at 03:06 PM



That's awesome; one of the best 1 person body lifts!

Makes me want to work on mine




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posted on April 18th, 2015 at 07:11 PM



Thanks guys...

From removing the body, i need to replace all the floorpan bolts, and the body to chassis seal..

Oh, and put all the horrible sticky gunk back on :lol:
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posted on April 18th, 2015 at 07:13 PM



Small update...

Got the chassis out today, and got the water blaster fired up :)

Before and after picture :post:

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posted on April 18th, 2015 at 07:18 PM



As beetlenut said on page one ~ i have now fixed the fuel filter... It runs under the car near the gearbox away from the dizzy...

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posted on April 18th, 2015 at 07:19 PM



More pics...:)

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posted on April 18th, 2015 at 07:25 PM



Body off pan is the way to go!!!!

Mad work for a young guy ;)!

I had to pressure-blast my 76 bug after hurtlin through the mud out the back - but dont think it turned out that clean :lol:

Cheers and keep up the good work..
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posted on April 18th, 2015 at 08:02 PM



Thanks mate. Yeah... loved those pics :)
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posted on April 25th, 2015 at 12:44 PM



Small update..

Got the rear shockies on...

Got the new floor pan out, and sat it there to see how it looked :)

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posted on April 25th, 2015 at 02:24 PM



secret hideout ...I wanna see a pic here M8



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posted on April 25th, 2015 at 03:05 PM



Watcha mean :?:
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posted on April 26th, 2015 at 07:53 AM



Also got another gauge holder in.. ;)

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Oh and some bits arrived for me.. :)

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posted on April 27th, 2015 at 07:33 PM



Bit more...

Got the front drivers guard... found more rust :borg::borg:

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posted on April 27th, 2015 at 07:37 PM



And today.....

2 boxes arrived in the mail for me :yes:

Yay! Mirrors!!.

I have originally planned to do the hinge pins, and get the mirrors to attach onto the hinge pins, but sold those, and then decided to go for these...

They are similar to the Porsche 356 style mirrors i think :)

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posted on April 29th, 2015 at 06:23 PM



Floor panel all painted :)
No its not perfect... but good enough for me :crazy:

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posted on May 3rd, 2015 at 03:04 PM



Now the fun starts!

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posted on May 3rd, 2015 at 09:36 PM



Doing well dude :)

Just a wee note about the placement of the fuel pump gaskets. The one that has the large hole in it actually sits under the plastic spacer and then the one with 3 small holes on top of the spacer. However, getting the spacer/pedestal out is tricky cos it has a long nose that goes down into the engine and the nose engages with a boss inside the crankcase. It's this nose that gets rather stuck in the boss and many times it breaks upon trying to remove and you have to try and extract the rest using a coarse thread screw into the nose's remains. So upto you if you want to go to the trouble. So long as the lower gasket ain't leaking then maybe leave it be :)




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posted on May 5th, 2015 at 11:09 AM



I had a look on the Glasurit website for you about the L87 paint formula.

There is no green tint used. They use a sepia brown, light blue and a touch of black with the base colour and pearling tint.

Every paint manufacturer will have different pigments that make up their tints that go into the overall paint mix formula and so whatever Supercheap use may have green in the formula but you are also having a relatively inexperienced person mixing the paint for you compared to a paint supplier who's been doing this for years. One gram over the stated formula amount in a 400gm aerosol can easily change the overall colour of the mix.

Try Prestige Paints over in Archerfield. They're the nearest Glasurit stockist to you.




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posted on May 5th, 2015 at 03:10 PM
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Just a thought with your ratchet body lift.
What are your plans to lower it?
When you release those ones, it will drop instantly to the ground.
You are probably aware of this, I'm just making sure.
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Doing well dude :)

Just a wee note about the placement of the fuel pump gaskets. The one that has the large hole in it actually sits under the plastic spacer and then the one with 3 small holes on top of the spacer. However, getting the spacer/pedestal out is tricky cos it has a long nose that goes down into the engine and the nose engages with a boss inside the crankcase. It's this nose that gets rather stuck in the boss and many times it breaks upon trying to remove and you have to try and extract the rest using a coarse thread screw into the nose's remains. So upto you if you want to go to the trouble. So long as the lower gasket ain't leaking then maybe leave it be :)


Thanks. Yes, i knew that, but the bottom one was fine, and an extra one cant hurt can't it? ;)
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I had a look on the Glasurit website for you about the L87 paint formula.

There is no green tint used. They use a sepia brown, light blue and a touch of black with the base colour and pearling tint.

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Try Prestige Paints over in Archerfield. They're the nearest Glasurit stockist to you.


Wow! Thanks very much for that info.. Will definitely give them a call! Very helpful information!
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Just a thought with your ratchet body lift.
What are your plans to lower it?
When you release those ones, it will drop instantly to the ground.
You are probably aware of this, I'm just making sure.
Great work and progress, by the way.


Yeah... I was kinda stuck on that one :). Nah, when we were lifting it up, the ratchet strap got full a couple of times, so me and my brother held the weight of the car, while my dad un-did the ratchet strap and emptied it, then did it back up again.. :). I suppose we'll have to do the same when lowering :blush:
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