DonMcDazzle

Someone will be getting a great truck at that price, really cool.

That's so cool man, love that shape. How much did you pay if u don't mind me asking?

Just heard from one of my mates that the wiring has mostly been done. Yay. Only the exhaust to weld up and the turbo to be hooked up. Speaking of which, I added a thread in the for sale/wanted section but may as well ask here. Does anyone have a wastegate actuator off a ct26 that they would want to sell? Can't find one for the life of me.

Got the front of the chassis sorted finally. Just needs turbo hooked up, exhaust sorted and then some wiring done and I'm ready to reassemble. Sprayed the inside of the chassis with this stuff called prolan, meant to be a good rust preventer so hopefully that pays off. Pretty painful process to do. Anyway here is a pic of the weld job on the front rebuilt hangers Sorry for the shakey photo done with my crappy phone

Well I didn't finish by my self imposed deadline of today unfortunately, a few relatively small jobs left to do. I have to weld in some flexi hose into my exhaust and hook up a waste gate actuator and all the other turbo connections. Did a trial fit of the body and luckily everything lines up ok. Here is the rear tray on, with one of my helpers in the shot. I reckon the colour looks good, really happy with it,

Getting close to d day and I don't think I'll finish... Had a few things pop up that I need to buy, so some spanners in the works just when I needed smooth sailing, in the meantime here is the front grille assembled.

That looks sweet P Star, convertible is awesome. I reckon the matte black suits the old square shapes pretty well, covers up all the dings well too. What did you do on the inside of your ute bed area? I don't know whether to just paint it and then install rubber matting or get some spray on liner type stuff.

Yep, commuting down each day from palmy which is a bit annoying but the workshop is kitted out with everything I need.

More stuff painted today. Tomorrow hopefully I can connect the brakes and clutch, install the accelerator pedal and start on the wiring. I think I'm a bit obsessed with the matte black, I've done the badges and grille. Hopefully it looks alright all put together.

Cheers mate, I've been doing 10 hour days in the workshop trying to get it sorted. I will hopefully paint the rest of the panels tomorrow and get the brake pedal in and connected up. Then I have to mount the exhaust manifold and turbo, weld on the exhaust, connect the wiring and bolt everything together.. Going to be a big week I think.

Started the reassembly. Got the bulkhead on the body and fitted the clutch pedal. Bit of a mental milestone when you start putting things back together and it starts looking like a truck again (sort of). Got one more week to finish it before I start work so wish me luck. Discussion thread: //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/39847-donmcdazzles-69-land-rover/?p=1148665

My first go with a spray gun. I'm using matte black paint which sort of hides some of my rookie paintwork. Hopefully it'll turn out ok on the panels. These bits aren't really seen so they were good to practise on.

Bulkhead primed

Chassis tidied and then primed in pa10 etch primer.

So bit of a delay between posts here. I got a job up in Auckland and so haven't had a chance to do any more work on the truck. So my holidays have consisted of 10 hour days as I would like to finish it and drive it back up north. I have sanded and prepped the panels, tidied up and painted the chassis and have started putting things back together. Some photos:

Sorry for my delay mate, I'm up in Auckland for work. I'll be back down next weekend so will check out to make sure it's in good condition and all that then get back to you.

I've got a decent steering wheel for sure (whole steering column too). Not sure if I have separate hub flanges. I've got whole axles rebuilt that I would rather sell as complete units.

While I had it all in pieces, another thing I thought it would be good to do, and what a few British guys do, is get the steel body parts galvanised. I suppose the poms need it more as they salt their roads, but after taking off one massively rusty bulkhead/firewall I wasn't keen to have my nice one rust out. So I got that, the front panel that holds the grille and a part of the gearbox tunnel blasted and galvanised. I went to a bloke in Upper Hutt who did the media blasting, super reasonable rates and did a decent job on it. I then used an outfit in petone for the galv. Again pretty good rates. Combined the blasting and galv cost me $160 which I thought was a good price, and not that much to pay for hopefully a few extra years of rust protection. Front panel: Bulkhead:

And yes it does go a bit nicer with the Toyota stuff underneath. I've just today moved to auckalofa for work so won't be back down in wellington for 3 weeks, therefore progress is stalled for now. When I go back hopefully I can paint the chassis and make a start on reassembling it.

I've got a fair few spare parts I'd be happy to shift on; rebuilt axles and drum brakes, Holden 202 mated to a series gearbox with various reconditioned parts, wings, rear tray, two different kinds of roof, windscreens, window glass, leafs.. The list goes on.

It's a 3b, but I've got a 13bt exhaust manifold and turbo. It seems like turbocharging the 3b is a pretty common mod they do in the USA, especially as 13bt engines are a bit rarer.

In between cutting off the rear crossmember and putting the nice one on we got a hose and brush in the chassis and washed out all the dirt that had accumulated inside. I'm glad I did that when I had the chance as there was a fair amount of dirt in there. Here is the novel way of drying it out; using an old heater with a hose attachment and jacking up the front (heat rises and all that)

Off came the rear crossmember: On goes the donor one:

Sweet I've worked it out with photo bucket thanks mate!

Some of the areas needing work: