Vintage Grumble

You said it has to have a WOF though, puhuhuhuhu. Will see if I can get er dun in time.

Oh hell no. Guess that's out then, lols.

Are side by sides permitted? I could try out my ECU with the speed limit delete/blow all my CV's.

That's very kind of you Sir, but I have a tame tuner in town (my BIL is a haltech certified installer/tuner), I just need to get the car out and tuneable, lols. I have taken the first steps, new battery sorted & a welding blanket has been purchased. I really don't want to melt/catch the dash on fire when I do the rust repairs.

THE SOUTH AE86'S WILL RISE AGAIN!!

Awww gummon. Yeh poor car was way down the list of projects to be completed, but has been moved to about 3rd equal now, lols.

So I haven't used the old girl for roughly 4 years (I think I stopped using it around the first COVID lockdown) and I find myself pining to hoon it again. I was going to give it a real big birthday, but have realized that now is not the time (shitty old house and young kids sucking up huge amount of time and resources) so I have decided to do the bare minimum to get it back on the road. I want to use it for Nats 25, so have roughly 4 months to achieve WOF status. It should need fairly minimal work to get a WOF really, but last time I didn't use it for this length of time (Took me 4 years to panel/paint it, and that was about 10/11 years ago) all manner of I'll shit went wrong with it, so who knows. So it defiantly needs: Cracked windscreen taken out, rust repaired under said windscreen, paint and then new screen fitted. It might need: Drivers side headlight has a small hole in it, but has clear tape over it, it was getting WOFs like this in the past. I have a replacement lens to go on, but in the past I reattached the lens with silicon rather than polyurethane, so might be a bastard to get the old lens off. I've always had trouble with the adjusters braking/popping off, so will try find a solution for that while its apart. Things I want to do/long term items: Change all fluids, bleed brakes etc. Send mesh wheels away to be re-barreled (lols, like that's ever going to happen) Fix up a few dents/chips/cracks and repaint the whole car again. It needs to be tuned again, its running crazy rich under acceleration ATM. It has a few fatigue cracks around the place than need welding up and painting. General clean up of lights/indicators/bumpers etc. FINALLY sort out rear main seal leak Sunroof mech needs a new part, which I think I have, just have to find & fit it. This list will get a lot longer when I actually dig it out of the shed, wash it and do an inspection. The chap that was doing my WOF's before I stopped using it has also moved back to the area and is back in business doing WOFS, so that will help my cause a little. Cars not dodgy, but helps to have a dude do it that knows the car kinda I guess. And a random pic of a very similar looking car for inspiration and to tart up such a dull post a bit. (dem USDM bumper though, yikes) Regards, VG.

Way too many, its amazing how much time it can take to do fairly simple things in a half assed way. Dunno how skilled patient people get anything done. So got a bit more done, cut out and installed the last bit of floor, and the seat base. Got the boy onto sealing/priming them, Then I made up the tow bar and bumper support doofer. Made another bumper the same as the front, not how the real ones have it, but needed something to try protect the lights & body, Then I welded a bit of pipe down the length of the shassis, to protect the wiring, Then I thought I better make the throttle pedal fit. The old one is basically a full scale thing, and it takes up a lot of real estate. I thought about modifying it, but ended up just buying a much smaller one off Ali, Then I dismantled the shassis for paint prep, and discovered the motor is going moldy from all the fruit the kids have run over in the back yard, ewww. Also, one of the brush holders is coming out, so i'll have to fix that. I'ma pull the axle to bits and grease it all up real good too. Then I made up a little dash panel, which I didn't like, because the charge port looks ewwey there, and the switches are ugly and very wonky. The body of the switches are on a huge gangster lean to try make them look straight in the front. So I found a new home for the charge port (hidden up behind the dash) and got some new, much less wonky switches. This panel will get painted white, Charge port and charge diddle, Got some threaded wood insert things and slapped the dash thing in, Then prepped and started painting all the bits and bobs, Then today we finally got some sun so starting slapping colour on the body (this is just the first coat), And then primed the shassis, The CRC cans I'm using for the body have been complete cunts. I'm shaking the piss out of them for ages, and heating them up in hot water, but some cans constantly clog nozzles, others have shitty nozzles that put out fuck all paint, and others chuck out too much, spitting out big droplets, so its been a bit of a cunt. I'm keeping the good nozzles and reusing them, but damn, sort your shit out CRC. The fucking thing might be finished in the next update. Maybe. Regards, VG. Probably not though.

This made me think of the project binky bendy driveshaft thing. And that they are waaaaaaaaaaaaay overdue for a new episode. Edit: It's been over a fucken year!

May I ask where you acquired that muffler?

He possibly cant now, I know my wank sponge can only go on the backing plate one way.

Thats most excellent! Worth a shot to see how they come out. Someone's even done the whole grill too (not that I could use it) https://www.printables.com/model/117207-toyota-land-cruiser-grill

SOOooOOoOOOoo I took a week off to finish the trailer, and didn't even touch it, started on the kids mini land cruiser instead, lols. I did take the SXS to nats, which has been its only outing for fucking ages (too many jobs at home to be done). Photographic proof of it being used (thanks to @Thousand Dollar Supercar) It was good to have a hoon on a flat surface (big thanks to @Thphantum) to try and get used to the handling, 4WD is still a bit strange to me. Didn't roll it, which was excellent. And seeing as I've hardly used it, I decided to waste more money on it, by buying a second hand set of the correct OEM bead lock 14" rims complete with more aggressive mud spec tyres, as my local track is often muddy as a son of a gun. The other reason for buying these, is so in the future I can go to a bigger tyre to gain a bit of ground clearance. It currently has 27's, the new tyres are 26's, but there's waaaaaaaaaay more options for bigger tyres in a 14". I've found out, nearer the end of the day, I start to have ground clearance issues, as the modern SXS's all run way bigger tyres (I think most come with 33's standard, and some go up to 35's) and they dig huge trenches in the tracks, so going up a few sizes should help with that issue. Can't go too big though, cos I don't have the power/gearing for dat. And a pic of what my SXS is actually meant to look like, with the rims I've just purchased (wish I still had all the black plastics rather than the fucking rainbow it is now sadface.com) Lame update sorry, don't have much to do at work, lolololols. Regards, VG.

I actually have an ATV winch from my adventure mower, but its a bit too big. Also I wouldn't trust my kids with a winch, they will get up to no good with it. At the very minimum I need to come up with "TOYOTA" badge for the front grill, either in laser cut wood or maybe a sticker? And I would also like to get the "Toyota land cruiser" stickers for the side of the bonnet. Could probably get them all 3D printed I guess? They would just need to come out pretty smooth, and I have no idea if that's achievable or not?