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Originally Posted by Bomp
Looks like things are moving in the positive.
Merry Christmas
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Originally Posted by flashed
Nice looking part ,Merry Christmas .
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Originally Posted by Palf70Step
Very Nice!. Merry Christmas Rian!
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Thank you all very much guys.
Here's to an even better2016 filled with all we need and a bit of what we want as well.
With the rebuild of the truck, there are some parts that one would be silly not to just replace while in there.
It's things like this that pushes up the price of a rebuild, but if my wife does not know.........
The springs and clips on the drums for my and Martin's trucks are only going to cost us $10.00 per end plus postage so for $20.00 or £13.50 the brakes will have new parts again.
Having a great friend like Don in Arkansas makes these things a lot easier, so Martin and I asked him to arrange the parts for us and I popped some cash over via PayPal (Thank you mate) to pick them up for us and send them through when he gets time away from work and other responsibilities.
Last night he sent these pics......
They do look a lot more impressive than some of the rusty, dodgy bits that came off my truck.
Martin came over today as he needed some steel, we popped over to my favourite yard to look for some steel for his gearbox cross member that he now has to manufacture. He also needed to look at some parts on my truck that he needs to copy.
With Martin's extra hands my cross member is now bolted in, and the drivers side LCA bolted in. The passenger side needs its ball joint to be removed as the LCA is damaged and will be replaced by the one that came from Paul "NevEno" once I push in the ball joint.
And an even more awkward job done as it needed a spare hand to lift the trailing arms in via the jack and getting the bolts through and buttoned up.
Next I need to contact a member on Volkszone who previously sent me a PM to offer his press, should I need it, so that I can push the one out and fit it to my new LCA.
Another small job that to done was cleaning up the little BT toolbox that will be fitted under the bed.
Scraped all the excess paint, then some blasting and flap wheel grinding, next will be rust converter and a couple of coats of Hammerite. All it needs in my book, maybe a coat of underseal too.
That's it for today.