GRIZZ’s ‘79 - 2WD BLAZER Challenge over in London, England. “~It’s not a Project~”

[Grizz1963]

Well...........

Seems we have a killer in our midst.

Looks like I will have to sleep with one eye open.

https://youtu.be/7F3gu61rZIg

Day started off easy enough.



My wok day was busy.

Took the Galaxy out over late lunchtime for some food buying.

Got back and a note said there was a parcel in the secret stashing place.

I thought it was the 8 oz pack of catnip I had bought for Molly.

Till I noted the address.



So the cogs started to turn.....

Till the tumblers dropped and it turned out to be Nicola my ex who had sent prezzies.

Unpacked, she inspected then all.



Then picked up the catnip Christmas penguin and took it to the couch she has chosen to sleep on during the day with me.



Seriously............

This is Kill no 4 for the day, that I know of.



Imagine when I open the back door in two weeks.....

It will be a bloodbath

[Grizz1963]

Second session of Duck oil today.

Let’s hope it all works when the time comes.

Looking at many of the nuts and bolts, it will be a challenge


Took some more decent pics of underside as well.

To see what the collective opinion is ow what this undercarriage is from





Front end





And switches and dash.

Previously identified as Cortina Crusader.



;it’s of gotten rubber and missing parts here.

Future challenge

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[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by PaulMc0308

Looks like Ford Cortina MkIII, MkIV, MkV







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Originally Posted by Tommo3

Yeah, I thought I had said MkIV Cortina probably a base model judging by the steering wheel like a 1600L

Thanks guys.

That is great info and Paul, thanks for the pics, really helpful.


Another reply elsewhere copied.

Originally Posted by ian6760

Blood hell this takes me back, as said in my pm, I had one of these around 30 years ago.

The original kit was ford or range rover. The donor car on the ford was mark iv or v cortina running gear and the pinto engine dropped straight on the mounts with standard engine mounts. The cortina prop shaft needed the centre joint removing cut down and rebalanced. I also changed my engine for 3.0 v6 and Granada gearbox with little effort but managed to kill it and went back to the pinto.
The kit options included a set of 16” weller 8 spokes with a serious offset which filled the arches nicely, but it would eat void bushes and wheel bearing on a annual basis. Iirc I had 300/85 r16 ballon tyres on it which didn’t help with wearing everything out. I became extremely good at swapping void bushes. I later swapped it to landrover tyre and it was a lot better.

The running gear on yours looks original cortina iv/v to me.

I had the fibreglass hard top which bolted on which had of all things a robin reliant rear window. Plus fibre glass full doors which lifted off. I had a soft top for mine too which I never used and sold it to my mate Stu who also had one. How pissed off was he, just as he was about to put his on the road thinking it was a one off I started driving around in mine. We both had a swing out spare wheel carrier which was needed to open the back window. I think this came as part of the hard top kit.

Stu swapped his rear suspension to Sierra giving independent all round but it was still sketchy. He has also gone through many Diesel engine through its life too. He then went full on and mounted the body to a shortened Toyota hilux chassis and still drives it around as his daily driver to this day.

I’ll dig out some pics and scan them.
I bought mine built, it was the ex-demo that eagle dragged around various shows to sell (Q999PDS), I finally swapped it for a SJ410. Stu built his from scratch, but I did so much on mine I think I touched, fixed or replaced every part on it.
Happy to answer any questions you may have.

[Grizz1963]

Soooooooo


Long story short-ish.

Cat has gone back to the yard.

Took her to the vet this morning for a full physical and to check for a micro chip, to fit one if not present.

Found to be healthy and compliant.

BUT


BEEEEEP !


Microchip fitted.


Registered owner contacted.


Here it gets interesting, they wanted it returned, as it is a “Yard Cat” WT actual F?


I suspect it was a house cat someone got tired of, and to quiet their conscience it was sent to a trucking yard near to Darrens yard. The cat then found her way to a nicer place ie. Darrens yard where she was fed and fussed about etc.


So have taken her back, before mate Darren gets his head kicked in.


Story over.


Last pics





Loves a rug roll .




Headed back.




And yes, I am gutted, sorry for the cat.

But that’s life.


Next!

[Grizz1963]

The vet who saw Molly/Burger/Jasmine this morning, did call the owners a second time to try understand why they were behaving the way they were.

Also, forgot to mention that the vet deleted the cost of the full physical and consultation he had given her this morning against the entry of “Stray”

Really decent of him, and also kind. I had asked for the £40.00 full fat option and was happy to pay him for his service.

Once again, just shows that what goes around, comes around.

[Grizz1963]

No USA road trip this year.

But @CraigRK and his family are headed here today, to look at houses and schools in the area.

Yes, that would be pretty cool.

So along with him, come a free tractor for @glenanderson and a b@start heavy compressor for @PaulY plus my 500kg hydraulic lift.

This will be a really useful tool in the Rezin Rockit build once I create a simple lifting frame to lift the chassis once the body is split away.



Interestingly, all items are landing at zero purchase cost at to all of us.






This will be a good day.

[Grizz1963]

Saturday late afternoon.

Back to bits n bobs that will make up this car.

Looking for one of these, drivers side mirrors to buy or trade, as it does not look like you can get in there to replace the mirror (unless I did not look in the right place)



Codes on the rear. Advice on where to find the cheapest option appreciated.



Have managed to buy these two unused TRS circuit racing window nets today for £25.00 including postage. Which feels like a decent price. Seller is a cool guy too.



So I hear you say “Why?”

If I can find two pairs of original, or some kind of external bolt through door hinges to fit and then create the net doors I want to make up to hang from them, it would be pretty cool.




Mate @CraigRK and his wife and 8 yo daughter came over to visit today and check out the house market in this corner of Kent.

He brought the various bits n bobs for people, including my “Free” bike lift.

Looking forward to getting it under the Rockit chassis.

The other item he brought, which needs to be processed and made to work, is a WW2 trenching tool.

This will be affixed to the rear of the car once I remove the spare wheel carrier which I am not intending to keep.



Almost 6.00pm

Time for a Rum so I can be a pirate.

ARRRR !

[Grizz1963]

And less than an hour after asking for info about the mirrors fitted, I had two replies.

This one via PM From the same guy who saves me thousands years ago when I was rebuilding the kitchen , by letting me use his trade card.

Rian,

I've a L/H and R/H set of MUD blind spot mirrors that were on one of my Defenders that you're welcome to. They'll fit on standard LR Defender mirror mounts.

https://www.mudstuff.co.uk/products/...nd-spot-mirror

I'm not in Whitstable any more so not sure how they'll get to you.

Let me know and if you do want them, just pay it forward.
David


And on Retro Rides there was this reply.


[quote author="[member=18814]kevins[/member]" source="/post/2631166/thread" timestamp="1601144324"]Are these the ones?








[/quote]


Forums are pretty cool ehh?

[Grizz1963]

Made up a small chassis number plate to add to the fibreglass body this week.

I will screw it inside the glovebox in the end.

The chassis number is on the chassis leg as expected, but not very well accessible.

I wondered if it will be visible once the motor is back in, and it has been painted in under seal.


Nice to have the right tools.

Thanks Bootfair.




Need to get the RX8 seats out of the C10 cab in the garage to start removing all the motors to lighten the drivers side up.

Also need to find out if MX5 rails can be used on them.

[Grizz1963]

A good weekend, not a lot of car time, but all good.

No Bootfair, cold, miserable and windy.

So at about 2.00pm Sally was back and started a fire



So I took out the seats from the C10 cab and brought them up to the Rezin Rockit.



The plan was to remove all the motors from the drivers seat in order to lighten it.

At almost 27kg or 4.5 stone, it weighs a lot more than the passenger seat.

In the end I decided not to strip it, but rather to ask more questions.







And then with safety harness added.

But it is not going to work, unless I figure out a decent anchoring option that allows it to hold you in safely.



And a moment to grin.

How to take a selfie alone, in order to see what this will look like, plan the roll bar and also start thinking about what it would look like possibly cutting the screen down by 100mm or so.


Balance the camera in a tea mug on top of stuff, set 10 second timer ad race and jump into car up on axle stands.



And there you go.

Seat cannot go much lower.




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[Grizz1963]

And as the saying goes.......

Never rains, it pours.

Parcel delivered this afternoon by the postman.

Void Bush Tool

Thanks to Paul in Norwich.



In other news, after stalling for about 5 weeks, due to their work commitments, the steel guys were on site to do final measurements and fine tune my needs.

Glad they were, as I confirmed some stuff, and changed some a bit to make sure the Carport will deliver as much added value as possible.

Once the roof is up, I can move the Rezin Rockit in under there, and start disassembly to remove the body and hang it up out the way in order to see what we can do with the chassis.




So next they manufacture all the parts, then bring it to site, and assemble to following day.

Hopefully not another 5 weeks.

[Grizz1963]

So the unused TRS Side nets got purchased for £25.00 and Duncan has posted them down

Plan is to make side doors as discussed before.

I do not want a roof or doors on this thing, and it came without any of that.

So I started to look for Land Roved Series 3 door hinges or something similar.

Found some.........

On EBay





Found some more.....





I did not like the pricing though.


Kept scrolling down and down and down.


Then found these used items.


The real thing.








Of course I bought them, immediately


Price?


£13.50 delivered.


We have hinges it seems.


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[Grizz1963]

@glenanderson seems to have a share in this build now

I was headed for Uncle Bobs yard today, but he was not there, so I could not investigate the Land Rover he had offered me before, or ask if he had another spare screen to sell, though we know hoarders rarely sell anything.

How high ?

Rezin Rockit : Total height 19” or 480mm Glass height 400mm

Land Rover Series 2



Rezin Rockit : Top of screen width 55”

Land Rover Series 2



Rezin Rockit: Bottom of screen width 59.5”

Land Rover Series 2



Nice design on top edge.



Screen.



And finally........

Best of all.

With a bit of design cleverness, one may just see this car with a fold down screen.



Would that be cool or what?

Needs a bit of a clever design to keep the screen upright. And no, I do not want to tie it to the roll bar really.

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[Grizz1963]

Another parcel landed for the car today.

All the way from Scotland


Thanks Jimi





I did go look for my rev counter or tachometer if you are American.

Could not find it.

Yet.

[Grizz1963]

So my current postie is a lady called Sasha.

Suddenly I look forward to having parcels delivered, maybe I should order more stuff.

Working from home kinda sucks, it’s lonely, trust me.

She has been chatty, and in less of a rush to just throw your post or parcels at you, like an Aldi checkout assistant.

Today she delivered a small, heavy parcel. It surprised me.

Check the price of postage.



So the hinges I had bought for £13.50 had arrived.



I messaged @PaulY and mentioned the postage which was included in the price, kinda bothered me.

Before I could say what I planned, he suggested I offer to pay part of the postage back to the seller. There are many people right now in financial dire straits, selling stuff to keep alive.

So £3.50 off the £10.00 is £6.50 and £4.00 is probably 70% of the knock. Keeping up in the back?

So I messaged him



And this was his reply.

Hopefully Karma is happy too.

Life is good if you try spread a bit of the good.




Then I tried the hinges which are bloody heavy, like a pound of butter, up next to the mock up door.




Then outside to try them up against the Rezin Rockit, looks like the original hinges were a lot smaller.

There is also a significant space or rebate behind it where the door frame will fit in.





I spoke to Darren earlier too, asking if I could use his some of his tools at the shop.

I need to put a slight bend in the leading edge plates to deflect wind and allow a place to attach the net. Using my own home made metal bender may not be so tidy.

Darrens will do, thankfully.

I also asked if I could use his bead roller..... yup, roll a bead around the edge to create a but of strength and rigidity.

He replies that I was welcome to come over and use any tools, and that there was a cat waiting for attention.



Made me smile for sure.

Life is good yes.

[Grizz1963]

Quicky before bedtime.

Mate Fil has done a couple more designs.



And then this.



Needs more fine tuning, I think.

[Grizz1963]

[Grizz1963]

Well, the thread heading got changed this morning, and then Photobucket bombed.

Stilllll........


Progress it seems.





Just got to wait for them to process the documents and send me a V5c for the car, then we are halfway there.

Carport next to get completed.

[Grizz1963]

So another week has come and gone, and still COVID-19 keeps us prisoner.

But in between, we can keep our sanity in many ways.

Today @glenanderson popped up for a nice 3 hour visit, which saw us putting the world to rights, and ironing out some design ideas for the Rezin Rockit, both the screen and suspension was looked at.

We discussed the state of the world, unions, train schedules, EasyJet, health, welfare, scrapping cars, hoarding.

Just a perfect afternoon after a hectic week.

Poor guy, inbetween I was still fielding customer an colleague concerns and wrote a short test on a clinical trial

Glen came to drop of his newly galvanised front window frame from his Land Rover, for me to use in the mocking up part of the build.

He also brought a load of M6 and M10 bolts from his stash, and some door mechanisms, a windscreen securing bolts and plate, plus a shim to copy for the new to me, door hinges.

And a book on building a sports car at home, that will be filled with tips.





So eventually it became time for him to head home and me to get on the Friday wrap up Zoom meeting.

We had loaded the tractor @CraigRK had brought for him last weekend, and the spare mower that had stood in my garage, then garden for too long.




We had offered up the screen too, thankfully without its glass as it gets to be a bit heavy After a while.

I need to use it for making up the supports for it up front.

[Grizz1963]

So.

Screen time.

I really like the flow of this screen and roll bar on this Land Rover.

No plan for a full cage or screen roll bar.



So when @glenanderson came over and brought his screen for me to use as a mock up sample, we offered it up.





And some idea of the tilted back look, use your imagination to place it in its final resting place.




So yesterday Sally helped me get a few pics, in order to get a better visualisation of what is planned.



Side view





Starting to like this.

Looking forward to creating the supports and then removing the existing screen.

[Grizz1963]

Well, some of you may have forgotten by now.

But I have waited since August to get a carport steel frame up.

Lots of jobs have been on hold as I wanted the carport completed before I carry on raking stuff apart etc.

Remember summer?

Posts in perspective.

Loads of work to get to this simple point.



Other direction




Got a WhatsApp message from the steel guy today.

My steels are ready, now he is waiting for some dry days to deliver and put up the steels.

I had also asked him for grey oxide paint, rather than red oxide, better reflection of light of course.






Once the steels are up, the next job is to order the roofing materials, and hopefully then Mickey and I can get the roof up fast.

After which the Rezin Rockit will move in there, along with some other clutter, nd we can carry on with it, given the V5c arrives.

[Grizz1963]

Bikini roof was in my head from the start, despite not wanting a roof or much weather protection.

After cutting the grass, I was weeding the paving in front of the garage, and found this under the storage caravan.

Also found that the welding caravans one wheel that I pumped p on Monday, had blown out, so need to go get a new tyre fitted.

Bikini time again: Attaching it to the front screen in a way that prevents water ingress would be a challenge, but this old trick should work.

I need a longer one by 150mm or so, but this can work too.

Caravan window hinge. Simple C shaped design, sew some rope onto the roof canvas/vinyl and slide it into the groove.

Secure up front, attach rear tails along roll bar.

Job done. Happy days.






Easy.

[Grizz1963]

[quote author="@65mustang" source="/post/2633524/thread" timestamp="1602053125"][quote source="/post/2633372/thread" author="@grizz" timestamp="1601999800"]Of course, so would I.

So banding them to get to ET - 0 would be the plan.


Tell me more......?[/quote]
Cant upload pictures, but they are 16 inch widened peugeot wheels 4x108 with et 31 and we had them on a Audi 80. With new tires newly powdercoated gloss black.

250 euro's and they are your's [/quote]

Funny how these things escalate. Messages above copied.

Thanks @68mustang

So one needs to get them from Werkendam in the Netherlands to Rochester 🚀. Maybe there is a 🐎 express opportunity out there.












Looks like 205 R45 16’s and 215 R45 16’s if I read correctly.

[Grizz1963]

Crazy as it way seem.

My one caravan had a blowout on the driveway.

Was looking for a 4 stud, 13”’ caravan wheel and tyre. Or just a used tyre to fit on my wheel as tyre shops had no part worn 13” tyres.



So plan B

Fixed this tonight after work using a space saver Mickey tossed a year or two ago. Same stud pattern, but centre bore was too tight.

Thanks to Andy my old lodger, I used a tungsten carbide burr to trim it away to fit.



Job done.



Yes, different caravan, swapped out wheels, keeping the welding caravan once carport is up.

The storage one will be headed to a new home.

[Grizz1963]

Still,waiting,for the V5c which the letter from DVLA suggested could be here by tomorrow or early next week if all went well.

HELP AND ADVICE NEEDED PLEASE.


Opinions we know, differ a lot.


I like this style of wheel based on the Driver Style cars from the Philippines




Saw these last night. And at £80.00 it seems a worthwhile avenue to investigate, if one can make changes at an affordable, SAFE level.
I am not clever with the whole pcd/et/spacer/wobble bolt/tuner wheel bolt thing, but know what I like the look of, and also that not everything is actually doable in the real world.




Seller had these fitted to his car using some of these bolts.

Remember, the Rezin Rockit has old skool Ford hubs with regular studs....... so where does one turn with conversions etc, one rear drum is missing, one front brake calliper is busted off, so starting fresh is possible.
Does one go with spacers (not sure I like them a lot, but....)



This is what they offer,et - 35 so a long way from et - 0 needed to fill out especially the rear arches.



So these are the wheels, one has a small dent, which I do suspect can be traightened with a decent protected lump hammer if needs, but not too bothered as he said it was still air tight.



Two have tyres fitted as well.




So come on clever people........


Can it be done?