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

[Grizz1963]

Not sure if this should be on here, or in the Galaxy thread. As it kinda fits both.

But as the Rezin Rockit will be under the roof once it is up, I guess here is fine.

Steel guy said he will be here up to about 8.30 lets see when he gets here.

He is coming with a Sprinter pickup, so needs to reverse down the drive and get the steels down to site.

I needed to remove the caravans, trailer, scooter, mixer and other bits, up to the lawn, which is very wet and soggy.



Once cleared, I decided to make a “Selfie stick” and at 5 meters long, it got the job kinda done, but of course a drone would be better equipped to do the job.



Looking toward Mickeys place. Front right post is offset to the right, left ones are both attached as you will remember to the garage wall.



Looking over the hedge from 6 meters up, from Mickeys side. Hedge directly below.




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[Grizz1963]

Guys at my house by 7.45 and on site from 7.50

Been a long time coming.

So the truck was a bit wider than he thought..... poop.



So carrying all the shorter beams down, followed by using the cart Fil “Sparkplug” brought over to run one down, but it was almost the same width as the concrete strips, followed by using a narrower one to run the longer 6.5meter main front beam down.

It all got down there.







Followed by fetching the smaller van from over the street and getting it down to the bottom and unloading



Most awesome tool unloaded.



Primed



Lifting



Up there.




I needed to get indoors to speak to some people.

More later.

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[flashed]

Dang Rian , that looks great

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by flashed

Dang Rian , that looks great

HimJohn,

Good to see you here.

Thank you.

It’s a 10 year dream, almost to the day.


So typical of weekends, @CraigRK and I were chatting by 06.00 on WhatsApp about our weeks and then progressed to more important stuff.

Like the roof and what materials were needed.

It did not take long before we were in video more and getting sizes down.


So steel structure depth

At 4950 plus a 50mm overhang at the rear and a 500mm stabilised, but unsupported overhang to the front, it gives me a 5.5 meter deep carport.



Rear width on Mickeys boundary, overhanging the woodwork shed by 200mm is 5500mm including a 100mm unsupported overhang to the side.

On the front I offset the one post in order to maximise front access and that is 6500mm or 6.5 meter wide

For those who need to know, the shed overhang and front roof will be getting a small gutter and down pipe to catch whatever run off there is.



Front beam height is 8’1” or 2450mm on the garage side and about 2x or 40mm shorter on the shed side, as the roof is horizontal but the paving drains away gently toward the garage.



Rear beam is 7’5” or 2250mm high on the underside of the beam.




The plan we ended up with to do the quantity calculations.




So black is steel frame.

Red and Green are timbers, all 47x200mm high end C24 carcassing

Orange noggins were planned to be screwed into front timber and then also to blue 50x50 aluminium box section to stabilise unsupported front over reach roofing sheets.

Roofing unfortunately shows a 4-6 week lead time online, so I will call the supplier in the morning to see if there is any way of expediting my small order.

Roofing sheets will be Box Profile Sheets 32/1000 Rib - 0.7mm , PVC Plastisol coated and in Juniper Green.

Basket

Box Profile Sheet - 32/1000 Rib - 0.7mm - 5500mm x 1000mm - PVC Plastisol Juniper Green
Delivery 4-6 Weeks
Sku: BP32-947
£377.40

Foam profile fillers
£28.08

Barge boards
£65.48

Wood purlin screws
£34.84


Metal sheet stitching screws
£18.76

Screw colour caps
£10.62


Box Profile Sheet - 32/1000 Rib - 0.7mm - 2700mm x 1000mm - PVC Plastisol Juniper Green
Delivery 4-6 Weeks
£30.87


Summary
Subtotal £566.06
Shipping £78.00
Today's Discount £113.19
Order Total Incl. Tax £644.06
Apply Discount Code


The timbers need to be ordered locally.

Timber should be around £250.00 delivered.


Now headed out to try get the screen off the Rezin Rockit without destroying it.


Wish me luck.

[flashed]

Good Luck Rian

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by flashed

Good Luck Rian

Thanks mate.

Kinda failed, but still had a good weekend.


Been a busy weekend.

Out for dinner, loads done with Sally, and also on the carport frame.

This afternoon I made some chilli oil, using 8 scotch bonnet chillis finely sliced and added to a litre of oil

This will get to steep for a while and get better with time.



Then down to the garage for a bit at 2.30-ish.

The Cortina dash lip fell off in my hand when I tested it.



Pretty rotten, and not looking great.

HOWEVER....... I really like it and will be reinstating it once I figure out the best way to do it.

All of the mounting bolts, which were moulded into the rear, were rusted away significantly





Next up I tried to undo the passenger side mirror, reaching up inside the A-pillar

Had to escalate the process and remove some stainless tabs used to hold the kick panels in place.

Ultimately I broke out the grinder to clean up the rusted studs broken off on the dash, and to remove the ones keeping the stainless tabs that were in the way for trying to get to the mirrors.



Result.



Ultimately I did not get the mirrors off]

They are fixed up the A pillar, And I had a walking date with Sally, so packed up tools by 4.00pm

Next time the mirrors will hopefully come off.

Looking up the A-pillar, circled where the mirror bolts are.

The angle iron is part of the window frame support.




Weekend over, again.

[Grizz1963]

Found these videos.

I still think we are headed in the right direction

Antisocial?

https://youtu.be/DPTE4x_WbT8

Read between the lines

https://youtu.be/sjFblOmO6Hw

And not my taste but different enough

https://youtu.be/wlSwfumjXIo

Enjoy

[Grizz1963]

[quote author="@glenanderson" source="/post/2635906/thread" timestamp="1602933031"]I might have a spare chain hoist. Don’t spend any money until I have checked. [/quote]


Thought I may have one.

However........ No idea if it works or not.

If it is US then it’ could be why I have it in an old plastic bag, under the welding table.

Needs a clean up...... and if it works, then I will investigate a pulley system for it.







Mate Martin popped over today and left me with this.......


Seems it is part of a specific look (no, not disabled or crippled)



Quick release.



Soft grip.



As seen on here.



And here.

[LT7A]

That carport is sure coming together nicely. Do you live in a pretty temperate area? If it's like here, it's the rain that keeps you indoors during the winter, more than the temperature. Having a covered place to work, exercise, play would be a perfect solution. It's going to look good. You are well into the details on the RR and have gotten a lot of options. I'm not clear as to the theme. I was thinking little racer, like the Filipino rides, but the WW2 trenching tool has me confused. I'm not sure you appreciate my cautionary input, haha, but some things are important. You'll want to draw a line from the top of your planned rollbar to the front of the bonnet/hood and make sure your melon fits within that triangle when you're belted in. The windscreen is not going to help hold you up if upside-down happens. I always enjoy hearing about the help that you get from your far-flung contacts and how you propagate the spirit with how you treat the new ones. The guy who could laugh about the shipping on the hinges impressed me.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by LT7A

That carport is sure coming together nicely. Do you live in a pretty temperate area? If it's like here, it's the rain that keeps you indoors during the winter, more than the temperature. Having a covered place to work, exercise, play would be a perfect solution. It's going to look good. You are well into the details on the RR and have gotten a lot of options. I'm not clear as to the theme. I was thinking little racer, like the Filipino rides, but the WW2 trenching tool has me confused. I'm not sure you appreciate my cautionary input, haha, but some things are important. You'll want to draw a line from the top of your planned rollbar to the front of the bonnet/hood and make sure your melon fits within that triangle when you're belted in. The windscreen is not going to help hold you up if upside-down happens. I always enjoy hearing about the help that you get from your far-flung contacts and how you propagate the spirit with how you treat the new ones. The guy who could laugh about the shipping on the hinges impressed me.

Good to see your reply mate.

Thank you very much.

Temperate if below 6’C or 40’F in winter, often just bloody cold, but wet at times.
Covered space is both protective and weather proof-ish.
Filipino style antisocial tool.
The trenching tool if it is added, will just be a bit of fun, a nod to its origins.
Roll bar geometry makes a lot of sense.
I do want a low profile and more importantly a backward slant visually.
I think the hinge guy was pleasantly surprised by my offer to share postage cost.

I always like to keep my karma books balanced too.

[Grizz1963]

Can’t remember how long ago I buffed the headlights, but they needed a buff for the MOT tomorrow.

Mate Martin suggested it would be a fail, having opaque lights.

Before



After

[Grizz1963]

Though I would add this bit of a side report.

Some of you know I love a good knife, and buy them when I travel, trade some, find some etc.

A friend, Jonathan in North Carolina whom I have known for years runs Jon Hall Custom Knives for his hand made and hand forged knives and bladed tools.

He has wanted to make me a knife for a couple of years, in a style that I could use.

So this weekend he sent me some photos of what he had started on.

A full size Chef’s Knife, using Damascus steel and Buckeye Burl, stabilised with blue Resin scales





I absolutely love the detail one can get into Damascus steel.



Scales worked back.



By this morning, only final polish and finish was left to do.



Once again, feeling blessed and privileged and chuffed as hell.

I like this knife.

[Grizz1963]

You know that feeling before you step into the ring?

Like you know you are about to get your asss whupped.





I will pay a mechanic To replace the brake line

Light bulbs are my job, really interesting, last night I checked the lights, fluids etc, all worked.]

On the way to tha test station I heard the tone of the indicator change.

Welding.......

I will Put the car on ramps and take a look.

See where the yellow chalk of doom marked the rust, clean up, weld up, close up.

Hopefully pass the next time they see it.

[Grizz1963]

Went over to see my nearby neighbour on the way home today.

Weather sucked, and got to be pretty unpleasant. Chilly too.



Video:

https://youtu.be/rV1z1U__nNM

Kevin has been assembling the interior



We were talking about all the holes to fill on the Rezin Rockit when he pulled this stuff out.

Told me to try it on all the holes that need filling.

Anyone use it before?



Seems good on his build.

[Grizz1963]

*****ing, moaning, griping about a fail won’t fix it.

So today I took a day off work, I did need to burn off leave or lose it.

Slow start, and certainly some thinking to be done.

I had not actually seen the reason the car had failed before today.

So I lifted it up and crawled under it to see if I could find why it had failed.

And suddenly realised I owed the grumpy tester an apology







At this point I was chatting with mate @glenanderson who responded thus.

😕

Decision time then.

1) Patch it up quick and dirty to get another year’s ticket and spend the last couple of months of next summer looking for a replacement.

2) Do a proper job now, to keep it going indefinitely.

3) Walk away now before you put anything more into it.

I’d be doing 1) or 3).

So after the chat, I decided on a combination of primarily no 2.) and some of no 1.)

I never cease to be amazed at people who take all the time to bodge a job, when it takes just as long to do it right.



And started to clean up........

Loads of mastic welding under the skin.



Yellow chalk of doom evident.







Then cutting disc.



And fetched out my die grinder and it’s quick release discs.



Cleaned up.



Then used my CAD design and cut some plate, folded, prepped and fitted it.





Fine tuned.



Welded in



Other side







Looking at the amount of crud this side produced, I am amazed.



At this point I then added a bit of seam sealer, went to the house for a coffee and to check work emails, because I cannot step away.

Helped a colleague and waited the 20 minutes for he seam sealer to go off.

More in a bit.

[Grizz1963]

So after coffee, I grabbed the Wurth underseal

Sprayed it and tried to blend it with the underside.





So I was happy with the final result and needed to get the other side up







And ground back.

Hopefully the weather will be good tomorrow, so I can do the rest.

Did an initial grind back, more in the morning, and also cit out the rot, followed by making up patch panels.



Hope to get this done before the weather turns nasty in the morning.

After that........

Disassemble the front end in order to fit a side light one side and indicator lamp on the other side.

[Grizz1963]

Found a set of 15” steel wheels with tyres, in a look that I like, two tone, 8.5J wide and 60 miles from here.

Collecting at 5.30 tonight.

Makes it part of the adventure.



Decided to get some adapters.

4x108 to 4x100 which means other wheels are possibly closer to use.

Need two more cheap adapters to make my piggy bank happy.



Came off this.

Like the shopping list on the door.







Happy, yes.

[Grizz1963]

So part two today.

Unfortunately the weather did screw it up a bit.



Cutting out the rust, one of the things I have learned since a long time ago, is like with cancer surgery, you need to cut deep.
So cutting into good steel is part of the deal.



Cardboard Associated. Design.....

Translated into metal.



Tucked in



Tacked and. Then welded.



Once all the seams are welded in, use the persuader to tuck the fold in closer before welding that in as well.

Small spots at a time.



Weld



Grind, finish.



Then on to preparing the next two pieces.

Rot cut out.



Next plate cut, folded, ready.



And this one.



And then came the rain.......

A fairly serious amount. Enough to decide for me.

Pack up, two plates to weld in.



Found out one more thing from UKGSER

Originally Posted by Littledumptruck

Side light and indicator bulbs should be accessible via slide open panels inside the wheelarch Rian. No need to pull anything apart, but you might need long nose pliers to reach the bulb holders.

So that was it.

More tomorrow, weather permitting.

[Grizz1963]

Dennis in St Louis sent a pic of his NASCAR themed C10 trucks dash.

Wired up and ready to Rock n Roll.

This is the look I would love to replicate in the Rockit.



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[Grizz1963]

Part two today, racing against the weather, forecast as windy with a bit of rain today.

Magic stuff this Vactan, used it before.

Getting it into spaces, may help long term to slow things down.



Plates welded in, but scruffy, and ground back.



Würth stone chip stuff added.






Tried to get my hands into the back of the lights...... via the wheel arches, failed.

Called it a day on the Galaxy, but happy so far.

Other than the poxy lockdown..

[Grizz1963]

Got these home last night.



Seller has a wing on the car he is breaking..... loved it.



So it was wheels, spacers, and a set of wheel arch brows or whatever you want to call them. Saving them for another day.



He had 175/55 15’s stretched on these 15” 8J wheels, looked fine on the Kia, but hope to make them work on the Rezin Rockit

Cleaned them up a bit.







So now the trick will be to make them fit the car.

Adapters next.

[Grizz1963]

Actually thought I had posted these pics up too.


Firstly as it stands...... tall.



And second as I would love to see it, and how @joem83 wanted to see it.



We know a load of stuff will need to be moved about to get this thing to run that low.

But if nothing else, we will give it a bloody good go.

PS: still like the wheels.

[Grizz1963]

Friday we had the clinical trial quiz, followed by the zombie bake off......

Challenged to do a bit of fancy dress.....



This morning one of the new farmers tractors came out to play.

They are large and do take up a lot of space.





Anyway.....

I had a few small jobs left to do on the carport structure.

Started out with adding some support to the one side where a shorter 2.7 meter length of roofing needs to be added.



So created a welded up support to be added to the end of the main beam.



Thought that working alone, a support would make my life easier



Next thing Mickey is there, he heard me with the big grinder, cutting steel.

So I welded up the end plate and support.



Straight up like a scalded cat......



So completed.



And painted.




Happy with that.

[Grizz1963]

So today I needed to fix a small (Massive) cock-up that @CraigRK commented on yesterday.

If you did not know, you would not know.

So the roof actually goes another 500mm ahead of where it ended before.

Plan was to add the 500mm onto the new section made up yesterday.

So today it was fix up time.

Started by preparing some wood for the front face and supports.



Got the. Supports on, a wall plate against the garage wall too.



Trimmed the bottoms up.



Front facade added



Ready for roof sheets now.



Gutters still need to be fitted.

Weekend over, again.

[Grizz1963]

Early start, foggy.




Stolen off FB Marketplace

Just likes it, note the split front screen.



Postman delivered a box.

Sent by PedalcarJoe.

Straight into my new display cabinet.......



And a Rockit that will find its way onto or into the Rezin Rockit.




I had planned to get to the Rezin Rockit as well over the weekend, but the carport kept me busier than planned.