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howdy fellas, i have recently bought another drover ('86) tin top and i mainly got it for the body as it literally had rust only on the passenger door. it is in original condition and the tacho says 130,000ks! engine is farked
so here is the deal. i am going to swap all my interior inlc. seats, stereo, panels, rubber carpet. windows. wheels. engine. bullbar etc into the new beast.
before i do all that, what do you guys reckon i should do to the 'new' one before i slap everything into it? eg. have you found that it is easier to do something to the dash with both seats out? any little mods that would be handy to do now as it currently has hardly anything in it. ill put a link up soon for pics
oh and bought the little POS for 550 . still got rego to! heh
cheers guys,
Sami
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haha no Zute.. i bought the body for that reason.. it had a good one!
but i like your idea about getting to the fan/heaters and cleaning it all out. ill go through me manual on how to put it back together once i have had too many beers and cant remember how it all fits
oh and Nic yeh will be running 12v to rear panels for my fridge. thanks for reminder.
i have a central locking kit for the beast as well so while the door trim is off i may as well lob that in.. found a good link for that stuff and other DIY projects (http://www.boostcruising.com/forums/lof ... /f174.html )
am thinking of doing the red LEDs in the dash..looks sweet.
also sound deadening doors may be the go as well.. time consuming though.. one guy had a good thought on some site, about taping up the door internals.. like the wires going from the inner door handle as the tend to rattle.. i know mine do.
had a look at the heaters/fan and i turned them on and nothing happened.. played with switches back and forth from recirculate to fresh and a clump of something fell down and the fans started working.. haha
then i heard leaves blowing round and get stuck and the fan stopped again.. it works intermittently now.. how would i go about cleaning out the fan and motor etc? is it a right b1tch to do?
i guess i will find out soon eh barathrum? ill check the field manual as well before i pull it out.
spike you in perth are ya? had my eye on the zook for ages but the guy kept trying to get more cash than i was offering. had 1000 on it and still in rego.. i offered 550 and he said he was waiting for someone else that didnt have the cash yet.. so i waited two weeks then i got it!
ill let you know how it goes though. will be respraying it and doing a fair bit of work to the beast. pics up tonight.
pic of passenger side. note the spot of rust on the door.. thats the only spot of rust!
driver side (note the safe as houses lockable fuel cap )
let me know if yas want photos of the interior.. this may turn into a build up project yet
scraped the old sound deadener crap from the driver and passenger sides! sticky stuff! took out the old working am radio.. was going to mount my new stereo into that original housing.. anyone got a template or ideas for doing this??
yeh it was a bit of a good buy. it was an old alcho dudes car.. full of anteeze sachets and was just his daily driver to the pub. engine is farked.. some serious piston slap or something! not good
it hasnt been offroad so i am yet to check if the tranny is good and so on so tomorrow may be the day it gets a test.. find a nice spot and ill take more piccies
Held up in mine so far, everything else is breaking around it thou.
CAT. NO. HB5924 from jaycar i think or similar. can measure mine if needed.
I have done a steel front plate and then carried it through for the top mount and that then screws up to the original screws. I have put the bottom of the case on after the stereo and housing has been mounted.
Nic
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yeh i lobbed a 10in sub (1000W) haha. dont like having it on as people get sh1tty with me let me know if you want pics. mine is mounted sweet. i will take photos when i put it in this beast.
haha 10in is way more than enough man! no complaints so far
i have a 10in JBL cost 75 bucks (mates rates) and installed into a professionally made sub box to suit the driver itself.
my bro and i went for a drive and i had it set to 3/4 of the way up and stereo on half and my roof was 'popping'! scarey shiz
when bass kicked in my windows rattled and you could feel the roof flexing and snapping back
here are a few pics of what it looked like when i first got it home
straight 'bully'
if anyone wants the bully or the old seats (they are shockers) let me know before they get thrown out..
Traced faceplate onto some 3mm ply but decided to just use the plastic.. looks better and just have to cut it a bit to fit the stereo
this is the piece needing to be cut out of the facelplate.. just followed the line that was already there.. make sure you cut from behind in case you get a bit wonky with the stanley knife!
Stereo mounted into enclosure with new cig lighter and some ply on the inside to keep the stereo level once installed. (will change this in the future)
let me know what you reckon so far.. will install it this weekend and take piccies of that as well if you guys want?
doing the engine swap over this friday night and will be doing the interior on saturday. so i decided to neaten up the rear interior a bit before putting the panels in and also the rubber floor covering. instead of repainting the standard colour i chose to use some spray on sound deadener in the rear panels, floor and wheel arches. trying my best to keep noise out.
i sprayed it with cans of Sound deadener from Auto Pro.. 11.95 a can.. found them yesterday at Bunnings for 8.95 :(.
once the panels are ready to go in (door and rear panels) i will also spray the inner facing side with sound deadener spray or lay some dynamat bitumen matting.. here is how it looks. before and after before after floor sprayed
once completed it will ahve the black rubber matting (6mm) and have carpet with studs over the wheel arches so that they clip on and off for cleaning.
what do ya reckon?
. still got rego to! heh
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