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OK its been a while, how as Franks old Paj going, or is it ???.

Hi, look about 4 posts below

http://www.outerlimits4x4.com/phpBB2/vi ... p?t=121040

im getting there, slowly, almost abvout ready to swap the two bodies.

ill put up some piccies and what not and a bit of a writeup when i get a chance.

dean

Will you paint the springs pretty blue in this one aswell Dean?

theyre already aqua, but the girlfriends condition on buying it was that the sprinbs would be pink

dean

rightio,

just thought id put up a bit of an update, i think cheezy is kinda interested how this is going and also there may be a few others.

so pretty much im about 95% finished. Just gotta chop the rear quarters and get a few things like compressors, tacho, fuel guage all working and im done.

Then its time for engineers, then blue slip, then written off vehicle check, then green slip, then rego and its driving.

heres some piccies for all to enjoy, just for the info, it was my dad and i did all the work, the crane helped a bit, and it was done in about 5 days.

enjoy could take a while to download, especially if your on dial up

dean

dOOde...
Heckuva crane to use! 15T franna not available?? Last time i checked, a little franna would be about 150 per hour, min 2 hours...

ahhaha yeh was a big crane. Had a 15t franna come first, could get into the backyard but not enough room to move cos frannas dont swivel. This was cheaper than what you have written anyways

was by far the best and easiest and most controlled way ever of doing a body swap. Could lift millimetres at a time and could pause whenever we wanted to check shit and didnt bend the roof like a know a few have with tractors and forks.

Hell of a way to do a bodylift too

dean

when you planning on having it finished? gotta do a wattos trip soon

klrevo wrote:ahhaha yeh was a big crane. Had a 15t franna come first, could get into the backyard but not enough room to move cos frannas dont swivel. This was cheaper than what you have written anyways

was by far the best and easiest and most controlled way ever of doing a body swap. Could lift millimetres at a time and could pause whenever we wanted to check shit and didnt bend the roof like a know a few have with tractors and forks.

Hell of a way to do a bodylift too

dean

looking the goods mate btw a 2 poster hoist works just as well

Looking sweet Dean, what are you going to do re the plastic flares and the quarter chop? As i'm considdering it myself.

Is it just the wine I've been drinking or does anybody else feel like shedding a tear?

It's great that the Poojabber lives on but I can't help feeling we're witnessing the end of an era.

Yep - it's gotta be the alcohol. Irish wake, anybody?

M1S3RY wrote:Looking sweet Dean, what are you going to do re the plastic flares and the quarter chop? As i'm considdering it myself.

I'm about to aswell. Can you take a pic of Frank's chopped quaters Dean ?

would havebeen an interesting job for the crane crew. was that a 12t or 16t city crane?

and did u say that was guna be ur girlfriends car?

hahaha nah not the girlfriends car, i was mucking round when i said the springs are going to be pink

as far as the quarters, iv done them, they look sweet, and iv cut the flares to match, ill put up pics in the near future.

ill do a full write up and full pics for everybody when its on the road legally and driving. For now i have a permit from the RTA to drive it to NEwcastle next Tuesday for Eng. Cert

shouldnt be long.

dean

just for the few who questioned about the quarters, the old 4" grinder and 1mm disc did the trick, a pair of tin snips, some checker plate, pop rivets and silastic finished it off.

trick is to cut it off about 15mm below where you want the quarter to to be cut off and fold the 15mm under to have a lip to rivet to. Rivet the checker plate to the under side and silastic the edges.

the fiberglass mouldings were cut with a wood saw freehand. Looks okay to me. Maybe one day ill be bothered to fill the undersides of the mouldings with fiberglass but until then its all good.

a pic of the finished product to be engineered very soon, then blue slip, WOVR check, and then rego.

cheers,

dean

Dean you are doing very well to restrain yourself - how do you sleep at night knowing that all you want to do is go play!

hahaha mostly because the days have been very long the last 3 weeks.

6am work on the car, wash up about 2pm, get ready for work, go to work 3pm, work til 1am, sleep and get up and work on the car again

theres been some long days. And to top it off, went to go this morning to the engineer at Newy, could would turn over but not fire, has been fine for the past 2 weeks. Turns out the computer wasnt happy, lucky i got a spare ey

the backyad will be getting empty pretty bloody soon, the jabber is out, the rims and bullbar gone on saturday, the rolling chassis should be picked up tommorrow.

now i just gotta get rid of the shorty and all the rest of the bits and pieces laying around. I will keep some spares.

dean

this is how it look now in comparison to the shorty.

this was this morning after the trip to newy to the engineer.

cheers,

dean

are they 33s on both cars?

sure are

the BFGs on white rims are the normal Pajero/Rodeo/Navara offset and actually rubbed on the draglink of the high steer on the SAS so i had to put my cruiser offset rims on the front so i could drive it.

Itll run the black rims with 35" MTRs. Have to keep the bodylift for the long range fuel tank, but we'll see about the springs, its pretty high, but actually drives pretty well on the road, except for the crazy steering wobble from the unbalanced tyres at the moment.

cheers,

dean.

so its engineered for the 35s not the 33s?

its engineered for the 33"s because that is what was on it and i didnt have the speed, weight ratings for the 35"s. Will get it updated as soon as the new tyres arrive,

and just an update,

it wont be running 35" MTRs, i ordered my new tyres yesterday, 35"x12.5"x15" Maxxis Trepadors, none in NSW but the guys looked after me pretty well

about $30 more per corner, lets hope theyre worth it...

dean

klrevo wrote:its engineered for the 33"s because that is what was on it and i didnt have the speed, weight ratings for the 35"s. Will get it updated as soon as the new tyres arrive,

and just an update,

it wont be running 35" MTRs, i ordered my new tyres yesterday, 35"x12.5"x15" Maxxis Trepadors, none in NSW but the guys looked after me pretty well

about $30 more per corner, lets hope theyre worth it...

dean

I have heard nothing but good things about the Trepadors. Let us know how they go, are you going the radials?

Good to see all is going well.

klrevo wrote:its engineered for the 33"s because that is what was on it and i didnt have the speed, weight ratings for the 35"s. Will get it updated as soon as the new tyres arrive,

and just an update,

it wont be running 35" MTRs, i ordered my new tyres yesterday, 35"x12.5"x15" Maxxis Trepadors, none in NSW but the guys looked after me pretty well

about $30 more per corner, lets hope theyre worth it...

dean

how much did you get them for? im looking for another set of tyres for the GU very soon

ok so the paj got some new boots,

35x12.5x15 Maxxis Trepadors, they look awesome, obviously the bias ones are chunkier again but these look great and exactly what i wanted.

cheers, and enjoy

dean

Damn nice job dean. I so rarely pop my head in here these days that I had to do some back tracking to figure out how Frank's truck ended up in your hands.

Sorry for Frank, but at least it has a real home in NSW now.

Is there anything hard enough left in the wattos these days that will actually give it a proper test!?
Looking forward to bumping into you sometime so I can see this SAS Paj wonder.

Now all it needs is a nice Lexus V8 in it and it will be the perfect Paj. I have seen a couple now done by the mob at hornsby and they are a cool conversion...

Rob

thanks rob,

yeh im definitely hanging out to drive it. ahahha yeh theres definitely still some stuff left in the wattos for the mighty paj. just sitting around waiting for the engineers typist to come back from holidays so she can type up the cert

ahh well, yeh looking forward to what the new paj will bring in the future. I wont be getting rid of it any time soon, and youre more than welcome to come on a run anytime and check out the jabber, just send me a pm sometime youre free.

cheers,

dean.

THE JABBER LIVES
Awesome work klrevo it looks just like it did when Frank had it .
You will have a ball testing the Jabber.
We will have to come up for a track or two one time so I can hear the motor screaming again in the hills (it did sound grouse when Frank stomped the gas).