MQ UTE SHELL ON GQ CHASSIS

[whythef@#!not]

CAN A MQ UTE SHELL GO ON A GQ LWB WAGON CHASSIS?????????????

[CWBYUP]

It should as far as I aware.

Do a search theres a fair bit of info on it.

Nick

[giantracing]

it will bolt on but you will have problems with putting gq guards/bonnet/grill on. you will have to cut and weld a gq front on. plus all your dash mounts from gq and mq are different

[whythef@#!not]

cheers fellas not to worried bout dash as will keep mq dash and rewire it up.

[Patroler]

it will bolt on but you will have problems with putting gq guards/bonnet/grill on. you will have to cut and weld a gq front on. plus all your dash mounts from gq and mq are different

The bonnets the same, gaurds bolt on, but you'll have to take the grill out first then put the gaurds on, remove the lights, sit the new grill in place and use it to work out where the lights will have to sit, then make new holes and plates for the light mounts, its pretty easy.
GQ lights are closer together and lower than MQ lights - roughly 10-15mm in each direction.

Thats assuming you want it to look like a GQ, you may want the wider GQ gaurds to cover the GQ's wider track.

[Sandy Rut]

im putting an early gq cab on my wagon chassis. it had narrow guards but am putting flared guards on it.

did this to fit the headlights


Had to make some holes with the holesaw to fit the blinkers in (not shown).
easy job. the tabs are just 20mm rhs cut in half with a captive nut behind them.

am using gq headlight brackets

they are only tacked on - so please no outers experts reply that the welds wont hold..........

[blackmav]

im putting an early gq cab on my wagon chassis. it had narrow guards but am putting flared guards on it.

Wasn't yours a leaf cab, did you have to mod the inner guards to fit the shocks ?

[Swerve]

I thought ADR's would not allow a older body be installed on a newer chassis.

Or are these being done for comp work ?

[blackmav]

I thought ADR's would not allow a older body be installed on a newer chassis.

X2
My blue slip guy said the same a couple of weeks ago.

[Sandy Rut]

im putting an early gq cab on my wagon chassis. it had narrow guards but am putting flared guards on it.

Wasn't yours a leaf cab, did you have to mod the inner guards to fit the shocks ?

I should have taken a pic - the inner guards were 'smooth' from the inside ie no 'cavity' for the shock to poke up into, but looking from the engine bay, the 'cavities' were there (welded in place). So all you have to do is just cut the inner guard to reveal the 'shock cavities'. Hope you understand what i mean

[Sandy Rut]

I thought ADR's would not allow a older body be installed on a newer chassis.

X2
My blue slip guy said the same a couple of weeks ago.

instead of putting the older cab on the new chassis, but the new chassis under the old cab

tell mr blue slip man that the ute chassis was cracked so you replaced it with this one

[mikesmith]

i am doing this atm. the mq shell will not just bolt onto the chassis, the mounts have to be modified.

i am leaving the mq dash in also. but if u r running a gq gearbox u will need a new speedo or gq one as they have an electronic speedo. the inner guards need to be cut to clear the shock towers.

have not heard of the adrs saying u cant put older body on new chassis if anything i would have thought it would be new body on old chassis not the other way around but oh well.