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HOW TO DO A BODY LIFT - SCREWY AND OZY1 SYLE!!!

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HOW TO DO A BODY LIFT - SCREWY AND OZY1 SYLE!!!

Post by Screwy »

We bought this rig for parts use only/
It is a LWB L28 Petrol MK Patrol, late 84'.
Has power steer, aircon, motor is siezed. Panels OK, Rust in body, complete interior, engine bay, driveline, suspension etc. Divorced Transfer.

Shawn and i Picked it up and towed it the 2 streets away from my place it was on Monday night last week. We Dumped it down the back of my place till friday morning when we both could get a day off.

We started at 7.30, had an hour and a half break at lunch, then kept going and got it all packed up by 9pm. Just the 2 of us.

The main tools we used:

- Rattle Gun
- 9 Inch Angle Grinder
- Big Farker Hammer
- Sockets, screwdrivers
- And a Back Hoe along with its Big ass Scoop for compacting things neat :twisted:

Here are the pics :cool:
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After the First 1-2 Hours :cool:
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Post by Screwy »

The Interior was intake with seats galor and loads of crap and glass and rubbish in there before u ask......

Next We disconnected everything very hurridly as we didnt need to use half of it again, ripped the body bolts off, and cut the side B pillar and cut the rear window out of its home.

Then we did the funnest bit of the day :twisted: :armsup:
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Post by Screwy »

:armsup:
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Post by Screwy »

:lol:
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Post by Screwy »

Once Lifted I drove off and dumped the body around the front of the house narroly avoiding a couple of trees and the pump house......................... Forgetting that the car is far wider than the backhoe and the road..... :oops:
Its all good i only hit a few branches :lol:

Heres some pics of the good parts.
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Post by Screwy »

We Then Striped the chassis apart, dumped the motor for Giffo to come and get later for parts, and lifted the box, shafts and divorced transfer out, and droped the fuel tank.

The we used that big angle grinder :twisted: again and cut the chassis into a coupla parts.
Shawn ( ozy1 ) wanted the front steering, spings and diff etc. so we just cut behind the main cross member and he took the whole front end minus the power steer which is mine ;)
The other 2 sections of chassic ended up dumped and in the trailer with the rest of the crap left over :P

KINGY:

Have a look at the pic labelled " Scraps ", There is a tube cross member there for strength on the LWB just behind where the transfer case sits and This cross member is exactly the way the trackbar crossmembers are biult. :!:

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Post by Screwy »

Basically after the chassis was striped and cut and out of the way i went and got the body, we then cut the engine bay off, then the roof and sides, then removed the windscreen and put a cut down the middle and folded it over and used the backhoes large scoop and slamed it down on the pile of metal a few times till it was relitevily flat and droped it all in the trailer. :twisted: :twisted: THAT WAS FUN!!!! :lol:

Then we took our parts a seperate ways, put a pile of left over good bits aside for Giffo to nab and called it a night after a long cleanup.......

Not a bad effort aye Shawn? ;)

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Post by ozy1 »

mate, it was a good effort i tell ya, would recomend evryone doing what we did and spend 12 hours having a ball, if the nut/bolt doesnt move grind it, if a panel is in the way, hit it, if ya wanna change spark plugs, it would be easier this way!!!! :rofl:
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it's like full metal challenge :armsup:
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Post by 2car »

A mercy killing :D
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Post by Screwy »

ozy1 wrote:mate, it was a good effort i tell ya, would recomend evryone doing what we did and spend 12 hours having a ball, if the nut/bolt doesnt move grind it, if a panel is in the way, hit it, if ya wanna change spark plugs, it would be easier this way!!!! :rofl:



If a driverside rear door doesnt open to get it off, Get inside and keep kicking it and kicking it till ya give up and get a 8 foot long crow bar and bent that prick of a thing and force the lock to snap :cool: :D :armsup:
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cut the crossmember out .... ( take some chassis with it ) and send it on down :D

Looks like fun ..... pity you didnt have a yota handy for more carnage :twisted:
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Post by chimpboy »

Goddamn I really wanna do this one day, even if there are no parts I want on the sacrificial vehicle.

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Post by pegasus »

A mate and I once chopped an old fairlane in half with an axe (except for some harder re-enforcing type bits on chassis)

That was fun, we didn't like the axe either....

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Post by dark matter »

You guys would make great fireman!! :D Now their tools would make this job even easier.
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Post by Going_up »

ow, i wanna break stuff too...
let me know next time you do somthing like that...
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Post by RB zook »

god dam its fun being destructive :D
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