There’s nothing worse

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Re: There’s nothing worse

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Got some work to do
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Re: There’s nothing worse

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Passenger side lower A pillar is the worst of it, also drivers door, both sills and some in the roof
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Bought new sills , cowls and a passenger side floor pan plus the neighbour has a van body that I can grab a couple of donor sections from. Dug this out plus a GTS steering wheel and I have most of an aircon unit to go into it
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Not mucking around there. More work than it looked fro the photos, but aren’t they always…..


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Welcome to my world Blacky :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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FireKraka wrote:Welcome to my world Blacky :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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WA weather conducive to shed work 😊. Chuck on some GTS guards and you have a Sandman Ute 👍
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In the Shed wrote:WA weather conducive to shed work Image. Chuck on some GTS guards and you have a Sandman Ute Image
Sort of - won’t need a beanie that’s for sure ImageImage
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No GTS guards mate - keeping this a stocker pretty much.


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Rare spares panel will sort most of the floor out - hoping the donor bits from next door will sort the pillar base or it is going to be fab time. Image
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Started digging - found what I was expecting to find
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Went and checked the donor car - just as bad nearly but at least it told me what it was meant to look like
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Cut a bit more back to access the whole part
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Made a template out of masking tape
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Thought the other side will most likely be the same so went and opened it up and sure enough-
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Might as well make 2 of these pieces
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Fettled into shape and welded in - forgot to take pics
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I’m not surprised about the cowl vent cover, but the floor and pillar bottom are worse than I expected.


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When i buy a car the rust never scares me, although I would balk at the roof bubbles.

Once the cowl lets go the water just fills the floors so rust it is.

Good your crazy enough to look past these little issues Blacky.

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I paid $3000 for this ute mate - for that sort of money I was not expecting much .... :ebiggrin:
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braver or sillier than me i'd have chucked that away, i actually did not that long ago bought it for parts and thought i was crazy buying it got the parts and sent it to SIMS
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