Rusty EK,s Ute

[Sputzwagon]

You'll have to change your forum name to "NOT Rusty EK".

Scotty.

[Rusty EK]

[vintageholden]

yes.
change it to

NOT SO....rusty...

[Rusty EK]

Change it to something without rust , never want to see rust again.

[EK283]

Hello Hello,

Hows it going down there, any progress ?

Regards Greg

[Rusty EK]

Slowly , cant seem to find time to do anything at the moment , life keeps getting in the way , let me have a look at the photos and see where we were up to .

[Rusty EK]

Can not get photobucket to upload photos at the moment ? , but have got the underside of the car painted and am planing on putting the diff back in ( still got to paint a few bits yet) and weld up the exhaust and reinstall that too over Easter .

Have to sort out a handbrake as well , am planing on running a Jag handbrake cable and modifying that to fit to a HQ handbrake lever mounted on to the tunnel between the seats .

Well thats the plan for the Easter Break

Oh and a fishing trip , the Tuna have showed up down here and am hoping the weather will agree to a trip out to try my luck .

Will load some photos a bit later

[Rusty EK]

OK here is a couple of photos , progress is slow at the moment , cleaning up all these fiddly bits for paint is time consuming .

But am nearly ready to start putting some bits back on for the last time plan is to put everything back under the car and drop it back off the rotisserie and get the front end bolted back on and painted , finish steering and drop the engine back in and fire it up , hah sounds easy

Finished painting gearbox




Painted the wheel arches with stone guard



And finished painting underneath

[John]

Bloody hell
It's looking bloody great

[ek amigo]

You are setting the yardstick pretty high there mate , there is a lot of us waiting to see what comes next , you must have spent a lot of time thinking about it , the attention to detail is something else , thanks for letting us look

[Rusty EK]

Thanks Guys , have been watching your builds also and they are both looking good as well

[Mick Jagger]

thats gonna be a nice solid ute

[V8EK4us]

Just spent an hour or so catching up on you build Chris..............bloody awsome work mate, makes my cutting and welding hand get itchy again! Really appretiate the thought and work that you are putting into this build, love the tail lights too! great to see, keep up the fantastic work

Be great to see this finished and cruisin'.

[Rusty EK]

Thanks Mick

Thanks Gaz , as you can see by the alum heat shields for the oil coolers I have taken some inspiration from your build , still go back and read over it , you will get that cutting and welding hand going again im sure but it sounds like you have been busy in other recreational pursuits by your other post , congratulations.

Cant wait to cruise the thing myself , but will be happy when I can get the engine fired and move it under its own steam .

[Rusty EK]

Got a bit more done over the weekend , but run into a couple of problems , one of the exhausts now hits the shocks , must of moved when I welded it together

And the springs are 30mm too long for the new shocks , will have too get them dropped next week , so have came to a halt until I get that done .