Clay’s Wedgewood Blue FB Ute

[Errol62]

Spoke to Luke? At Sonic Injection to secure a set of X2 header flanges. Very good to deal with as well.

time will tell...

Okaayy?!

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[Errol62]

Looking at this shot, realised oh doh, should ha splashed the pendant pedals with the clinker while I had it out. Didn’t think of it.


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[Errol62]

Called in on Dudley finally and got a pair of the early exhaust flanges for my twin headers.

Started in on the retractable mounts. For one reason and another I decided to fit them to the B pillars, mainly just seems tidier. I wasn’t really happy about having the lower attachments at right angles to direction of travel and imposing shear force in impact situation, god forbid.

Mocked up



Drilled, cut and bent to find fresh mud in one side and dry loam in the other. Cleaned and dried and poured and brushed ranex. On the wet passenger side the ranex drained through to the rear quarter, explaining where the water had come from. Driver side seemed to hold the fluid. When dry I’ll pour a tad of fish oil in there and let it all sit as long as I can before I close it up.

Weld through primed the faces of the plates ready to go inside against the shut panel.


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[gpi]

did you ask the seatbelt mob about this before you mounted them and test fitted the seat?

[Errol62]

Test fitted the seat and they fit either way no doubt about that. Seatbelt Solutions weren't really interested in fitting details. I am confident my setup will function as intended. No shear force on mount and duplicates factory type setup.

Seat belt solutions have done a great job for a price comparable to Hemco but they go further in reusing original buckles, and the extractors etc are Hemco anyway.

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[Errol62]

Had to massage this bit to allow the reels to fit
My main concern is singeing the paint on the door jamb when I weld it up, oh and setting fire to the fisholene I intend to put in before I weld it up.


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[FireKraka]

Hi Clay, mate there is not much room between the side of the seat and the B pillar, looks good mate but I hope that your seat will go back with the reels in place this was the main reason I fitted mine behind the seat mate.

Neil

[Errol62]

You got me a bit worried Neil so went aznd measured. I need at least 85mm for the Hemco reel with stepped spacers washer. Took this photo earlier and looks like I've got more like 100mm so not too worried yet.....

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[Errol62]

Fisholene going in every crevice and running out onto the shed floor by gum!

Passenger b pillar oil flowed back along the top of the sill.
Squirted more down between wheel arch and quarter panels and atop driver rear sill.

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[EK283]

Test fitted the seat and they fit either way no doubt about that. Seatbelt Solutions weren't really interested in fitting details. I am confident my setup will function as intended. No shear force on mount and duplicates factory type setup.

Seat belt solutions have done a great job for a price comparable to Hemco but they go further in reusing original buckles, and the extractors etc are Hemco anyway.

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Hi Clay

Put my seat belts in today and was wondering when you say no shear force are you including the lap bracket ? The way mine mount in the sedan has the lap part of the belt bracket bolted with the same bolt. Probably have to post a photo to explain what I mean.

Actually ignore what i said yours mounts identical to mine.

Greg

[Errol62]

Greg,
Yes it is the lap bracket I’m referring to. Mounting on the pillar orientates the lap bracket in the direction of potential force as intended in the bracket design, so that is how I decided to go, rather than mount at right angles on rear cab wall.
Cheers
Clay


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[Errol62]

Started on the sound deadener anti drum insulation call it what you will.
I’ve had this stuff sitting in the shed over a year and hasn’t melted so should be okay.


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[Errol62]

Some pics

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[Harv]

Looks good. You're a patient man to insulate between the rear firewall swages... I would have been lazy and rolled-in one sheet over the top.

What made you stop running the insulation down to the floor on the rear firewall? Sheet width? I found out the hard way that you can't see most of the firewall with the seat in place... but you can really see the bottom 8" or so. I painted Grace's ute satin black to make that area "disappear".

Cheers,
Harv

[Errol62]

Sheet length Harv, you guessed it. Seems to work well after wax and grease remover and heating the panel with gun. Using cork sanding block edges as a squeegee. Used seven sheets. I figure the roof is key. Next will be lower firewall and trans hump. Bit hesitant about the horizontal floor sections due to inevitable moisture ingress. I may just put some loose material down. Have some heavy sisalation. This stuff is heavy and I don’t want to get carried away with it. They say that minimum 65% coverage is most effective in sound and vibration reduction.


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