Gimme 5 years

[62ekute]

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the rusty corner of the old bonnet decided to have another go at taking bark off the top of my head yesterday

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so I bolted up the spare bonnet this morning

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[62ekute]

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[Errol62]

Looking good. Forgiving matte?

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[62ekute]

Looking good. Forgiving matte?

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yep, there's some hours in there but not enough for show standard

[Blacky]

You better change the name of this thread to “gimme 1 year “

[FireKraka]

Your Ute is really coming along fast 62 I'm with Blacky you will have it finished in no time.
Neil

[Harv]

finished assembling and hanging the good doors - pinched some bits off the original doors - cut a hole for a lock on the driver's door

Like this?


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Cheers,
Harv

[62ekute]

Your Ute is really coming along fast 62 I'm with Blacky you will have it finished in no time.
Neil

mmm yeah, bodywork is coming along - but there's plenty of other stuff as well - and it depends how often I can get out there.

I bought the ute in May 2019 (when I joined the forum) but was still working on the Sprinter...then we went up to Qld via the coast for winter ... came home for a week or so and headed off north again via Lightning Ridge etc... came back for a bit and then went to Tassie while it was warm

So I didn't get to start on it until April 2020 (when I started the thread) ... got a couple of months in before it got cold then went north to the Daintree for winter ... been back at it for a few months - missus is distracted doing a sailing course - once that's finished I'm sure my EK time will reduce again

but I'll get early beers

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Patrick

[Errol62]

You're living the life of Riley mate

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shortened the tailpipe so I can open the tailgate all the way

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Patrick

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bolted on the remaining painted bits

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Patrick

[Errol62]

Oh yeah


FB ute fixer upper, EK van on rotisserie

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I put some passable (for me) chrome on the front ... haven't collected all the EK bits yet (for some reason it had some FB stuff on it when I got it)

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Patrick

[62ekute]

Nice to be doing some lightweight tinkering ...

Connected up the wiring for the headlights, front parking/indicators and horn - (some new globes and cleaned up connections) - all good.

Worked on the ute tray drain tubes (I'd siliconed the hose connection before but missed some perished hose) - I'd drilled an additional drain hole to check and when I pulled the bung out after a storm the sub-floor was wet (I want the tray waterproof when I don't have the tonneau on) ... so I drilled the old bits out, flared some copper tube and dropped that in (and re-waterproofed the area)

Put on the windscreen wipers - got the windscreen nice and wet and slippery to find the actual sweep and park position - which is a bit different to to when the windscreen was dry.

Installed some washer jets - the replacement bonnet didn't have them so I toyed with the idea of getting rid of the washer bottle (missus said no)

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btw...I see that all my spare wipers are passenger side - so if someone wants to do a swap for a drivers side let me know

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Patrick