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Yes Colin,
you have an excellent opportunity to weld in that tunnel now - no need for the rails yet - unless you want to take that on as well...... they will make your ute a lot stronger....

Scotty, it is a very sad state of affairs that I must now reveal to the forum I have only been formally educated to year 9 - I left school at 15 and started work..... still with the same employer (well, almost...... they have changed, but I have remained loyal) ......

I have spent the 40 years hence trying to catch up on some of the schooling I probably should have completed...... might get there before I "fall off the perch"......

frats,
Rosco

rosco wrote:Yes Colin,
you have an excellent opportunity to weld in that tunnel now - no need for the rails yet - unless you want to take that on as well...... they will make your ute a lot stronger....

Scotty, it is a very sad state of affairs that I must now reveal to the forum I have only been formally educated to year 9 - I left school at 15 and started work..... still with the same employer (well, almost...... they have changed, but I have remained loyal) ......

I have spent the 40 years hence trying to catch up on some of the schooling I probably should have completed...... might get there before I "fall off the perch"......

frats,
Rosco

Nothing to be ashamed of Rosco, many, many millionares and even billionares in history had little schooling and became successfull people in their time.

A lot of the stuff that gets taught in school nowdays doesn't prepare kids for life in the working world anyway.

yer were gonna weld it in for sure. and nah were not worried about the rails yet.

im 15 and now in year 11. i was thinking of not going bak to school this year and getting a trade becoz school isnt really for me . but we have decided that i should finish year 12 lol

update on whats happenin with the engine

dad sed i could have the hot grey
before

after

and found this lol


soooooooo we have decided to grab this engine and use all the good parts (internals) in this and build it up
(there doesnt seem to be anything done on the worked motors head apart from it being shaved. were thinking of goin the larger valves from a red motor.)
before


after



working progress here


paintin the hr suspension arms( after i spent the weekend useing the wire brush on them )




painted them silver


and my afterschool project i finished today i think it looks beautiful love the idea of changing the colour




ok thankz guys

good job!
thats about how far i got with my grey motor... then i caught the red disease

Good onya colzy, good to see you young fellas doing the same sort of thing us old farts did all those years ago .

Nice work there Colzy...

Dash is beautiful mate, if you get bored and want to do another let me know....

goodluck keeping the silver clean, if you drive it lots!

cheers
NoMAD

good progress

Good stuff Colzy , enjoy that grey for while untill you realise Chevs perform REALY well

NoMAD wrote:Nice work there Colzy...

Dash is beautiful mate, if you get bored and want to do another let me know....

goodluck keeping the silver clean, if you drive it lots!

cheers
NoMAD

mann i was nervous enough doing my own ayy .so i dont know how i would feel doing someone elses dash lol . coz those clips can be a pain if they are old and brittle. and u dont know until u try pulling them bak

nah i know what you mean, i've had mine apart sprayed the backgrounds red, however will be re-doing them a bit different, also put white LED's in for dash lighting...

cheers
NOMAD

good idea keeping the grey, and even better idea keeping on at school. Im 19, i finished yr12 in 2008 but i never did any work so obviously ended up with a mystery mark (below 30).
I'm now back at TAFE re-doing my HSC. Even if you do really well and then decide to do a trade you'll still have it to fall back on.

Cool Colin

thankz guys :):):)

updating on the hr frontend

after hiting it with the wire brush



after the primer


off the gun . no clear yet




will be puting the clear on tommorow probs
thankz guys