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….. but whatever

It’s time for the trailers 100,000 km service - it’s 13 years old now and really beginning to show its age, has done a lot of dirt road miles and has been pretty well sandblasted underneath - didn’t really realise just how bad it was until we stripped it today to be honest.





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Anyhoo - blew it apart ready to go to the sandblaster on Monday, made a shopping list of new lights, bushes, U bolts, brakes, etc ready for when it comes back






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Looking at that surface rust, I recommend painting with something like Phoenix Paints Metalfix. Will save a lot of work getting bare metal.


FB ute fixer upper, EK van on rotisserie

Bit I see you are going yo do it propply.


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Errol62 wrote: Sat Aug 23, 2025 8:55 pm Looking at that surface rust, I recommend painting with something like Phoenix Paints Metalfix. Will save a lot of work getting bare metal.


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I actually went and bought some metalfix and was going to do exactly that - but now its getting blasted and epoxy primed and topcoated with the good stuff

Damn, this thing will end up mine-spec

Cheers,
Harv

Hey Blacky did you want Keith to paint it for you I did mention it to him.

FireKraka wrote: Sun Aug 24, 2025 9:00 am Hey Blacky did you want Keith to paint it for you I did mention it to him.

No mate this will be industrial spec - bomb it on

I was thinking about the other trailer for Keith to paint if he was interested ??

Very nice


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Well, the hard work is done - by someone else for a change

You don’t realise how knocked around something is until it’s covered in shiny paint


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Mick wrote: Sun Aug 24, 2025 9:55 pm 537937318_10239200833219580_518146753074069219_n.jpg

The penny just dropped - this is your new project Mick ?? What running gear ? is this the one that used to be white and owned by some bloke on the forum YEARS ago ???

yeah slightly off topic yeah it was a price i couldn't resist trying to sort steering out, nah not the white one this was built about 20 years ago that i know of it's been red oxide, flat purple, flat black and the current blue has a custom front that i'm trying to figure a grill for as the one in it was a shocker

Haven't seen that one before - could you fit an FE grille in there ???

You're spot on - that existing one leaves a bit to be desired

you've possibly seen it in purple i had seen it numerous times on facebook in purple on different pages penny didn't drop till after i bought it as the grill opening has been changed
i've thought FE grill but need to find a really cheap one to see if i can make it fit, the curve would be the tricky part, i've cut up an old EK grill i don't mind with a bit of fiddling and also have the main cross centre section from a HR grill to try the floating centre section, the indicators and park lights are going also