Bluebird to `GruntY

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Die seats en wiele is awesome ! kannie wag om die ding aanmekaar te sien nie !
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Ron&Gill wrote:As jy nou daai mooi seats direk op die seat runners terug sit, dan sal jy sien hulle sit skeef. As jy aan die regterkant n 44mmX22mm stuk meranti van voor tot agter onder die sitplek monteer, dan's hy mooi reggop. Dis maar n ou Beamish ding daai.

Ek dink ek het daai ICH's verkoop aan Renier, hy't so n siek geel buggy gehad wat ons "Hepatitis D" (vir "drank") genoem het... :lol:
Ek het so agter gekom. Na baie ure se in en flippen uit... Ekt amper op gegee toe vra ek maar vir iemand wat ken, en hulle stel toe voor ek sit n spacer of n ding daar in, het so gemaak en hy sit nou BAIE mooi reguit.
splitfan wrote:Die seats en wiele is awesome ! kannie wag om die ding aanmekaar te sien nie !
Die seats is die ding waarna ek die meeste uit gesien het, om eerlik te wees. Ekt dit eerste terug gekry voor ons nog klaar was met die bakwerk se skuur, my gat het so gebrand om dit in te sit. Dit het net daar in die kamer gestaan en vir my staar...
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... and so we started with the biggest nightmare and something I would never have done on my own, the wiring. This took place over a period of about 2 week, could only work in the evenings, as it was done at a friends house.

So it began, the greatest shitstorm of this build...

But 1st, 4 pictures of headlights installed, new flicker lights, body on pan rear view and some wiring to the engine...

Headlights
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Flicker lights
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Rear view
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Engine wiring
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General wiring.................

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Not a lot of photos here, mostly me lending some moral support and driving to the nearest Midas/Autoelec place to buy supplied (fuses, terminals, flicker unit, relays etc)

We even installed a boost gauge and pumped some air into it for the fun of it... bored in our break :)

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What a mess
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Image of the centre console. Dropped the volt meter for a ref counter

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More messyness

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Even Jaco (little bro) sitting and doing nothing...

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Some supplies & tools

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Coming together nicely

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Neatened underneath the tank area

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Doing headlight wiring

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MOAR!!!!

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Newly rubberised dipped old tank, no more rust, installed

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Some neatening up

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Just before we completed it with some slinky wrap. Relays valcro'd and fusebox & connector block nicely installed under the dash.

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It was time for us to take it back home to get the bonnet on and the rest of the assembly going...
A-framing it back. Was contemplating driving it home, sitting flat on the pan, it was only 3km's away, but dashboard was too loose.

Wiring done! :hangloose: wish it took me the same time as it did writing up this post... a few headaches and swear words later...

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1st complete view of the body on PAN with wiring done.

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... we fitted the bonnet just to see how it sits over the petrol tank as it's been moved slightly since the last position before it got put in place with some nuts&bolts

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We continued to drill holes in the body for the rollcage

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1 hole... done

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More PICTARS to continue a bit later... :finger4u:
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Ek is mal oor jou seats! Die blou piping en stitching lyk briljant
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Dit lyk fantasmagories! Respek! :hangloose:

Ps watter grootte was die agterbande wat die buggy opgehad het?
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dit lyk baie goed, kan darm die verskul sien wanneer 'n painter sy job ken teen oor 'n tuis job met iemand wat nog leer, daai paint is 10/10.
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Jis julle ouens wikkel - dit lyk fantasties! Laat my terugverlang na my projek...
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Pine wrote:Jis julle ouens wikkel - dit lyk fantasties! Laat my terugverlang na my projek...
begin 'n nuwe :lol: :lol:
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piesang wrote:
Pine wrote:Jis julle ouens wikkel - dit lyk fantasties! Laat my terugverlang na my projek...
begin 'n nuwe :lol: :lol:
Daar is 1 wat al lank wag !!!!
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Pine wrote:Jis julle ouens wikkel - dit lyk fantasties! Laat my terugverlang na my projek...
Dit was n baie lekker projek, maar dit gaan bietjie meer convincing benodig om vir my sommer gou weer so iets aan te pak :) Dalk in so 3 maande se tyd :TIC:
piesang wrote:dit lyk baie goed, kan darm die verskul sien wanneer 'n painter sy job ken teen oor 'n tuis job met iemand wat nog leer, daai paint is 10/10.
Baie dankie. Ja, dit is hoekom ek maar die extra paar cent uit gehaal het, en oordat ek nie juis die regte "tools" gehad het vir die job nie.
Loopy wrote:Dit lyk fantasmagories! Respek! :hangloose:

Ps watter grootte was die agterbande wat die buggy opgehad het?
Die size op die vorige bande was 295/50/15's BFGoodrich Radial T/A
arnocill wrote:Ek is mal oor jou seats! Die blou piping en stitching lyk briljant
:drunks: Dit het mooier uitgekom as wat ek gedink het dit sou :mrgreen:

Besig om nog so paar fotos te upload, sal binnekort die volgende post maak!
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Quick update.

We continued to install the cage bar, 1 seat (this is what Ron spoke about, seat hanging skew...) and the back plate where the number plate attaches to. It got dark quick, so we had to move...

It stood like that for about 3 days and I finally had time to work on it again. We needed to tighten the rear bumper as it was only tightened at the shocks and with 2 bolts at the very end of the bars (bottom side). We needed to drill some holes through the joining plate between the 2 arms of the bar (bottom side). Armed with a drill and some very blunt steel drill bits we proceeded. It was a F@CKING nightmare. Bending one, breaking the other, bits of drillbits lying all over the show.

Being almost 9 in the evening, no Midas/Builders or any other hardware shop were open so we continued with this stupid stupid SH!T. At last, after almost an hour and a half or ear deafening sound coming from a blunt drillbits, we got the holes through and bolts tightened. This bumper was not going ANYWHERE.

Some photos.

Admiring the cage bar

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We proceeded with the seat passenger seat, notice how it's hanging to the left (facing straight on) This was fixed by a spacer...

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The next day, seat still hanging, I wished for it to be straight, but seems like these types of wishes never come true...

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We installed the backplate with the old WHITE hinges and pulled it on the ramps to proceed with the bumper tightening.

Unable to get black ones, anyone know of a place? Will take a close up pic of it and attach soon.

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The silhouette of that RED beetle giving me some inspiration to work in the night :/ suuuuurrreeeeeee.....

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And before we parked it for the night, we tested the lights... TA DA!!!

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More photos to come. Enjoy
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hennels wrote:
piesang wrote:dit lyk baie goed, kan darm die verskul sien wanneer 'n painter sy job ken teen oor 'n tuis job met iemand wat nog leer, daai paint is 10/10.
Baie dankie. Ja, dit is hoekom ek maar die extra paar cent uit gehaal het, en oordat ek nie juis die regte "tools" gehad het vir die job nie.
vir my het dit weer gegaan oor dit self te doen en al is dit nie perfek nie, het ek baie geleer en sal kyk en hom volgend jaar heeltemal strip en weer oordoen met beter 'tools'
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So the project stood for around 4 days, till weekend, where I could finish it, and was it a fun filled 2 days.

We started with fastening the wind shield. The wind shield housing was also epoxied black and the window install and seal we did ourselves. Came out nicely. So now I had a problem, before we could seal the body/wind shield gap, I needed the metal strip also black:

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Kleinboet thinks he's the only 1 that can stand around and do nothing, so I showed him how...

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Christo hard at work:

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Once the wind shield were installed, we fastened the bonnet so that it can be sealed too:

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We set off covering the body for the rattlecan gloss black we would be putting on the silver strip of metal.

Primered up...
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Let it dry for some time and black to follow:

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After 3 or 4 black coats we let it dry and started on the sidepanels. The U-Bolts tightening the cage bar were sticking out too far pushing the sidepanels away, it had to be cut down to size.

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And right hand side DONE:

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We continued with the same procedure on the left and got it on chop-chop, with a few "baie lelike woorde" in between.

We needed to take the seat out for the get panel on, nightmare :(
Both panels installed and the rattle can paint has dried:

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We continued to install the 2 seats and admired our work, some more than others...

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With the panels on, seats in, wind shield painted (not yet sealed to body) we proceeded with the finer details, STICKERS:

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Notice, no hubcaps on the back wheels :oops: We could not get it on initially and just left it ... LOL :finger4u:

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We played around a bit with locations mostly to show the wife, as she also needed a say in this, RIGHT??? :flash:

nope
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Finally got the right spot
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We proceeded with the sticking thereof:

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Came out quite NICE
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I had 2 of these made and struggled to find a nice place to put it, we decided with this:

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We took off the back wheels to get those hubs on, after a NICE polish. Due to the epoxy on the rims, the hubs didn't fit so well so we had to moer them in. Took some sunlight liquid and rubbed it on the side of the caps and took a moerse hammer... That'll teach ya (no pics of this :cry: )

Hubs in

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Wheels back on and tightened with new wheel nuts.

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And finally, ladies & gentleman, the finished product (no wipers, 1st needed to seal wind shield)

Sexy backside
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Inside (handbreak lever to be replace SOOOOON)
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Front
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and 1 with me (hennie)
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The day hereafter we sealed the wind shield to body (bad pictures):
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Hoop julle manne het dit geniet om saam te lees, soos wat ek dit geniet het om dit te "her-bou"
Ek sal nog so paar photos opsit van ons Sondag run.
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Good job ! the buggy looks awesome !
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