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FB ute fixer upper, EK van on rotisserie

So with a bit of RAG engineering the front guard is getting there in a ‘Rough As Guts’ kind of fashion.
I’ll finish welding and grind it back tomorrow.

And because my neighbors as spitting the dummy about noise… thank god they are selling and pissing off… I thought I would be respectful and and just do some hammer and dolly work on the guard and see if all of the bolts go in place.

They somewhat do and I now need to think of the bumper bar.

So the original bumper is pretty bent and it will take more time to fix than it will take to remove the bumper of George’s car in the front yard.

Forgive me Blacky but I’ll be cruising with an EK bumper bar for a while.

It’s getting to a point where I’m more or less slapping the panels on and hoping for the best.
Some GMH black on the undersides and as long as there is no rust hanging from them I’ll have to call it job done if I want to be seen driving it at nationals.
Let’s face it it can all be fixed later on if need be.

The apprentice in the parts car is not looking too good... he may need a covid test.

... either that or he's been trying those green Coopers beers again

Cheers,
Harv

Harv wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 8:27 am The apprentice in the parts car is not looking too good... he may need a covid test.

... either that or he's been trying those green Coopers beers again

Cheers,
Harv

Haha Harv that’s actually George, he bought the car new in 1961 and died in the front seat… no one bothered to bury him

Ok so I have been tinkering with a few little job’s inbetween the large ones.

In my hands is my interior light globe holder from the roof.
I lost the little spring some how and now I’m trying to budge it back up so the switch works again.

I threw some big dollars at the repair (not) and pulled a pen apart for the spring and I’m hoping to make it fit.

Can someone please snap me a pic of their interior light so I can where the original spring was positioned please?

You are missing the little fork bizzo - have a look at our old thieving mate Greedybitz' photo on here -


https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/161376215354

Wow, that's a lot of dosh.

pic from google - need a 'stick' in your spring

Blacky wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 7:52 pm You are missing the little fork bizzo - have a look at our old thieving mate Greedybitz' photo on here -


https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/161376215354

Well FeK me he can jam that price up his ring gear.

Looks like I’ll need to throw my Mr Magoo glass on and get all micro with some sheet metal and a file!

1 little fork coming up!

Drew,

There is another guy selling a repair kit on ebay, around $20 dollars.
I'm not sure if it comes with the spring bit ??

Greg

I think that might be Roger Hancock and it is only replacing the Bakelite insulator Greg which goes brittle.

Trip to Dudley’s Drew, and maybe the Bakelite insulator kit.


FB ute fixer upper, EK van on rotisserie

i might have one hopefully i remember to have a look tomorrow, i just pulled the roof lining out of my car and the interior light and none of it is going back in or not any time soon and definitely not the interior light

Clay I think I could make the fork quicker than the trip to Dudley’s will take so ill just give it a crack.

Mick if your interior light is complete just leave it complete mate, no need to strip a small part out and then be holding a light that don’t work.

Will probably only take half hour to make one.