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First thing is to strip out all the old crap, Ladoga involve
a lot of DEEP wading so the V8 was always going to come out to be replaced
with an Isuzu 2.8 turbo diesel |
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Wings off show the inner wings to be rotten, after thinking
about cutting down conventional wings to achieve the bullnose I settled on
a tree ramming set up |
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Outriggers went on for the sills and the roll cage |
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Just to make a change from working in the rain... it snowed
so I tool refuge in the garage and cut the bonnet down and Tig welded it
back together |
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Plenty of whitemarker, measure carefully this is a tricky
thing to do |
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The result of a couple of hours of Tig, pulled the V8 out,
shame really, it was the best running V8 I'd heard for ages |
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Plenty of surface rust and factory underseal to remove. |
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Wire brush and Christine the Grinder make a good job or
removing the crap and re-distributing it on my face, doors get a bit of a
fettle and the bonnet gets a few vent holes |
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Tiny garage also doubles up as my spray shop, the neighbours
hate me and I'm trying to keep the peace by spraying when they are asleep,
lay the first coat on a 2am and then another at 4am - its tough when you
have to go to work at 8 :-( |
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The front end was designed to fend off trees and still allow
easy engine removal, it worked really well, total panel damage was one 50p
sized dent, the ram bars have to sit half in and half out of the bonnet,
set a height gauge on a datum to get it all equal height. |
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Daylight for once, spars going in for the inner wheel
arches, this is my preferred intercooler (SAAB) but I was lured by the
dark side and went and bought an aftermarket one (mistake) the winch tray
was fabbed up too. |
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I set the headlights back behind the line of the ram bars,
held steady buy some 14mm 3mm wall tube - bonnet painted. Front roll hoop
in place, roof roll bar fabbed up, inner roll hoop in place |
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you can see how the bonnet is protected, roof now painted.
The hardest thing was making the tubes that run through the roof to join
the roof tube to the inner roll cage, almost a day of failure to make the
first and once I had a pattern the second took 5 mins :-) |
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welded collars to the back of the winch tray and put lifting
eyes in - they are greased and spin easily, Zuzana slaps the waxoyl on all
over |
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