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Zuzana tinting the glass - no one ever noticed the mod to
the quarter lights - they were so rotten I took them out, replaced the
mechanism with a frame of 5mm box section and cut new perspex ones out, I
thought they looked the mutts nuts :-) |
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Daylight and not raining? must have been in the morning on
the way out to work |
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Because the winch mounting were fouled by the front
crossmember I had to use box section under the winch tray rather than
flitch the crossmember and use ultra long bolts. Front chassis rails cut
back to further improve approach angle (about 88 degress) |
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Shiny 4 speed ZF gearbox from Ashcrofts (thanks Dave) this
is an uprated 3.9 unit with crop sprayer internals. If I ever have to work
under a car its guaranteed to hammer down with rain..... :-( |
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Isuzu lump slides into new home, the new heavy duty gearbox
is 15mm longer than a standard Rangie box (due to a longer pump housing)
so the floor brace gets a date with Christine the grinder |
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Another view of the floor brace, Radiator in place, I had it
modded to suit the Isuzu and give a crossflow, also had an electric
thermostat boss put in - all in bargain price of £40 for all the mods
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pig was due to run 2 type R Milemarker winches so thanks to
Alan Byrne of Alfred Murray Ltd I started playing with a method of driving
the pump. After a lot of mocking up and repeated watching of the Ladoga
dvd I thought discretion would be a better idea and went pto (was worried
about belt life in a swamp) The Type R system is the fastest winch setup
and totally waterproof (essential for Ladoga) |
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Inside of the cab looking better for a dose of chromate
black, 6 degree castor corrected arms from QT services mean I can get the
front end together. |
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Front axle is refurbed, I ran Maxidrive halfshafts and drive
flanges, Great Basin 4.75:1 crownwheel and pinions, ARB difflocks front
and rear and modded the UNF axles to run AEU2522 CVs from a 110 defender -
seriously tough driveline and it survived without ANY failures. Word to
the wise though, Maxidrive drive flanges are almost a press fit onto CVs
to we lapped them with warding files so that if we had a breakage the CVs
could be changed without major probs (the warding takes fekkin ages.....) |
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Well we definitely needed a snorkel, Safari snorkels cost
money and they are still only plastic so out with the stainless, the top
portion (aka the "bling bling") is boy racers tailpipe. Thanks
to the lads at Powerflow Exhausts in Basingstoke for the use of the pipe
bender. |
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Not a lot of space for the PTO and pump so more mods to the
floor brace, box section was used to reinforce the inspection hole and a
trapdoor was used to seal it all up. |
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Intercooler from Allisport, lovely workmanship but I later
discovered this was a bad move as thick intercoolers and swamps don't like
each other. The airbox is standard Isuzu with 10cms cut off the bottom |
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BSR stainless braided hosing, intercooler and radiator
brackets made. |
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I Knocked up a tailgate and Vinny made possibly the best
Hi-Lift carrier ever made, on and off in seconds, no rattles and brutally
simple |
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