Builds BJ 45 restoration Greece

[Shown]

I also painted and installed the front signal lights. These are the hella 2ba 003 022-021 lights. Their frame was black, but I wanted to look like the rest of the anthracite grey parts... The factory ones were damaged and i liked more the look of the old round lights than the square i owned...

 

[Shown]

The last thing i have done in bed is to begin to shape the wheel arches... That is a difficult one because of the 2mm thickness of the metal sheet.

 

[Chungas Revenge]

One off my favorite builds. What you have accomplished so far in an open shed is noteworthy. Well done.

 

[Shown]

One off my favorite builds. What you have accomplished so far in an open shed is noteworthy. Well done.

Thank you a lot my friend...

 

[Shown]

The wheel arches were cut and put in place. The reason i formed them before painting the bed frame is not to damage the paint later.

 

[Shown]

After that i was thinking how to joint the gap between the two pieces of each arch. At first i thought using a proper body sealant would be fine and easy. But at the end I decided to follow the hard path by welding it.

 

[Shown]

The result was way better than I thought it would be. And because of damage of the galvanised surface at the welding spots, the arches were coated with zinc plate. (Cold galvanised)

 

[Shown]

Some progress from the rear end of the bed...

 

[Shown]

And...

 

[Shown]

I ordered these two pieces of galvanised sheets for the walls next to the door...

 

[Shown]

After the match of the parts, they were disassembled and cleaned for the paint job...

 

[Shown]

Paint and attached on its final place...

 

[Shown]

One thing i did before getting the bed frame on the chassis was to build those corners for the bed in order to be ready for assembly with all the holes drilled...

 

[Shown]

I also cut the fender shape from the bed sides. To do that i made a carton from the original bed sides and was easy to find were to cut. The only thing I had to calculate was the little difference between the high of the original frame and mine. Mine is sitting 1,5cm higher than the original so I had to cut 1,5cm lower to have the same distance from the wheel...

 

[Shown]

Between the bed frame and the chassis i put some rubber spacers. Not only on the bolt attachments. Also at the other spots as it was on the factory bed. I drilled them with self drilled bolts to stabilise them.

 

[Shown]

Today i started painting the bed panels with primer...

 

[Shown]

Last for today. I bought leather for making the lever boots and the panels. I started by making the transfer lever boot to find out if it is easy to make it. My mother knows to sew and has a sewing machine, so she helped with this part.

 

[Shown]

I was thinking hard to find a way for the top of the boot to look nice... I came up with this idea and the result is the most satisfying thing I have done so far for my bj...

 

[Greek Cruiserhead]

So far so good!
Like the attention to detail!

 

[Shown]

So far so good!
Like the attention to detail!

Thanks my friend cruiserhead... I think the details are more important and give character to our vehicles....