I ran strips of masking tape along the panel lines each time I slapped a coat filler on it, just to try and keep the body lines as crisp and straight as possible.
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I've just about finished the first round of wet sanding. I got a couple of pin holes in the filler, and I reckon after I touch those up and give it another round of high fill primer it should turn out okay.
The other job I have been working on is the wiring loom. When I stripped the Mouldy Mario, I labelled the loom and then drew a picture of the truck on a piece of 3 ply and then laid out the loom onto the drawing and cable tied it into place. I gave the loom a bath at the time and cleaned up a lot of the connectors. Despite this, rewrapping and retaping the loom and pulling a bunch of connectors apart and cleaning the electrodes proved to be far more time consuming than I had expected.
I stripped the old plastic corrugated sleeves off and replaced it with new stuff and reaped it and used a bit of heat shrink every so often.
More exciting wire pics.
Love your attention to detail. Nice. Keep it up. Well done.
Michael B
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It’s looking good Ben! Keep up the good work!!
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I actually LOL'd when I read the windscreen frame debacle! The rest looks mint. Keep it up man!
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Did Warn supply the black plastic cover w the “W” on it?
G'day Merb, No it was an old one I has sitting around. I'm not sure if I should replace it with a new one or restore the original which has a chrome plugger inner socket, which is kinda ol'school.
Cheers Ben
G'day All, Quick question. Can anyone confirm if I have the heater pipes in the correct way? Cheers, Ben
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Indestructible 47
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Pics are not working for me mate
G'day All, I've been working pretty hard on Mouldy Mario over the last month. The wiring loom is back in place and the dash is buttoned up. back together.
I also got some paint onto a few miscellaneous items. The paint I used was from a new can and I was worried that there would be a visible difference between old and new. The blokes at the paint shop assured me it wouldn't be a problem. I still breathed a sigh of relief when I bolted a couple of bits into place. The last photo is the cover for the fuel breather system. The PSI in my air compressor creeps up and after painting this I noticed it was at 2.5 bar, so it's a bit more orange peely than I would have liked, but it is hidden by the tub so I'll leave it.
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Air conditioning.
The heater box came up alright. I used one of Atlas's rebuild kits and had the heater core cleaned and pressure tested.
I completed the rebuild of the heater box a few years ago, so it was nice to dig it out. Here are a couple of images during disassembly.
Michael B
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Ben Mario is coming together very nicely! It won’t be long before he’s motoring down the tracks. Keep up the good work!!
and some more heater box action shots. I reckon some new foam will make a bit of a difference.
I reckon another decade or two and I'll be going close to turning the key on this bad boy!
Thanks Mick,
I reckon another decade or two and I'll be going close to turning the key on this bad boy!
I peeked a look at my heater core the other day. Looks bout 10 times worse than yours. A little bit of a cleanout might be in order these days off.
