new piggie on the block

[OinkOinker]

Small development, started a little bit of work on the pig the other day, started chipping some rust from the roof's rain gutters on the drivers side (right hand side in my neck of the woods) haven't got pics of this yet.

but i did also start to get the paint 'looking' a little better for now, grabbed some 600 wet n dry and cut n polish to the paint rear, i took a pic at the halfway point so you can see the difference, not much so far but its progress...

 

[fjdaveinoz]

Looks like its coming along nice. I love that colour. Id say she was an ex government fleet vehicle. They were generally repainted back to standard before going off to auction. Possibly owned by the firebrigade, or the PMG (the old Aust. Post) as their vehicles were red. It would be interesting to see what colour it is under the red. My guess - Brown.
Are you keeping the bullbar?

Dave

 

[nuclearlemon]

interesting info on the paint. wonder how many rigs down under are red under brown.

 

[OinkOinker]

Looks like its coming along nice. I love that colour. Id say she was an ex government fleet vehicle. They were generally repainted back to standard before going off to auction. Possibly owned by the firebrigade, or the PMG (the old Aust. Post) as their vehicles were red. It would be interesting to see what colour it is under the red. My guess - Brown.
Are you keeping the bullbar?

Dave

funny you shoudl say that, cos when looking at it in a few places it seemed the red was under the current colour, but over in other places??? this makes sense now... so you recon it was more than likely the terrible (but kinda loveable) colour it is now?

 

[OinkOinker]

not keeping the bumper in that particular form. getting a winch for her in the future, not sure if its the distant future or even more, but for now i think im going to cut it back to a small stockish looking unit? ideas comments welcome

 

[OinkOinker]

it has begun!

hey guys, as mentioned earlier i have started to nock out some of the rust out of the roof well i got back to this the last few days AND i got pics of my travels for your visual pleasure.

these are all of the front right rain gutter that runs down the windshield.






this scared me at first, but after looking at it and thinking about it, i should be able to get away with cutting an 'L' shape around the bottom courner and replacing it, dont think there is any curve to it?? keep you posted


would there be any adverse effects to removing the rain gutter?? the only problem i can see presenting itself is is when it is raining the rain may drip into the Pig if the window is open even a little?? another option i was entertaining is removing the gutter and trying to bend up a replacement?? im thinking that way as patching it will be very visible there?


Ps tell me if the pic size is ok or if i should resize it??? thanks guys

 

[OinkOinker]

few more, sorry that there not in any super organised order but at least there's something to look at






might bump up the resolution when taking pics next time, those first 2 were a bit slack sorry guys

 

[OinkOinker]

this should be connected??

hey guys upon removing the rust on my Left rear courner of the roof i found this.... looking at it im thinking it was once a solid section?? can anyone confirm this??







im going to start a thread in reguards to a few options/ideas i have come up with, so wont ask too many Q's here

 

[OinkOinker]

fwee more pics of the rear courner on the left but both sides are pretty dead

 

[OinkOinker]

rear rain gutters





i ended up cutting the rain gutter out completly, have a few before pics but they're too big will try resize them and post soon.

 

[fjdaveinoz]

Big job, lots of fun.
In responce to your earlier remarks. Looks like it was certainly brown white from factory, painted red by a fleet owner then back to brown white before sale. I can see the brown in your roof pictures where it has been incorrectly painted white. Im a big fan of the brown white combo, so ugly, but looks tough!
every pig I have looked at locally has the same rust on the lower windscreen frame. The body seems to flex a lot in this area, those that havent been rusted were cracked right through.
I did see one a few weeks ago without rain gutters, didnt seem to have any problems other than it looked a bit gay. ( was actually offered it and a 45 series for 600 bucks, the pig had a PTO winch and disc brakes, I had no way to get it home, and it went to the scrapper that afternoon. )
The roof rot is very typical of our aussie pigs. I have NEVER seen one with it. Our old pig had no rust anywhere else at all, yet the roof was stuffed. Cant work out why.

Rarespares were doing 60 series replacement gutter sections. I wonder if these will fit onto a pig somehow. They had the gutter, and about 2 inches of roof section. would solve all your problems if they fitted.
I just went through all my old pic files, seen where I had pics of your rig saved from when it was listed for sale. Its all very inspiring. Just need to find someone that will swap my 45 series for a pig.

dave

 

[jimhendrixx]

WOW, lots-0-rust and lots-0-work.

good luck brother!

 

[Lucy_FJ55]

Nice job uncovering all that rust! Yep, many pigs rust in the same places, unfortunately. Keep us posted with all of your progress. Rare Spares still has some replacement sheet metal still available for our pigs, but I have not seen any gutter/roof sections sold by them. If you speak with them and they do have some roof/gutter panels, please be sure to share the info with the rest of us here. Many of us have the same rust issues...

 

[OinkOinker]

i been a bit slack

ok so i have been super slack lately with updating , cos it all seems small and insignificant to me but hey ill try be a little more diligent . doesnt help that i have lost the internet at home (where all my pics are) so i have been lurking online at work on nightshift. but a few little things i have done:
-I pulled off the front bull bar and the side steps for one, it looks a whole lot better with just those little things done
- made some tow hitches for the front out of 16mm (i think thats 5/8") plate and 'found' a few 19mm bow shackles at work to suit
- cut some of the rust out of the floor on the drivers side, and found a krap load of rust on the inside of the rockers, thinking sliders are the go now. got a few ideas here i might start a new thread with them and see what others think
- pulled the floor mats out, wire brushed the floors and painted in rattle can primer to prevent surface rust.


i also picked up a 4 15x7 or 8" black sunrasier rims with a set of 31" TSL's at a local garage sale (??yard sale??) for $50. tyres are stuffed but the rims are sweet. i also started the recovery equipment collection with a 4tonne exhaust jack and a few 9 tonne snatch straps.

gettin the internet back at home soon so ill dump a few more pics on when i can

 

[OinkOinker]

im not dead just lazy...

hey guys its well and truely time to post some more pics and let you guys know where im at

these pics are of the right hand foot well. not too bad actually body mount is still pretty intact. just the floor itself.

first is the hole i cut to remove the rut back to clean, weldable metal.


second is of my method of holding the new patch in place and flush as i welded it. what methods did u guys use? i was not sure how to do this....


and finally the slow tedious task of tacking it in place.

 

[OinkOinker]

some more rust repairs.... (how many times will i say that tatement by the end of this ) this time the left rear door.

the rust that i exposed with the flap disc.


then the second is the hole i cut, tried to keep the edges as straight as possible so the patch was easier to make, this a good idea?? or is it just do what works for you??


then the first of the 2 patches sitting in its final location

 

[OinkOinker]

more rust.... this time the right rear roof rine rust.

before


during


new patch, just sitting there, not yet finely shaped to fit.

 

[OinkOinker]

i dont have any pics yet but i also bought a H (3.6L not the 4.0l 2H) diesel to go into the "Hazard Box" as i have now coined her/it. wil need to take some more pics. last few days have been prepping to rempoe the 2F, which is a bit of a shame as it sounds like a sewing machine... but i will use that in another cruiser i recently purchased. what else...

dog park fence pushed over

this is about 3" lower then "high water"

12hrs later same park, looking at the park from the same spot as the above pic.




few none cruiser related dramas. we had monster rain storm here in june that put a few inches of water thru the bottom level om y house... here is a few pics of the local park for a bit of an idea. mum passed away in may so have had to try and sell all her stuff and what not. found a wall down stairs had termites/white ants al thru it so had to demolish and spary that area. been happening here i can tell you that. we even had a dust storm the other day, never had one quite like it. were told to stay indoors because of how thick it was, red skies and choking dust, yet i again didnt take any pics... silly boy. haha end of the non-cruiser related stuff... ill get some more pics os stuff i have done the next few days and post up some more. thanks for reading..

 

[fjdaveinoz]

Sorry to hear about all the bad news you have been having mate. Not good.
We got the dust storm too. We got rain with it, which turned all our tank water to mud! It stained everything.

Seems the rust repairs are coming along nicely.

Just a thought on your H motor swap.

Go and drive a 45 with a H motor in it before commiting to it.
They are a good strong motor, but as slow as a wet week. Getting to 85-90 kmh takes about and hour and would be flat out at full noise. (I know a bloke who do it and just wished he kept the 2F and put it on gas) If I were going to go to all the effort to put a diesel in id go straight to a 2H. just my .02 to take or leave.

Cant wait to see more pics

Dave

 

[OinkOinker]

pulling the heart

this is a few pics of me starting the removal process,

first pic is of me and my super clean buddy (or apprentice as we called him for this project) he left at the end of the night that clean too. some needs to bag and tag the stuff that gets pulled off

me "hard at work"

last is a pic of my beer, the boys thought it was funny to label my beer. i was labeling everything with almost a full sentance describing what the item was and where/what it bolted to.

oh and one of my, now many, workshop manuals in there too