It's been nearly 2 months since my last visit to the truck, managed to sneak out today, didn't get a lot done spent most of my time fossicing through boxes of parts to find all the internal parts for my doors.
Window regulators, door lock, door handles, lock mechanism, check straps, window guides etc etc.
Got the passenger door all completed and back together ready to hang. No point hanging it till seat mounts and molded floor etc in the cab are completed.
, my drivers door still needs painting so hopefully getting onto that in the next couple months, have bonnet, guards roof and a bit at the back of the cab to spray so hoping to do that all at the same time.
I have also made the decision to remove the wellside, and put a flat deck on, as much as the wellside conversion has been done to a good finish, I much prefer the idea of a flat deck for what I intend on using this truck for. The idea of garking up he wellside has been on my mind since I bought it and a flat deck would be much better.
I have masked up up the side of the truck where I intend to chop the cab following the contour of the back of the cab(this is the vertical line), the horizontal line represents the height I want to have the flat deck sitting at which is in line with the top of the inside of the wheel arch. This should improve departure angle and less prone to getting dinged and scratched up when I'm out doing dumb shit in it.
Happy to build a deck but if anyone has a 1800wide flat deck sitting around I could be interested. Would need to be 1500L or longer.
Anyway here's a pic of the chop masked out. Might get back tomorrow and start pulling fuel lines and looms out of the wellside in preparation for surgery.
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