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Then il buy another off you mud king. Yeah how much for one of your decals? I bought one from oregon and postage was quick. Havn't put it on yet so if yours are better il buy one!

rtcb65 wrote:Got a few more items mounted up today.

To stop exhaust fumes and dust getting into the body area , put rubber around where the bumper is now bolting up.



Rear mud flaps tidied up and fitted.



Fuel filler pipe fitted and cap and door.





Tail gate handle fitted up.



Rear bumper and tow bar now fitted.

steptoe wrote:drooling again, that anti chip application for the top rim of the tray tub is great idea !

sensational attention to detail - I love and admire it

mud_king91 wrote:yea i think i saw them im considering it tell steve i said FINE ill make my own a cooler one :S

I will be impressed if you do

Il help him make one if i can have one as well! Then it will defanatly be better than steve's
Im looking for a rear bumper / rear step to replace my rusted towbar.

lovey80 wrote: Steves metallurgy skills are just scary.

Notice the custom mounts for the top of the OME shocks in the back? Legend has it, that Steve chewed up a barbecue plate with his own teeth to make those.

hope you have good dental plans

Brumby Kid wrote:Il help him make one if i can have one as well! Then it will defanatly be better than steve's
Im looking for a rear bumper / rear step to replace my rusted towbar.

FROG wrote:sensational attention to detail - I love and admire it

I will be impressed if you do

Thanks Frog. Just trying to put some thought and common ,, or should i say , uncommon sense into what we are doing.

I will be impressed if a bar is made as good as , and be up to the quality and function ability as these are. Dont get me wrong , i am not saying it cant be done, i bet it can, but it will take a good person, with some major ability that will be the one,to do it.

my welds are near unbreakable but i couldnt make something neat like that it,ll be more on the barwork side of things

MMMM bullbar goodness, looking awesome as always guys...

wish i could afford to get my car up to you guys, not to mention there is probly too much on your lists already... i would love mine to have an overhaul once i have finished setting it up...

keep it up...

cheers

Anyone that can, and wants it, should go ahead and build something better than i have for this car. I made up what was required and desired for the build. I could do far fancier and extensive fabrications, but it's about making the right part for the right purpose.

As for having the time, my own car needs lots of work and my other one was supposed to be on the road months ago. But too many things being on my plate means some things take longer to accomplish than what we want. On top of the constant Subaru designs and fabrication, I'm also building two go-karts, a flying fox, and other things. It would be quicker if I could just buy the parts I need, but having to make a large centrifugal clutch, planetary gearbox, braking components, steering parts and other bits and peices from sratch all takes time. Especially slow progress when all the machining and forming is done with an angle grinder, drill press, welder and a hammer. But having kids means more trouble than you could imagine, otherwise condom sales would affect the stock exchange more...

are you sure you couldnt fit more on your plate....

LOL yes kids are as much a handbrake as the wife, think i get to spend a total of 1hr a week building my car... not good for progress...

as long as you keep giving us inspiration and pretty pictures i'm sure we'll all be happy, hehehe...

yous always do better than perfect work... and we all love it...

cheers

How the he'll did you get those ratty old mud flaps to come up like that? When I saw Ross starting to clean them up the other day, I honestly thought it was a lost effort. They came up a million bucks, top work!

Funds came through yesterday to finish off the remaining bits and pieces. Will give you guys a ring when I know I will have wheels.

glycerine from the condiments section of supermarkets does wonders to plastics and rubber

Started to connected up the lights . Number plate lights on rear bar are now connected to the car. Got a old M.Y. harness and cut the same colored wires out of it, to extend the ordinal wires, as , with the new bar , has the indicators not quite the same spot. Also the new ones are L series , so ends have to be changed anyway.

One more little problem has now been over come. The E.J. engines ( the ej 22 ) doesn't have very many vacuum lines on it. For that matter , i have only found 2. One for the fuel return and one on the throttle body. With the L series center diff lock box , it requires vacuum to hold the center diff in or out of lock. Also the fresh and recycle flap in the brumby requires vacuum to switch between them. On the manifold there is a blank off. Lucky for us , on one of our spare engines , there was a vacuum out let . So over to this engine it went.

you got the little square drive blank off plug out easily then? I have never been able to get these guys out, so tight and no real good grip on the square.

Yeah, they're probably frozen (to shrink it), glued, and put it with a really big rattle gun... But, all you need is a spare 1/4 inch drive socket, file the square shank of the plug down a little so you can hammer the socket onto it (backwards), then use an allen key in the socket to crack the thread and undo the little sucker.

Oops, sorry. That was a trade secret (a simple fix that makes the "technician" look like a wizard).

So, I retract my previous advice and replace it with...:

MAGIC MATE, IT'S MAGIC. LEAVE IT TO US WIZARDS...

I too had to get one of these little hollow tube pieces to operate the air duct controls on the dash - found one in an early Gen1 liberty. And the blank screw came out with ease, I think I just used a shifter to do the job.

Cheers

Bennie

El_Freddo wrote:I too had to get one of these little hollow tube pieces to operate the air duct controls on the dash - found one in an early Gen1 liberty. And the blank screw came out with ease, I think I just used a shifter to do the job.

Cheers

Bennie

You must have the magic touch . Out of seven engines, not one of them came out easy. .

The rear cover tie downs fitted up , Part of the side stripping fitted.

rtcb65 wrote:

Check out that shine!!! Awesome.

But that scorpion in the back needs some attention, it seems to have attracted some dust

Other than that the snippets we've received look awesome!

Cheers

Bennie