Military Lightweight Forum

AR4412 wrote: ↑

Wed May 13, 2020 9:19 pm

I think if I was to buy a Classic while the house is still full of Lightweight, I would be de-balled by the good lady.

Regards,

Still worth it. If the radio works, at least you can sing soprano along to the high-brow tunes on Classic FM while you tinker with the Rangey. You’ve no use for them at your age anyway bud

How rude!

Regards,

AR4412 wrote: ↑

Wed May 13, 2020 10:00 pm

How rude!

Regards,

Loving the early photos of stripdown on this truck..there’s something very cool about them in the ‘just recovered’ state, before the work really starts. - please keep the photos coming.

Andy

Bit more spraying today, far from perfect but it’s got a shine! Dog fluff getting everywhere, at least the bonnet needs a second coat!
Nearly time to start hiding the painted parts in the house, at least my girlfriend is fairly understanding
Doesn’t help that I’ve ordered 3 air regulators with water traps and none gave turned up, all lost

Decided to use the donors front wings, neither are split at the top next to the rad panel which is good and both have the mirror reinforcement.

I don’t suppose anyone has cad drawings for the two front side panels on the tub, the tub crossmember and the tub bulkhead?
I’ve found a company local that can make a load, they just don’t like copying old nasty parts
I don’t think it’s going to be easy to do cardboard templates lol

Cheers

Quick question lol,
Any ideas what the 3 holes are on both front wings? Pinched the pic off google, the donor wings have all 3 drilled out, I think the donor was ffr, not sure.

Cheers

Hi Don,

The three holes, drilled out on the FFR wings, are for mounting a TUAAM. (Tuning Unit, Automatic, Antenna Matching.)

Regards,

Ar4412, cheers did think they were, I won’t fill them as I might put a couple on ( at least in the correct holes lol)

Did any GS spec have the dexion racking in the tub? I’m thinking about fitting it as will be a dog guard almost lol.
I think mine lead a sheltered life in storage at VSD’s , the hard life started when it left the army lol.

Cheers

More prep and painting today, first bits are in the house too
Donors front wings are in very good condition, not that straight along the edge along the side but with a bit more hammering and twisting they should be half about.

A hammer, a decent scraper that you can hit with the hammer, a hot air gun and a gallon of petrol got the under seal off the inner wings, I stink now

Cheers

Looking great! Looks like you’ve got a lot of work on there.. the only positive I can take from this lockdown is all the time you can spend on your landy

It's brilliant when the original paint starts to appear, though isn't it? That's how I cleaned mine and it works really well. One thing which did make me wonder, though, was why there are so many holes in the inner wings! What are they all for? Incidentally, as on mine, your mudshield brackets are shot. I followed Neil's advice and used Tigerseal to fix new, homemade aluminium ones on and that worked a treat.