45 Series Cruiser Tidy Up

[Noeyedeer]

So....... many moons ago I aquired this......















And decided to give her a bit of a tidy up with the plan to put her back on the road.......

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...........and progress pretty much stopped there

Fast forward two years and 1/2 a house extension, I aquired a donar fj45 wreck with a 350 sbc (which needs a rebuild) , gear box with adaptor and transfer case running twin pto winches front and rear, modified drive shafts and mounts etc. So pretty much everything I needed to do a straight swap over
Fast forward another year and a half, a finished house extension and a mortgage blow out and I was starring down the barrel of my 40th year of existance. So what does one do? One decides to pull his finger out and get the f#@kn thing swapped over and driving so I can use it before I turn 60 So this is whats gone down in the last three weeks.

[Noeyedeer]

Moved truck to the cuzzies flash as man cave..........He into hotrods and all things that run on fossil fuels, is very handy on the spanners and probably the main motivator, engineer,fabricator,sparky,welder and all round good bastard on the project.





Out with this.......



To make room for this......cuzzy rebuilt this one to sell to get some money for another project he had lined up but I managed to wrangle it off him by giving him my motor and some cash his way



But first a bit of a tidy up.........

[Noeyedeer]

Time to put her in the hole ..........











New aluminium radiator and thermo fan to help with cooling........







Things on the to do list are:
wire up the fan
sort exhaust
run new piping from clutchmaster cylinder to slave
modify battery box
put the guards and front back on.

Scored these puppies thanks cuzz!



Ok so exhaust done, battery box done,front and guards back on so to do list stands at.......
wire up the fan
run new piping from clutchmaster cylinder to slave
hopefully by Saturday.......

She lives again....... fan wired clutch sorted, fired her up and took her for a strop round the paddock........Now to shorten the ass end a little.......



Gotta love those plasma cutters















Still more welding and some bracing left to do,throw the tray on and shorten it to match.

[Filthy4x4]

Awesome bro, looking good. Glad to see some progress on it

[DMcCready]

Ooooh Yea! Love me a 45 series

[smurf182]

Primo!

Now you've sorted the motive power you can return it to its glorious original colour

I see you're a fellow westie, we will have to get a few of these old cruisers together and go for a skid

[Heath]

Got any bits you dont want?

Steering wheel and seats?

[Noeyedeer]

Awesome bro, looking good. Glad to see some progress on it

Shot Bro, Yeah you and me both

[Noeyedeer]

Primo!

Now you've sorted the motive power you can return it to its glorious original colour

I see you're a fellow westie, we will have to get a few of these old cruisers together and go for a skid

Sorry mate I've never looked good in yellow , decided I'm now gonna paint her black
Will let you know when I take her up to woodhill for her rebirth run, that way if I break her there will be someone there with spare parts

[Noeyedeer]

Got any bits you dont want?

Steering wheel and seats?

Sorry my friend I'm still using my ones.

[Heath]

Got any bits you dont want?

Steering wheel and seats?

Sorry my friend I'm still using my ones.

Sweet, had to ask, just in case you had some spares tucked away

Nice ride by the way.

[datsunsafari]

looking good luke , might end up too good to take up woodhill,but if you do im keen

[Noeyedeer]

Cheers bro, she gonna be my bush truck so yeah gonna use her for her intended purpose will let you know when I head up to woodhill, hopefully be drivable by Saturday.

[Noeyedeer]

Yup she now driveable