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Hinged van panels.
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General Project Peterborough
Hinged van panels.
Orange panda, embossed tailgate, lights, bars, fantastic.
Makes me want to live in a LHD country.
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I did consider orange for mine but I haven't had much luck with "Guff" colours and I didn't want people to think I worked for the RAC or some other battery selling organisation.
That style bull bar is available to buy from Italy on ebay for £350!
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That style bull bar is available to buy from Italy on ebay for £350!
Why would you when you can have my Vitara one for £30.
Precisely!
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Further delays getting hold of my 4x4. The Golf the chap has replaced the car with and will be using as soon as it's fixed has melted another ECU.
Also the factory up the road from where I work is closing down and they have a snow plough attachment for their forklift trucks.
This gave me a practical use for the 6x6 idea that's been floating around my head.
Also a MS Paint idea of roughly what the 4x4 Van could look like...
...maybe without the chevron but not bad eh?
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Also the factory up the road from where I work is closing down and they have a snow plough attachment for their forklift trucks.
This gave me a practical use for the 6x6 idea that's been floating around my head.
Also a MS Paint idea of roughly what the 4x4 Van could look like...
...maybe without the chevron but not bad eh?
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Fiver for a tow bar to adapt...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/231041139...IT&_trksid=p3984.m1426.l2649&autorefresh=true
...if it works great if not I have all the bits I need to make it work.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/231041139...IT&_trksid=p3984.m1426.l2649&autorefresh=true
...if it works great if not I have all the bits I need to make it work.
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I'll use Guff II as a template provided the rear chassis rails are the same it should be okay.
Is there a prize on the forum for the most work done/planned for an imaginary car
If so, congrats, you just won it
If so, congrats, you just won it
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I'm too nice. Letting the guy keep hold of the car until the replacement is fixed. That's part of Pandaing.
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Turns out my £5 Mini tow bar was a £160 BMW MINI tow bar.
I did wonder why it didn't look anything like the Minispares one.
So do I relist it for £50 and make a few quid for a winch or take a grinder to it?
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Grinding can wait. I have a bit of a job to do.
https://www.fiatforum.com/lets-talk-fiat/333402-panda-4x4-leaf-spring-raising-poll.html?p=3318099
https://www.fiatforum.com/lets-talk-fiat/333402-panda-4x4-leaf-spring-raising-poll.html?p=3318099
That tow coupling is worth £30 on its own
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Okay after a bit of grinding...
...I used welding clamps to hold it in place and mark ready for drilling.
I was dreading this as I have no way of putting the ruddy great bar in my mates pillar drill and after my Diamond disc glowed red hot I went through three normal discs. I have no idea what kind of steel it was made of but it took a half hour just to cut the two corners out. I welded along the newly exposed seams. Normally with structural work I'd Arc it but because my welder was buried under a pile of stuff I had to M.I.G it. Poor welder hit duty cycle five times and blew the extension lead fuse.
The standard drill bits cut through like a fat brides maid cuts through wedding cake then this happened...
...to my step bit. Wow! :bang:
Anyway this is where progress ended...
...ran out of time as I'm back to work in the morning and have to get prepared. I'll replace the standard bumper bracket bolts with hi-tensile ones when the car arrives.
...I used welding clamps to hold it in place and mark ready for drilling.
I was dreading this as I have no way of putting the ruddy great bar in my mates pillar drill and after my Diamond disc glowed red hot I went through three normal discs. I have no idea what kind of steel it was made of but it took a half hour just to cut the two corners out. I welded along the newly exposed seams. Normally with structural work I'd Arc it but because my welder was buried under a pile of stuff I had to M.I.G it. Poor welder hit duty cycle five times and blew the extension lead fuse.
The standard drill bits cut through like a fat brides maid cuts through wedding cake then this happened...
...to my step bit. Wow! :bang:
Anyway this is where progress ended...
...ran out of time as I'm back to work in the morning and have to get prepared. I'll replace the standard bumper bracket bolts with hi-tensile ones when the car arrives.
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The lower lip of the bumper will need to be cut back a little to clear the box section. I'll put red reflective tape along that to add to the anti-tailgateryness of it.
Don't worry about clearance issues the 4x4 will be about six inches higher than (the soon to be renamed) Guff II.
Don't worry about clearance issues the 4x4 will be about six inches higher than (the soon to be renamed) Guff II.
Proper towbars bolt through the crossmember running front to back under the boot floor, I wouldn't want to put much weight on the bumper mounts, they are pretty flimsy really.
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I'm going to run box off the main beam to an "H" section with six mounting points including the rear jack/tow block in the middle. The bumper holes were convenient considering the original design of the bar.
Also as the 4x4 and 2wd have the same rear bumper it was a mounting point I was confident would be universal. I didn't want to spend the day fabricating something only for it not to work because the spring hangers or shock mounts are different.
I could take some photos of the towbar from my Sisley and how it mounts if you like?
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