ANY UPDATES PJ?

 

nothing major mate.we have good snow here right now and some low temperatures,so any work on the build outdoors is on hold.
but! because im keen to progress my 1977 3/4 ton w200 power wagon.
i have bought a few of the lesser jobs indoors just to make some progress.
i have plated and welded [MIG] some of the front clip which was in poor shape,next on the bench are the wings which are seriously rotten and require major re-skinning in places,although i haven't looked into the price of new re pop body panels,i do know a new screen will cost me around £200/$286-so im in no hurry to find out,i,d rather spend the time while i have it.
the engine/trans job is booked in for early january,but so are a lot of other things,so we will see,as i have said before getting engine and transmission hooked up and set in the chassis will be the most difficult part of this build for me.
but as soon as this is done im away running with lots of the one off fab work that i really enjoy.

 

got the lincoln tig welder sold,this was taking up all the space in my shop-it,s a tiny place set up to do motorcycles-the guy collects it on sunday,so i can get the engine and trans lined up again and get my next set of measurements.
the snow has gone here -for now.

 

putting some pictures in here

 

donors

 

back to the welding-

 

PJ,

Did you find the proper pressure plate for this set up?

 

i have the stock item,the performance ones were way too much corn for a rough old mud truck.i found a spicer T5-350 sync transmission,but it has no pto,im still juggling with ideas,got some work done on the tin,and been researching the rewire.
i really need some dry weather demmitt.

 

still doing tin work,rusty old iron.building the cold air intake from a prototype icing duct intake horn from a v22 osprey.

 

ok, got a bunch of stuff done and still not much to look at-roll on springtime-

here,s a few shots of some of the stuff i got made-

a few of the cold air intake,this intake will sit up on the roof,i still gotta figure a water trap/drop out-any ideas?
cut the whole deal outta card,settled on a desighn and jig sawed it from ally-tig,d up the main parts.then went to see mark who final rolled the cover