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MK4 Build Journey Jeff_J

This is the journey of kit started July 15,2022..

  1. I wanted to see how the peddle box would mount in the Driver side area so I attached the peddle box to the mounting plate and used some spare nuts to...

  2. Today I dug out the Willwood peddle box front panel and loose fit it to the chassis.

  3. passnger footbox btm 18

  4. Assembled and cleco'd the Passenger footbox. ** I was wondering - there are some places were the riveting tool is just not going t fit to...

  5. I moved on to the Passenger side footbox. located the top aligned and marked the attachment rails. Drilled and cleco'd them in place then slid in...

  6. Firewall installed. I'm installing the heater defroster as well as the windshield wiper system and I was s little unsure of the .40ga aluminium so I...

  7. Took the opportunity to grease and loose fit the rear upper arms - no nuts to tighten them but the tabs they fit in were very tight... the holes to...

  8. Figured I would take a look at the peddle box assembly. Drilled the holes and attached the switch for the the brake and clutch safety switch.

  9. #12 switches installed Pedal box

  10. #13 17 inch rims arrived

  11. With the body off and offsite the journey of removing the tin begins. First I marked all the panels attached to the chassis and took a lot of photo's...

  12. Tins off - and so the journey begins.

  13. Today I started on suspension. Loose assembled the front suspension as far as I could go - spindles - rotors steering rack are yet to come just...

  14. Trimmed the rear spindles with my angle grinder and finished it with a sanding disk. There's a lot of stuff on the POL i'm waiting for - a lot of...

  15. Small delay in the build, my body buck got repurposed to hold fence pickets when i wasn't watching. hmmmm.

  16. #2 arrival

  17. 152255 is home and in the garage!!

  18. Ok Restart - Pickets gone - body removal from chassis - possible by two definitely better with 4..!!

  19. Body off chassis and off to it's storage location so I have more room to work. leaving the chassis on the rolling frame to make it easier to move...
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