cheers lobster no worrys at all glad you are enjoying it,sick avatar too bay the way!!

Hey mate, just read your thread. love what you are doing! I was tossing up whether to buy a wb ute or a 1500 datto. But reading and seeing the pictures of this thread has made my decision. Ringing the guy now to organize payment! Great inspiration. thanks keep it up!

ok well im back for a bit im in the middle of doing some things this week end on the ute and making progress slowly,couple things this weekend i managed to clean up and paint the x member which i have to say was the most filty part ive worked on yet ,this thing was covered in grease dirt and al sorts of ####, so thats done also i managed to paint the spare tyre frame,
and another headlight cup which i had to do becasue i painted 2 left ones instaed of a right and left !!opps not to worry all fixed now,

full pics of those will be up tomorrow night ,

the other thing i have done is the passenger door ,full bare metal ,repair and prime ,
tomorrow ill be blocking the door back and repriming it to make sure shes nioce and straight heres a few shots of things done today.......

ok this is the x member for the engine,
this thing wass totaly filfty ,
i had to clean and clean and clean again just to get down to the steel!!!
heres a tip if yourve got time when cleaning parts like this ,use oven cleaner ,let it sit for as long as you can ,then hose down ,it really helps to move the grease off,

so got it all clean and sanded it up then set it in the booth hanging between 2 stands ,so i could paint underneath and on top at the same time ,

i have a short video clip of putting the first coat on ,will try to figure out how to get it on here soon.....

also the frame that hold the spare tyre under the ute,was painted as well ,this thing to was filthy, heres one of the oven cleaner trick............




then once all clean the sanding and prep..




then hanging in the booth ready for paint...

the painted shots will be up to morrow as my camera run out of memory due to the video clip i took ,so keep an eye for those,

now to go a little off topic , here a few shot of the actual ute!!! now dont get to excited i havnt touched the body yet ,it is in need of a hell of a lot of work,

was giving it a quick look over today and found that the last ower must have been so sort of fast and furious fan or some thing case there were all these little lights under the car!!!!!!!!!!what the!!!!!!!!!??????????

weird ,some sort of try hard neons or some thing,not to worry they Will be removed for sure!!! ,no dodgy stuff here ,

ok also another thing on the go is the engine,heres a shot of the poor little engine ,she looks terrible,half naked with al the bits off and very dirty and yuk hahahaha
but once again dont stress!!!! its all good wll be getting a full recondition,so no dramas here,will post more of the engine once the starts getting under way a bit later down the track,

heres some more random pics of the ute,







and this one makes me cringe,this is one of the worst engine bays ive seen ,and i have to fix it!!!!!!!!woh is me hahahhaha

also check out these sick wheels hahahhahahahahahhahahha
these puppys are 12 x 5 huge!!!!!!!!

well heres the link to download a short clip of painting the x member may be of interest to some one,
not to sure if this will work tho,give it a go some one and let me know????

http://www.filesend.net/download.php? ... 050d1bcdf80839829dfe867bb

or

http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=e6ec0a8050d1bcdf80839829dfe867bb