Ute update!

Its been a long time. Latest modifications include fender flares, mira front bar, and some more General Lee accessories. Musical air horn ready to install.

Fender flares I sourced from a guy who knew a guy in Warwick. Apparently he builds fiberglass pieces for the vintage V8 Supercar races. I am extremely happy with the shape and fit of the flares. I previously had a set of flares from Bpro second hand and I much prefer the look of these ones.

Mira bar finally trimed and painted. Installation of flares and mira bar provided by Sanitora Works. A few final touch ups needed as we rushed to get them on for the All Day Classic Japanese show yesterday. Here are a few pictures from the show by others:

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Looking good mate well done, The general lee. Noticed in one pic it appears your undoing bolts with a tension wrench. Its a good way to throw out the calibration on them or even do permanent damage. Not saying it will but it happened to my last one and we had to send it back to get re calibrated. The supplier strongly warned me against using it for undoing any nut or bolt especially with tension on them. My latest one says this in writing.

I see guard mirrors too Geoff. All that wood?? You lacking some wood else where?

You just have to rub it all back it stead of one out

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Bought a set of flares. They fit like poo. Very disappointing. Waiting for a second set of flares to be made. So far I haven't been pulled up yet by Queensland's finest but I have had a fair few looks from them at stop lights.

Mods currently in the works:

Autotechnica seats
Gearshift rebushing
Flares

Engine build is still on hold. The Dellorto's are pulled apart and have been wet blasted thanks to Component Restorations in Brendale. Great job with restoring them!

Also have thoughts of going with an all wood interior, e.g. wood glove box lid, wood dash fascia, wood door cards, and wooden gear shift knob. Already have a wood steering wheel.

to get them to fit without major guard mods your gonna have to run smaller tyres so they tuck under. i have 8s on the back of mine with 185 55 14 +-0 and had to roll the inner lip of the guards, was pretty easy with a hammer and dolly set and a steel baseball bat, had to take the thick leaf out + 2" blocks and a bit of junk in the tray to make the baseball bat trick work otherwise you should be able to find some goon on the gold coast with a guard rolling machine to do it pretty cheap, id be doing the same on the front, you should be able to do it without doing too much damage to the paint.

So yeah, smaller tyres on the back, 175 50s would be mint, the same for the front even some 165 55s and wind some camber in to get them under.

Doing all this will also make it one of the most badass utes on the block.

With the money you will spend on "lower spings" added with the dissapointemt when you realise they are not low enough id be going for an adjustable front end like the 1200 coupe/120Y otomoto setup then you can also do an easy brake upgrade.

Gun rack for the rear window
Bull horns on bonnet
Corn pipe

What more could a red neck Yankee I mean queenslander want

Next you'll be on farmer wants a wife but still be left with Mrs palmer and the back of your hand

Oh, and that musical air horn is the next mod I am making...just going to buy it in the states instead and bring it back when I visit soon.

Haha mik. Always a laugh.

I could do a suspension mod myself but I don't know enough about it. The front is standard height I believe...Unless it was raised by the previous owner.

I would like to get the rear leafs reset instead of lower blocks/flipped spring...etc.. for safety.

Dunno what to do to the front, I guess new springs is a start.

As far as the guards, I don't think rolling them will get me the 2"+ I need? What do you guys reckon? I'm just assuming flares are the way to go but I don't want to buy them if I can get the guards super duper rolled.

I found the rims by way of another member on Ebay, very lucky find. I'm so happy with them. 30 seconds after we fitted them I went for a drive and locals were staring hard out. I heard a random shout out "Go get em Bo" !! No joke.

where did you get these rims from they look awesome ! i wanna try and sort ot a set.
you got a killer ride going on here :)