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Far to
early for a coat of paint, but we couldn't resist,
a decision has still yet to be made about the choice
of paint to cover the aluminium parts. We used
Khaki silk paint for the body's (emulsion), this seems
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I popped
down to my local automotive supplier to find a custom
colour matched aerosol
for the metal bits; Unfortunately once applied it was
obvious that the colour did not match particularly well
and the decision was made to prime the aluminium and
paint over with emulsion. This is not an ideal solution,
but touching up is at least easy.
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This shows Woot's first attempt ever at welding and what
a fine job he did of it as well.
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Can't seem to stop him now. |
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My rear axle secured in to place using 6mm bolts.
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The metal fixing plates above the
axle. |
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I decided that a fixed axle would
be of no use to us as the Toylander will be used mainly
in the field at the back
of the house and would likely get stuck in the unevenness
of it all. Thus a pivoting axle design has been implemented.
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The stub axles consists of 24mm
threaded bar for the pivoting action and 25mm solid bright
bar for the wheels to attach to. |
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The wheel's were ordered from Toylander,
we admittedly looked around for cheaper variants, but
when it came to it, the
originals looked the best and offered best value for money. |
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A stubb was fabricated and attached
to the rear of the Geepstar, this gives an excellent place
for the spare wheel to be attached. If your picky the
spare was always on the right hand side of the original Willys,
but this version is going to be R/H drive, we are in the
UK you know! |
MGF
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