We thought we’d all have trouble getting this on the drive and as for pressure washing mud off you’d probably have to get very friendly with the local fire station guys?

It’s not that I don’t look under here very often but whilst crawling around underneath I decided that a certain amount of repainting is required.

Suppose 5 years worth of events hasn’t helped but there is no deep corrosion so should be easy to clean up and paint.

One day MSA event at this great site near Melton Mowbray. This event will have hidden punches and trial sections set out. Event runs from 10am to 4pm.

Site suits all abilities

TOILETS (bring your own loo roll!!) / RUNNING WATER AVAILABLE.

Fees £15 members, £25 non members.

Vehicles MUST conform to scrutineering requirements to participate, follow this link for full details.

Directions.

Site is off B676 Colsterworth Road in village of Stainby, entrance is approx quarter mile past cross roads with Skillington Lane, heading towards A1. Postcode is NG33 5QP. Entrance will have 4×4 markers nearby.

I decided to  build this truck last Xmas for something to keep me occupied and spend some worthwhile money on (I think that is now an understatement!)

Here’s a detailed write up of what has been going on.

The Chassis-

The chassis Has been welded up now and painted, It has rose joints on the links to the chassis offering a lot of movement compared to standard rubber bushes. The axles are off a range rover classic. I have used bespoke trailing arms at the rear and modified radius arms at the front. I have made mounts on the chassis to accept the radius arms and trailing arms and upper link for the rear axle, Plus new spring mounts on the axles and bespoke suspension turrets on the chassis. Also at the minute it has RR and LR coils (But i will be changing these for softer ones at a later date), the shocks are pro comp es9000,s. The suspension fully dislocates all round with my bespoke dislocation cones that i fabricated. Dazz kindly donated a power steering box from a Mercedes G-wagon as it was just the thing for the job. The chassis has been lengthened by 9″ as the sump was too close to the front diff for my liking. I have custom made the rear bumper/winch trey and purposely made it a little heavier than normal to compensate for the light body on the rear and heavy engine upfront. All the fuel lines and brake line are in. I’ve used braided hoses for the chassis to hub connections all round for the brakes. The main fuel and brake lines are made out of copper with the final fuel connections being standard rubber fuel hose.  I have made a bespoke propshaft for the front which has two wide angle UJ’s. To do this i had a piece of tube machined up to mate the daihatsu prop and slider to the rangey prop.

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Here is a write up of my latest  bobtailing project.

Hi to all, the discovery was all ready fitted with some off road kit when I bought it, but I thought lets give it the chop, and make it more interesting, it takes quite a bit of working out the angles for the cuts, but used to it now as I’ve done a few in the last year, the roof and inner frame work and boot floor are all easy to weld as just steel, so the only tricky bit I am having trouble with is the ally tig welding, but I have a mate who is brill at it (scott doyle) so he will weld the sides for me this week and then its for the paint shop, the tow bar will be put back on and some extra brackets welded to chassis for the arms to bolt on, the tank this time I have had made from plastic with the discovery sender unit fitted back in, I had alloy ones for last ones, so will see how the plastic holds out, will let you know if splits, the filler cap will be reused and tigged into side panel, ( see photos ) the arches have been cut back to accept the 33 12.50 15 bfg tyres and offset modular rims, just got to get rocksliders with tree guards and a set of arches for finnishing off, the roof has been painted with semi gloss paint and the center of bonnet will be done when rest of car is painted, to stop the glare when roof lights are fitted. I hope you enjoy the project and only happy to answer any questions you have or ideas that could help in future projects, I have just bought another white 3 door 200 tdi and will bobtail that next. I hope to have it finished by early feb as it is still has tax and mot, ready for offroading.

This write up could prove interesting as it may go on a bit, and it’s something I’ve not done before but often thought about, I’ll try and stick to the the plan and write about the Buggy although getting sidetracked purely depends on who walks into the yard/garage/kitchen and distracts/moans/kicks or pulls chair out from under of?, so here goes:- Read More »

My truck came to me as the best off road-er in the world. I soon learned that this was not the case as it had major over heating problems and very poor wiring on the winches. Plus the pressure plate on the clutch was dead after one day at leek.So with help from little Andy and Pete we attempted to take out the clutch, problem was this truck was built so the gearbox would never come out.Out came the angle grinder and the gear box was liberated. I went to every clutch specialist in Nottingham and Derby,until in some back street little unit a man said oh you have a dual mass fly wheel.So another problem was solved. Read More »

After weeks of badgering people for content, (thanks Chris, and Byron, Nigel don’t think that I have forgotten) I figure that it is about time that I start practising what I preach and trying to write up the history of Shrek the rangie.

Shrek came to me as an insurance write off for £670 from Easysalvage

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