Hopefully only a day or so left on the shell metalwork.
Yesterday’s effort saw the window aperture finished off and the guttering and rear scuttle all welded in.
I’ve started stripping the paint off the O/S ready for shaping and priming. 😁
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Front beam mostly built up today and fitted my 2.5” lift spindles from NB Restorations. Superb build quality and attention to detail on the spindles (2nd pic shows the bug at stock height for comparison).
Painted up a nice new set of brake drums and the old tie rods. Hoping to finish up the last little bits on the chassis next week and then move onto starting to prep the body for paint (few odd welding jobs left too).
Running gear and a few chassis bolt on panels for the baja all painted on a gloriously warm day. It’s starting to feel like spring!
Should be able to start chassis reassembly next week now.
Carried on with sorting through the Baja’s suspension components over the weekend. Knocked the old bearings out of the trailing arms and started shot blasting a few bits ready for paint.
I need to weld on some new bump stop mounts but overall they’re in good condition considering they had an ants nest living in them when we pulled them out of NOSVW’s dub graveyard!
Got the rest of the baja chassis painted over the weekend.
I can now start cleaning up and bolting bits back on to build up a rolling chassis.
A good start to the New Year on the Baja. Seam sealed and Raptor coated the underside, framehead and framehorns. Colour coded in Savannah Biege, or as Max always calls it “Bundy Biege” 😳
A few pics from the shot blasters today. Picking up the chassis tomorrow and into primer on Friday! Can’t wait.
Finished trimming the front for the nose piece and added some rivnuts to hold it on. The nose fits really nicely now.
Full mockup of the baja front panels this afternoon. I’ve a bit of trimming left to do but it’s just about where I want it.
Lunchtime trip over to see @nosvw_vw_man to strip the IRS components from this knackered chassis. Came complete with vines, ants and woodlice 😎. Should clean up nicely for the baja.
