Buggy rebuild thread....

At least its getting there bud soon be dubbing again in no time

We need piccies!

More pics of the complete front



Thanks to Mr Scoops for the shox mounting rubbers

finally back on 4 wheels

will have to get some more red paint to finish that o/s tie rod also some black on those trailing arms, and some caliper paint too

looking pretty good there all painted up that brake hose looks a bit tight tho

Yeah, I noticed that in the pic, I will adjust the tracking to suit.

that new beam looks ton's better dude ....nice and solid

griff wrote:

that brake hose looks a bit tight tho

After putting it back on the ground, and driving it aroung the brake pipe is not tight any more


Only thing that I am pi**ed off about now is the fact that I have somehow lost ALL my brakes the pedal is totally soft, a mystery to me as all I did was remove the caliper from stubaxle, and then bolt it back up.
But now I have NO brakes at all


Any suggestions as to why

Love the detailing, gona be awesome.

Are all the flexi-pipes new?? If not they could be weeping..........or have you accidentaly kinked one of the rigid pipes??

shock boots on dampers for mot, will fail without them.
brakes could be air in system as buggey jacked up air rose upto calipers, or maybe pipe twisted an made threded joint weep. if no signs of fluid check master cyl out as maybe weeping out the back into box section behind pedals, if single circuit brakes all brake pressure will be lost.
andy

joker 67 wrote:

shock boots on dampers for mot, will fail without them.

Do you mean the plastic covers? if so I have never fitted them, and it passed MOT last year like that.

renegade67 wrote:

joker 67 wrote:

shock boots on dampers for mot, will fail without them.

Do you mean the plastic covers? if so I have never fitted them, and it passed MOT last year like that.

They should fail but i've had them pass in the past.. I use uni fit steering rack gatters just the job

Never had them fail and never fitted them either

how do hot rods pass with the chrome shocks on the front .....they have no rubber boots ?

Lots of MOTers will pass them without... I've never had one fail yet..

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shock boots on dampers for mot, will fail without them.

no it wont. not having boots on the dampers isnt even an advisory item (i dont think its a testable item but i will have to check on that one.)

i checked today and the manual doesnt even mention the boots on the dampers so it isnt testable even if they arent there

Thanks Dan, saves me having to bother getting any boots for them.

Right update time, finally got the front end finished. Thanks to Lee (Dub Mayhem), just needs the tracking doing, next on the list is a rewire, using a bought buggy loom, as I just cannot find out why my headlight relay don't work, and with the multicolour loom it has now I am having trouble tracing the wires, so with the help of Matt (Wurzelspice) we are going to rip the old one out and start from scratch, hopefully making it easier to trace any faults.
So after Wednesday's meet, look out loom, its the bin for you

renegade67 wrote:

Right update time, finally got the front end finished. Thanks to Lee (Dub Mayhem), just needs the tracking doing, next on the list is a rewire, using a bought buggy loom, as I just cannot find out why my headlight relay don't work, and with the multicolour loom it has now I am having trouble tracing the wires, so with the help of Matt (Wurzelspice) we are going to rip the old one out and start from scratch, hopefully making it easier to trace any faults.
So after Wednesday's meet, look out loom, its the bin for you

No worries dude like I said always happy to help. Thank god your gonna get a new wiring loom it looked a mess dude and would have been a nightmare to tidy up so rip it out and start again

Fair play too you .....after two complete re-wires and a recent partial one ....i'm still petrified of the dreaded loom ......however simple some say they are ....the thing is ..on all three occasions they have all worked first time

hope you get it sorted soon

We've done 2 rewires from knowing absolutely nothing about electrics and both cars work fine - so it must have worked

Plus you get to know where all the wires go and understand your car much better - so if you did get a problem you're able to trace it much more easily.

the old dashboard looked a bit crap, full of filler and all uneven and different thicknesses, even after I had filled all the old holes.

after attacking it with a jigsaw it looked like this



still have to remove the 2 metal reinforcing corners, which at the moment look fu(king lethal

then put this in its place

then I will have a blank canvas to start again
just the speedo, and possibly a head unit not sure yet

ah no size nine needed this time dude well attacked on the dash and yeah the metal bits look well lethal gotta come off

renegade67 wrote:

Right update time, finally got the front end finished. Thanks to Lee (Dub Mayhem), just needs the tracking doing, next on the list is a rewire, using a bought buggy loom, as I just cannot find out why my headlight relay don't work, and with the multicolour loom it has now I am having trouble tracing the wires, so with the help of Matt (Wurzelspice) we are going to rip the old one out and start from scratch, hopefully making it easier to trace any faults.
So after Wednesday's meet, look out loom, its the bin for you

yep, the loom's a mess alright, after spending 45 mins with the handbrake in my armpit trying to trace a (insert random colour here) wire, we came to the conclusion the loom is scrap - there's a couple of random fried wires in plain view and it pops and sparks for no apparent reason - BIN!!!!
Shouldn't take too long and its got to be well worth the £45 the loom costs not to be electrocuted!