[suzukikid]

not the best photos ...but ya can see what has been cut...

The front i think is the welded strip back in...


used to have the stock flairs on it but had to take em off cause the swampers where hitting them...So garden edging is a temp fix for now....

the rears is cut peices and all pop revited with a heap of silicone over it....



ill try find a photo of it with all stock flairs on....

[suzukikid]

here is a differnt angle of the front....looking at it is hasnt had much takin out of the rear of the guard....but has the max ya can take....


And with all stock flairs

[hooki]

jonno_racing wrote:

sure pics always help
looks good guys, hooki how much did you take out?

this is what I did on the front. Still needs alot of cleaning up though. I'm not sure how much i ended up taking out.

[KEENSY85]

KEENSY85 wrote:

does any one in bris who can do it like above wana earn some cash and do my front like hooki has done hid

All good I changed my mind thanks guy

[superduki]

I've got that drover front clip in the back yard you can use Phil, for a comparison or to chop or whatever. It's only getting pissed on when I've had too many beers in the workshop

[jonno_racing]

ok so I have decided to cut and fiberglass in the gap. slightly more than welding a pannel in but should come up well. also meens I can take a extra 20mm or so and have a smooth edge
also going to pinch the firewall in..

[foolsp33d]

If you can Phil, take LOTS of pics and do a complete write up... Iv cut my drivers rear at present.. about an inch or so.. yet to decide how to get it to go back into place, but thinking once the vertical reinforcments are removed, delengthened, I should get away with a bit of snip and fold action to get it to follow the upper side of the line.. if that makes sense..

[jonfromhamilton]

I am not a very good fabricator, I am pretty bad, but this is what I did.

with the angle grinder (made a stencil for the other side too.)

used the scissor jack between the stock wheel and the steel from insdie the wheel arch to meet eachother.

stitch welded it every inch or so (as I am not a good enough welder to seem weld it)
using this method I avoided the firewall which probably opened up the inside to the risk of rust so I went to "BODY SHOP" and bought some tacky rust proofing stuff which I sprayed down the hole from the inside.
I sprayed lots of that in hard to get places and haven't had any problems yet (so far so good)
this fits 33's with a 2" body lift and the front axle moved forward 20-30mm.
I used garden edging bolted or screwed up underneath the wheel arch which gives me about 130mm from the body and sikaflex to hide the awful stitch welding.

[31zook]

A little kick in this one due to the battery box


It fitted 36s okay, and the rear was cut the same with only a 50mm bump stop extension

[KEENSY85]

http://i1256.photobucket.com/albums/ii4 ... f19f88.jpg
http://i1256.photobucket.com/albums/ii4 ... c91341.jpg
http://i1256.photobucket.com/albums/ii4 ... ff34bf.jpg


Check these pics out this is were I'm up to with my virtual lift, I'm welding the fresh steel in on Monday on my day off

[reeceh]

Looked good last night mate! Will have to catch up and show me this big hole!

[atari4x4]

nice pussy keensy, don't let steaky see that!

[foolsp33d]

KEENSY85 wrote:

Check these pics out this is were I'm up to with my virtual lift, I'm welding the fresh steel in on Monday on my day off

What are you doing where you cut down the edge of the fire wall? Pics if you please!

[KEENSY85]

foolsp33d wrote:

KEENSY85 wrote:

Check these pics out this is were I'm up to with my virtual lift, I'm welding the fresh steel in on Monday on my day off

What are you doing where you cut down the edge of the fire wall? Pics if you please!

Its still open @ the moment but hopefully Monday on my day off I will have the rear gaurds welded and the fire wall closed up. Iv got to tack some steel in there and mark a spot for a bolt so I can still have a mounting point for the gaurd down on the firewall, attari4x4 thanks for posting my picks up for me. Steaky leave that cat alone

[KEENSY85]

reeceh wrote:

Looked good last night mate! Will have to catch up and show me this big hole!

Yer man the bog hole will be ready soon (the rains coming) and there is a car wash down the road know and fuel. Bring a rope though the hilux and landcruser guys get boged down there

[reeceh]

I've got a winch!!

[KEENSY85]

awesome

[shakes]

Some starters....

http://www2.izook.com/?page_id=460

search.php?keywords=virtual+lift&terms=all&author=&sc=1&sf=all&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search

http://auszookers.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... &start=240

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=22273


and courtesy of canberra mav -





And dig through some of sierrajims and gwagensteve's builds and you will find a heap more photo's too. If I find my old favourites I had some more links as well.

[KEENSY85]

http://i1256.photobucket.com/albums/ii4 ... 79bca2.jpg
this all welded with no filler just spray bog primer

http://i1256.photobucket.com/albums/ii4 ... 3fcd92.jpg
the inside painted.

i welded the inside of the rim instead of the outside were i could it ment i hardly had to grind the out side at all.

http://i1256.photobucket.com/albums/ii4 ... 497c47.jpg
the weld looks realy rough from there but thats just some i havnt groundoff i welded from the top and the pentration looked a bit rough.


the other side i will take my step by step pics

[douglasgiersch]

Keensy85 Looks prety smick mate really kicking my self i didnt attempt chop before i painted the underside of wheel arches, still contemplating it but.

[KEENSY85]

Thanks mate its slowly comeing allong a lot easer then I thought .welding it from the inside worked really well. Just gota get that panel flat again.

[JrZook]

Guard tech ripped from my build thread back when guard chops were not that popular

The guard was cut to the bottom of the factory 'pressed' arch, getting rid of all the rust in the guard seam.

Front was also done!



The inside view of the drivers rear guard, that support was a bit of a mongrel to cut through (rolled edges) so we just oxy'd it thru.

Did exactly the same to the passengers rear and then started cutting and bending the filling plates. Used about 6-8 different sections per guard of 0.6mm zinc coated steel (same thickness as most of the zuk body panels). All of these segments were 'butt' welded together with the oxy, therefore no double panels and hence no where for moisture to hide and rust to form!
Nearly complete

And done!

Completed passenger inside

[rustyzook]

you said you didnt want to spend money.

this will take 35's with room.

[KEENSY85]

^^^^^^^ MORE PICS that looks interesting

[rustyzook]

not much more to show atm, work has been put on pause resulting in all my projects freezing or being sold.

looks awesome tho

[KEENSY85]

So what's the plan

[rustyzook]

vit 1.6 and auto, modded transfer feeding a sierra with 6.5,s
mq patrol diffs
coils in rear front is undecided
lots of bar work

its going to be trailer of course

[KEENSY85]

More pics

[zukmeista]

Look what crawled back in...

[atari4x4]

looks good, hows the cat?