1989 subaru pickup (Big Brat) New Top

[stefan]

well this was delivered to my house on the 30th of december, I got it of this very forum, thanks mdw.

first job was to get it started






So new battery and plugs, clean the dizzy cap and se fired up strait away, then did the rear brake light bulb.

That was it for the 31st

So into the workshop on the 2nd

Front end up in the air

engine crane rigged up and pipes and wires disconected or losened


front sub frames unbolted and engine lowered


Blocks fitted between subframes and chassis rails


two subframes on the front both needed unbolting and dropping along with the engine and box

then back end up in the air ready to drop the rear beam


Blocks between rear beam and body


Strut extender boxes


that was that for the 2nd of Jan

[Mystery Machine]

AWESOME! Bookmarked....I can't wait to see how this unfolds.

Please tell me you're going to cap/close in one side of each lift block with reasonably thick steel? I can see they are already in thick steel, but over that length, with the forces/leverage going through them I personally would want something that's not going to collapse?

That aside, did I mention how excited I am to see this? ;D

[willowandmikey]

Ooohhh can't wait to see how it turns out

[smurph323]

Jan 5, 2013 14:01:11 GMT Mystery Machine said:

AWESOME! Bookmarked....I can't wait to see how this unfolds.

+1

[Soopahfly]

I know where there will be a 22ej coming up soon as a donor vehicle?

[stefan]

Next update when I have uploaded the photos

The 6mm wall drop boxes will be braced to each other with 50mm box with a 4mm wall so they will not be going anywhere when done

[micrat]

Awesome its going to be a real life tamiya brat!!!

[stefan]

22ej motor sounds good to me soopahfly keep me informed.

It may look a bit like a Tamiya Brat but with more rust

ok so onto the 3rd of jan

Started by lowering the brake hose clamp and makeing a extender brake pipe.

and fitted extended flexis at the back for some unknown car, went to the motor factors with a tape mesure but do have box with part number on.

steering colum and top engine steady extended


diff rear support drop plat in 5mm steel welded to old diff bar


New wheels and tyres



31/10.5/15s on deep dish 15x8 wheels

need to convert the car from four stud to six, push out 2 oposing studs and bolt the drum to the wheel


Then use the wheel as a jig to drill the drum. Repeat on the other rear drum and on the front hubs


drop the rear damper mounts, dampers look bad but work very well, will look for some new ones soon. drilled new mounts through to the bed


other than that we only welded the rear cross member, sill ends and the rear inner wheel arches that day.

[stefan]

So onto the 4th

Fitted the wheels





as you can see the front wheels have alot of positive camber so most of the day was spent altering the strut spacers but also the front cross member was welded at each end and extended hooks were made for the exhaust hangers

[Colin]

This is going to be awesome, are you going to keep the body ratty looking?

[Soopahfly]

Jan 5, 2013 14:54:38 GMT stefan said:

22ej motor sounds good to me soopahfly keep me informed.

It's a whole car, 107k on the clock, leather interior, recent cambelt, ch clutand stainless exhaust. New lambda sensor in the exhaust (Bosch).
Oil leak from a halfshaft seal, but not major.
Could probably do with the flywheel skimming, as it still has a judder occasionally.
I have a new set of rocker gaskets, as there is a slight weep, but never got round to fitting it.

Will be after about £500 for the thing if you're interested.
Ready to be jumped in and driven away.

[stefan]

so up to today

trimed up the arches for the wheels so that I could get some steering lock on





front wheels still have a few degrees of positive camber but it is only a few degrees now.

Also cut bac and welded the A pillers for clearance and did some welding on the cab floor. Gear lever adjusted and 4x4 selector lever mecanisam made up. horn fixed, new wipers, extended servo vacum hose, new engine earth and wipers fitted.

It has moved under its own steam again after the lift as we needed to move it out of the way.

[akku]

heh heh, I need to pop by and have a look at this

[xjlee]

Oh man this is awesome!
Will the diffs need a re-gear as you've gone up so much in wheel size?
Awesome

[stefan]

It tended to rev its conkers of as standard now it takes a few revs to get going but it is not to bad.

Alister it will be MOT'ed next saturday so will be a at Feb limes cafe meet, just did not have enough hours to get it ready for the Mot today like I hoped. You can always come over next weekend if you like

[mdw]

I'm loving this, looks a bit differnet now to when i delivered it!!!
Keep the updates coming!

[Infectus-Guy]

Cracking project! Reminds me of Tamiya's "Mud Blaster" RC car too! May i make a suggestion on arch extensions? These might look pretty slick and at £80 a set posted sound like a steal, trying to find an excuse to buy some myself!

retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=pfsw&action=display&thread=66146

Guy

[stefan]

mdw yes mate it looks a little diffrent now than it did, had alot of work gone into it though.

Would love arches like that but they are only 600mm wide across the bottom for the style 2's that is about 24", my tyres are 31" and the base of the arches are about 32", about 800mm and I do not think they will have that much strech.

[stefan]

A very small amount of welding has been done in the drivers foot well today so still a little progress

[mad7shark]

super ti je kanta, imas pm