well finially made a start on the old girl will be installing rear end first, 4 bar triangulated set up with coil overs and setting up for a nine inch bit of work to do to the tray but overall not to much rust in her

 

paint on and seting up the 9 inch

 

Hey Trev,
It's good to see you back up & posting again! We'd love to do your trip - but through Australia. My wife's never been over that way - she would love it!

Looking good over there! Keep up the momentum!

Ben in Austin
1950 F1

 

thanks Ben if you ever get to Aussie especially Perth let us know and you can stay around home if you want and we can show you some of the good places around here

 

well finally got a couple of sunny days to do a bit to the truck just mocking up the coil overs

 

well after a long break and finishing some other things off finally back into the old pickup, change of plans ended up buying a 1984 XJ6 jag minus motor and gearbox, stripped out the irs and ifs and some other bits i may need and sold the body and rest off for a few bucks more than i paid, got stuck in this weekend and stripped the truck out, cabs ready to come off motor and box ready to come out and started mocking up the irs,

 

Looks good!
Where did you get that column drop bracket? I may want to get one of those if I stick with a newer column.

 

Dave
Column drop bracket was already in the truck when I bought it

 

back home again from work and back into the ole girl have nearly finished the bed frame

Made up some shock mounts to get it rolling
And the fuel tank turned up as well

 

pulled the motor and box stripped out the front end and cut the old mustang 2 cross member and hats out roughly placed the jag front end under the chassis
will work on correct measurements tomorrow and start to fab up the brackets for mounting it in used the same measurements Dave had on his build and works out great thanks to his infomation

 

I see your converting over to right hand drive!

 

Why cut out the mustang 2 to put in the jag suspension?

 

Hey Trev,
Next time plan a trip through Alaska, I love to cruise with ya! Keep on truckin over there in the meantime. Nice thread!

 

Yes Moe going to convert it to right hand drive
avF100 the mustang front end I found cracks in it and we have to use a engineer over here to get a certificate for registration to drive it on the road it was his recommendation to cut it out and re-weld it as the welding was not the best and some had already started to let go so for me it was easier to just install the jag irs
Thanks sere501 was going to come back to the USA this year but don't know if I will get there more likely next year and the plan was to come up around Alaska area and have a good look around

 

Well change of pace today decided to patch some rust in the side panels of the tray, mainly down the bottom where the tray frame riveted to them, did a bit of beating as well just made big dents into little dents need to practice some more, patches welded in don't look to bad few little bits to finish here are the bits i cut out

and new bits welded in