Ulysses

Truggy it! Honestly it is the future!

Chopped that horrible back floor out today...





Doesn't look as bad as expected under it but the bottom of the bit below the rear door (rear body mount area) is gone.

So... stripped out the rest of the rear and headlining, masking tape up for tray back :evil:

Gonna have a beer and look at the masking tape for the rest of tonight to think it over

No eBay APP ID and/or Cert ID defined in Kunena configurationWell MR ANGRY :evil: the angle grinder has got through quite a few discs today (ran out actually so early finish and shower time).





Bit more to cut off yet but wanted to go at it a bit at a time to allow for cockups. Thinking of reattaching the rear door surround to close it up so have chopped it a bit, again more to do. Should end up looking the same, but 2ft shorter and without the side windows (hopefully)!





Some sort of roll cage or internal roll bar is going to be needed. What little strength the roof had is now totally gone. I also need to source a tool to make a edge to join the two halves together. This is done with a 'Flange tool' or 'Joggler', Something like this:



This will (hopefully) allow one bit to slot inside the other for a stronger joint, then spot weld together. I was looking at the roof and there is the drainage channel with the black plastic trim in it. I couldnt work out what to do with that to still keep the drain, unless its just a case of close it off and make sure you park with the nose downhill on rainy days to drain to the windscreen end :laugh:

Whoa....you're getting stuck in Rich!

Roof will be strengthened at the time you reattach the rear panel.....edge setter will ruin your panel on the curve....beware.

I trimmed the 3 skins to be planar (level) and made a 16G panel with holes to tie all 3 together.....stronger than the original.




The straight line and lack of closure at the rear lower section of the cab is something I've never liked.....plastic trim?

Cheated on the roof....welded a panel in.

Hi Kiethy, yes thats the look I'm trying to achieve with the cab back. I thought of butt jointing the curved bits and staggering the flatter sections to use the flange tool for that bit.

For the bottom bit i was thinking of making some plates to patch in. Depends how big a hole to fill. maybe fibreglass, time will tell. A fair bit off that yet tho!

Thinking about some sort of roll cage to strengthen my inept welding. Theres someone on ebay that will bend to order some pretty heavy tubing