235/85-16 on Stock Suspension, No Body Lift & All Original Panels

Once tha chassis had tried from its jet washing I treated it to some internal rust protection.
I read the reviews and the only repeat complaint I saw about the stuff I wanted was the plastic spray tube was always kinked & split in the middle of the 36" tube. But they were old reviews im sure they'd change the tube or packaging by the time I ordered so as not to have the same problem. Nope. Kinked and split the later I didn't see until I started spraying. By then the tube was all oily and duct tape wouldn't stick to it. (Oh well twice the spray coating.)

 
 

With the inside of the chassis rust protected it was time to move onto the ends in preparation for the front and rear bumpers sourced from aliexpress (China) seen here in their boxes. 

The partial extent of my hoard preparation with extra bits & bobs.

Time to open the big boxes..smaller box first.
The front.

 




I'm not alone in not knowing what these parts were for. 


Didn't bother fitting the crush cans. It's not as if we could see any use for them. Infact I think they would need to be cut off.

No instructions!!!

Time for those childhood years of playing with mechano to pay off.

Dean decided it was best to see what would be needed to add onto the chassis first so we offered upp the lower mounts which kind of aligned.

 









Fitted the center section & swung it top into place after reinforcing the top & sides of the chassis ends

Time to put the main bumper on.
this is where it got frustrating.... really frustrating.
The bumper just wouldn't line up. It was too far forward but the centre section it was coming off was right because the the chassis brackets it was mounted on were right..
There was 1" up & down adjustment and 1" forwards & backwsrds but it wasn't enough. The whole back edge was hitting the lower slam panel.
 

This was the area where this "bolt-on" kit was hitting, we just didn't know why.E also couldn't figure out why the bumper lined up slightly better on the cars right than left. 
 





Almost a 1" wide strip was taken off


And the fit was closer.



Dreaming of 235s


Even fitted some fog lights I found on ebay that kind of matched the headlights.