Sunday 11 March 2012

Major Surgery

The work has begun. Truck went into the workshop just after christmas and has been in there since. We have almost finished the exterior, with just the panneling, painting and windows to go.




Removing the old luton.




Same walls as above but in the process of being shortened. Note the lack of support in the centre.

Roof cut back to start of new luton.

New bathroom and bedroom windows.

The cab now tilts, it was not able to before but it will be possible with our new design.

How the original windows were installed, no framing what so ever, cut a hole and glue it in.

New framing around crawl -through opening.


Rust

Rust


Removing the rust tok a while

Corner of windscreen with first thin bog.

Fixed

Alot of steel and work went into this.

Dan welding the floor frame of new luton
Bottom half of frame in place.

Bottom frame


Frame almost done.
Frame done, cab filler primed


Cab with primer
Aluminium going on.

Roof

More aluminium

Rear of roof, thinking of putting a solar panel on the slope.
I have also been doing alot of other things that I dont have photos of. I made a fiberglass panel from a mold I made for the top of the crawlthrough. Removed the old rusty roof vents from the cab and fibreglassed closed. Mounted water tank and finished locker frames. Alot more to do so more photos to come.