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Today going on with the electric
Straightening the brush guard
Metal of the troop seats alsor ready for primer
Finally got today also a quotation for the oak
As it is not an usual measurement in europe needed it a special order but it is of course available.
Just needed to find a...
Time to change the wheels for "winter-season" on our famely cars
started to disamble the troopseats
88 screws but only 12 stuck and need to be flexed
new screws in stainless steel are ordered
just looking now for a good source for oak panels
Should be not a problem any carpenter should be...
what you see there now was going on here years ago. To expensive to less customer who want pay for it additional the law which need for a lot of things an authority approval of safety not only for vehicles
We have here the same problem beside here are only less customizing shops for vehicles. I am working in metalbranch and machine engineering. Unfortunately my employer dont use any tube bending machine otherwise i had done that about my employer. The steel tubes are still useable. It need only...
It's really incredible, Germany is a customizing desert.... I'm looking for weeks for a workshop that makes me stainless steel exhaust tubes after original template. Stainless steel mufflers are available, but the tubes are not. It needed a Mandrel tube bending machine also just a tube bending...
Such solid brushguards are today not more allow in germany of the high injury danger in collision.
Fortunately it is licenced 25 years ago build in our own metalshop. So it stays until he will be wrecked what never happen as long we are alive :)
He will also got rocksliders but this must wait...
We must hurry up as it will be soon to cold to paint and we need to heat the shop - something we want prevent
As we leave the shop after 10 hours all was still wet but done 💪
The Finish of the Raptorliner on the box is great, so that we use it also in the cab
Checked the dry Raptorliner
Looks now pretty good and the structure is not that rough as it seems to be by applying
So minimum for a M1008 are 6 bottles for cargobox and tailgate
Today our Truck-Cover arrived
Since he is still without an engine and I really have no desire to workout pushing the unwilling part in and out when we work in the shop must be a cover over it when he is inside.
I don't know how they always want to get the stuff back in the cover.
We have the...
Well a 4 Bottle Set is not enough for our M1008. Seems to be not an average Size from him as advertisment said 4 bottles engough for an average Cargobox. Maybe they measure by an
we need all 5 bottles alone on the box without the tailgate....
First round needed 3 bottles and was not covering...
Next weekend will be a pitch-black weekend
4 bottles for the cargobox should be enough, but since this is only approximate, we ordered one more bottle.
There is still another truck waiting to be finished if we have rests.
Our son was bored during a phone call and already worked on the...
He got his original Color back 💪 also if we had our problems...
all work fine until the next day where we done the finish with matt clear
Also if we follow complete the instruction we had spots from the matt clear paint in it
about the instructions could these happen if you not follow the...
We are very carefully in replacements of original parts.
Fortunately it is not our first rebuild and not our first US Car.
We also made our expierience in that field in our youth long ago as we dont want listen to wise people
re-cored or rebuild of core or cooler is not more common in germany.
It is hard to find one who do this anymore
The complete paint coming up from militaerlacke.de
US Army paint
we used
383 Green
Black
and additional their other products as all matched to each other which simplifies...