Painting my Rangie

Joined: 20 Apr 2007 Location: Basin Melb

Yep. That was me. Had last week off. I was on my way to the powder coater to check on the progress. Or lack of it.

Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Location: melton victoria

MATE LOOKS AWESOME LOVE THE COLOUR THAT ONE SICK TRUCK

IF THAT IS SUPERCHEAP PAINT THEN YOU MAKE IT LOOK GOOD

TOP STUFF IM JEALOUSE

NA LOOKS GOOD HAVE FUN

CHEERS DAVE Razz

Joined: 24 May 2004 Location: south eastern melbourne

Looking good brad!

the Jaffa has come up sweet (pardon the pun)

Grant.

Joined: 04 Apr 2008 Location: West Victoria

Boggerbrad37

Nice paint job

Can you take a pic of where you put the cage through the dash?

I want to put a cage in mine but need ideas of where to run it, did you build it yourself?

Is the dash pod home made as well?

What is that above the cb?

tia

Joined: 20 Apr 2007 Location: Basin Melb

The roll bar goes through the air vent holes. I made the roll bar and the dash pod. The thing above the cb is the CD player. No room in the normal spot when the roll bar went in.
Finally got the wheels back from powder coating. They look great.

Had To replace the heads this week. They blew the gasket between no 2 and no 4. Gas has been to lean. Took the gas off. I needed to spend about 1000 bucks on it to bring it up to scratch. Do not drive it every day now. Had a go at match porting the heads and manifold, see if it has made any noticable differance when its going.

Joined: 20 Apr 2007 Location: Basin Melb

Finally got the wheels on. I will get some better shots soon.

Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Location: Melbourne

That looks awesome.Great work!

Joined: 18 Apr 2006

Starting to look very bling mate you wont want to bash it up next time we go out cheers Deano.

Joined: 20 Apr 2007 Location: Basin Melb

Hi mate. Already got some scratches on it on the weekend. Hanging to get out and use it properly. Spent so much time working on it. It's about time to use it.

Joined: 20 Apr 2007 Location: Basin Melb

A couple more shots in better light.

Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Location: Wakerley, Brisbane

really like that rear bar mate...feel like making another? I currently have the arb bar on the back with a spare wheel carrier and it is huge compared to yours.

Cheers

Andrew

Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Location: New Zealand

Very cool. Cool

Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Location: brisvagas

man shes a bea Twisted Evil

st brad

Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Location: brisvagas

love the 'rockhammer orange' Very Happy

Joined: 06 Sep 2005 Location: Melbourne

That colour changes so much in the light braddy, when you dropped past work the other week it looked more red than anything, in those photos it actually looks like the orange its supposed to for once!

Joined: 20 Apr 2007 Location: Basin Melb

Thanks for everyones comments. 86MUD i have spent most of my nights this year in the garage working on my car and my brother in laws rangie. Need some time to get to know my kids again. If you are interested in doing something in a month or so let me know.
Cheers Brad.

Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Location: Wakerley, Brisbane

Sounds familiar...I have two little kids which are hardly get to see...which doesn't leave much time to play on my truck so I know how you feel. I'll let you know if I can't find time to make one myself.

Once quick question. Did you use a trailer stub axle for the swing arm? How did you ensure there was enough strength welding the stub axle to the rhs?

Cheers

Andrew

Joined: 20 Apr 2007 Location: Basin Melb

On mine it has a socket in the bar(Round tube with a flange at the top) the swing away part has a shaft that fits inside the socket. On my brother in laws i used a trailer hab assembly. Sat the stub axle part in the join (corner) of the rhs and welded a bead down each side. Then cut another peice of rhs on 45's and butted it up to the stub axle and rhs. So made a triangle out of rhs with the stub axle in the middle. Also has two braces on the wheel side to the chassis and one on the Lhs. If you use a trailer hub you need to put lights on the bar. Here is a pic of the last one i made.

Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Location: Wakerley, Brisbane

Thanks Brad

Perfect pictures

Cheers

Andrew

Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Location: Melbourne

Very nice mate!!! I'm impressed. I think i might respray my truck the same color!

Nick

Joined: 21 Feb 2007 Location: Sydney

Brad,
that is EASILY THE BEST (& toughest) rangie i have seen to date.

Cool

Joined: 14 Aug 2007 Location: Hobart, Australia

Great build up, very nice indeed. Most people just slap something together, but its good to see this is a clean and professional job.

I do have one query tho... did you make up your own body lift spacers too? That pic showig the underside of the rear bar and carrier shows a square block.

Cheers,

Joined: 20 Apr 2007 Location: Basin Melb

Yes the body blocks where made by me. The square ones are steel on the blue car and mine are made from 70 mil round alloy.

Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Location: Kings Park, NSW

Looks amazing mate, great job!!

Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 9:16 pm

boggerbrad37 wrote:

A couple more shots in better light.

SWEET!!. A Yota just never looks as tough. Very Happy

Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 9:56 pm

you compare that to a yota! shame on you! go sit in a corner! cussing

Joined: 21 May 2008 Location: Coffs Harbour, Australia

Hi Brad,

very very nice Rangie!

What Flares are you using? That are not this ones from LRA or?

Greeting
Chris

Joined: 20 Apr 2007 Location: Basin Melb

They are LRA ones. I used 25x25 square rubber to space them out. just used a longer screw through the normal flare hole.

Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 9:50 pm

mickrangie wrote:

you compare that to a yota! shame on you! go sit in a corner! cussing

Ok.I've said 15 Hail Rangies and 2 virgin freelanders, am i forgiven yet?

Joined: 06 Sep 2005 Location: Melbourne

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Ok.I've said 15 Hail Rangies and 2 virgin freelanders, am i forgiven yet?

No, you just dug a deeper hole by mentioning freeloaders Twisted Evil