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ETS Drift Ute – Staying up late
You have seen the air jacks in action in my previous post, so what do I do if something fails like an airline? Well I have got that covered, I went to my local Metalland and picked up some heavy wall ...
ETS Drift Ute – Hanging Out
I have some big plans for next Tuesday, it requires taking everything I need to assemble this to a complete car out of the garage and into a large space with a lot of cameras. I originally planned to ...
ETS Drift Ute – The beginning of the end
As I sit here and type this my fingers are hurting, this weekend was good, I had two days to get as far as I could into the road to completion. Today I got out of bed, opened the garage up and wheeled...
ETS Drift Ute – Front on
You may think that because the Hilux is running the build would be coming to an end….. Not so! There are so many little jobs to still complete, one of them was mounting the front bumper. This is...
ETS Drift Ute – 25 Hour Day
Daylight savings ended today so i had an extra hour, i tell you what i made good use of it! I washed then entire chassis down in thinners to remove the rust preventative lanolin, i scrubbed every part...
PS13 – Tubular Suspension
The rose joints and ball joints for the PS13 arrived at my doorstep the other day, so i set about making the arms that will get this rolling again. The rose joints are 3/4 inch (19mm 3/4 UNF 19) QA1 A...
PS13 – That escalated quickly
Tonight i focused on mounting the steering rack, heres what i came up with. After toying with the idea of a chromoly blade adjustable swaybar i said to myself “enough is enough” so im reta...
PS13 – Tube Crossmember
After spending the night on the TIG the crossmember is bolted to the engine mounts and ready to slide under the PS13 Ok its not entirely finished yet, i needed to bolt the motor to it, bolt it in the ...
S13 – Tube Crossmember
Tonight i set aside a few hours to start on the tube crossmember on the PS13, heres what happened! You may have seen the Jig i made a while ago, the jig isnt really needed but if you plan on doing a f...