Adventioneering

The Winch arrived, safe and sound. They weren’t kidding, it’s quite heavy. It still has the factory wire rope installed. I am not sure if I’ll swap it out for synthetic or not, I plan to run synthetic on the Husky 10 I am going to replace this one with, but I’m not sure it’s [...]

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Photos With the Winch (108 lbs) being delivered tomorrow, I needed the ‘Disco running in order to bring it home from work. The bumper will be here, radomly, any day. So it was time to get the truck back together! Rather than cut out the good bodywork from the nose panel, I decided to drill [...]

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Photos Victoria has finished stripping and painting the ‘Disco with POR-15 – now all that’s left is for me to do the sheet metal fabrication and grafting tomorrow and it should be all but mended. Woo!

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Photos Discovery has a (thankfully) non structural steel frame supporting aluminum body panels. Much talk is made about how your Discovery won’t rust because its made of aluminum; but as you can readily see, the rust protection is only skin deep. After removing the side panel and battery to get access to cut out the [...]

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The body panel arrived, and is the right part. I definitly see this coming together with a bit of metal work and maybe a tiny bit of fabrication. I hope to start this weekend, with my new 30,000BTU propane heater to keep me warm.

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Photos The powertank has been installed thanks to a handy rubber gripper bracket. And the new tyres are in! I’ll get them installed Saturday. I also ordered a new front chassis assembly, the whole thing, so I can begin repairs of the deer damage finally.

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