Ok so while rebuilding the Volvo I got the idea to restore another and do it faster this time and do the work myself where posible.
Volvo's here for sale are few and far between.
Suddenly we had one for $70,000rm(15,000EU) "restored" looked terrible. Then one popped up for 16,000rm (3,000EU) I rung and got an appointment. To my surprise when I viewed it he had turned down offers for the truck as people only wanted the axles.
I made an offer showed him pics of Volvo 1 and he said SOLD.
So this is the story of a secret build (my wife has no idea) until I finish it.
It will not be a expedition truck but i'm leaving it here as there is no forum suitable on this site for it's eventual style.
Pickup condition
It's ROUGH I know the tourist resort it ran out of and saw it being abused never thinkin I would ever own it.
2 September 2016
Collection Day
Right rear cross member is ripped of the chassis. Left side is bent.
It seats 12 people.
It's nice side
The wheels turn
Looks better in the setting sun in my friends private ship salvage workshop or does it?
Commence to cut the bed up. A plasma cutter arrives Tuesday
2 hours I got this far.
Then I got a process going and 4 hours I had the left side removed.
The pile of scrap grows
So what is the plan.
Since Volvo 1 is 2 hours away I am planning to work on Volvo 2 at night after work until I finish Volvo 1.
This is the idea so far:
- Bad Arse big offroad tuck like they have never seen in Malaysia
- Rugged shopping trolley to go to expensive malls and jockey park it beside the farking porches ferraris's and Bentley's if you think I'm joking I'm not lol.
- Toss the rear tray steel round tube tray with alloy tray and slightly chopped.
- Full restore of cabin covered in a comp spec rollcage - think Dakar truck - Rahmat from Rahmat playhouse garage is already crying after seeing the pics
- 2 winches probably 8274's
- fix missing section of right rear chassis
- Bob the rear chassis 12inches
- Rear mounted radiator and intercooler etc
- Air suspension and if I can get past road transport a-frame suspension
- 2 sets of doors one with windows chopped off other full doors (handbag days out with wife).
- fit race harness seats and belts
- Engine possibly 15B-T (4.1 litre 4 cyl diesel) and Toyota auto gearbox and that will be it one big fun offroad truck that I may use in comp to show because I CAN lol
- Air suspension kit has been ordered and the air guy came around to look at the truck.
- Rollcage made in IPOH rest done in KL at a workshop near work or home.
Sounds like a great plan. I hope you get it done faster than the expedition rig. I've been following your build for ages.
If you're not tired yet of throwing money at Volvo's you might want to check out the disc brake conversions for Volvo portal axles these guys do: Kurzbesuch in Rumänien – Volvo Scheibenbremsumbau | gelPlog | tigerbus.de
I've heard good things about them, but the price tag is certainly not for the faint hearted.
Hope to see pictures of it at the mall parking lot next to a Porsche Cayenne real soon
Local Disc brake conversion is one using Toyota Landcruiser II front discs all roundd and costs us $5000rm (or about $1200USD . Their is somewhere in excss of $40,000rm for us or 10,000USD or more- sigh. Local wins.
Evening shift. The workshop is only 8k from the office, beats the 190k to IPOH every weekend. No the wife still does not know.
However tonight i've come straight from Ipoh (190k+26k) to the workshop via dinner where I witnessed a stupid motor bike accident across the road from dinner when the motor bike ended under the night market stall afer a car turned right in front of it hilarious stuff.
9pm I'm in the workshop
Awesome 2 cuts and a big chunk of the rear comes off later I find it's a 35kg chunk lol.
Midnite cutoff time and wait the 30 mins to see if any fires etc are starting and look at progress
Yeah it look pretty good
One more night of cutting and I can take it all to the scrap shop.
Still I cannot remove the wheel nuts fom the flat tire. I snap a breaker bar using a 6 foot pipe to assist me. The air rattle gun will not move the nuts either. I need a bigger compressor damn.
Still I cannot remove the wheel nuts fom the flat tire. I snap a breaker bar using a 6 foot pipe to assist me. The air rattle gun will not move the nuts either. I need a bigger compressor damn.
Night shift dinner with wife then cruise off to work on Volvo 2
This is my goal tonight cut the remainder of the rear tray off.
By 11.30pm it's done
The pile of scrap steel has stopped growing
17 November 2016
Visit the workhop where the rollcage will be created. Oh my my mates Pinzgauer is also there getting its makeover so I eventually leave 8pm afer a 2+ hour visit. My rollcage design gets the thumbs up.
18 Nvember 2016
Friday night I load up almost all the steel (turns out 260kg) into the trusty Isuzu then 10.15pm arrive at hospital to pickup my mates "wife" and take her out for dinner after she got kicked out of ICU 10:05pm so I can get the low down on his bad operation.
So I realise he is going to have trouble running his workshop after so a set of car ramps and a lie on trolley etc are being organised to be delivered to his workshop before he goes back to work in 4 weeks.
Original not keeping. Looking at a Supra 2JZ with Auto and or a Toyota 13B-T diesel modified to hell like my current Red Toyota (14B-T Fuel pump, timing gear, Supra turbo internals (VNT conversion if can find) , front mount intercooler, 21 psi boost) , yes it has grunt lol.
Had some free time tonight so decided to try and remove the flat tire and starrt removing the wiring loom or do the rollcage.
So first task get this flat tyre off finally. Heat 3 minutes one side of the nut and then about 60 seconds on the other whack the breaker bar with the Russian 4lb screw driver a couple of times and hey presto I had a result.
I decided it was late so started on the rollcage template and see how the sketch looks like in full size. I will finish it all off on Saturday so far its looking good.
Had a few hours after the Kids CSR day at work so off to the Volvo with the repaired tire.
Started pulling the wiring loom while the light was good this truck is just full of surprises rodent nest inside the dash sigh. I'm still expecting a snake to slither out.
The rodent nest
Finally got the tire back on after cleaning up the ends of the studs with a cutting wheel to emove the burrs etc. Cheeck the other wheels all te same need to be heated and removed and then cleaned up and re-attached sigh
need another 2 butane bottles lol.
4 December 2016 Sunday
Told wife going to help someone on a PINZ lol. Headed over and started on the removal of the wiring loom and
everything from the dash.
By the end of the day I have removed the dash panel and labeled the wire ends.
The brake/clutch pedal braket sigh its been bent by someone over pushing on the brakes HARD and rewelded
what a mess. Need to strip it off repair, remove rust and the ugly chicken shit welding reweld, and
repaint.
Still trying to figure how I will get a 36 year old wiring loom out of the fire wall. I think I will have to
cut it and label every wire sigh.
Worked on the PVC rollcage then time for home as the whole of next week is on Volvo 1
Told wife going to help someone on a PINZ lol. Headed over and started on the removal of the wiring loom and everything from the dash.
By the end of the day I have removed the dash panel and labeled the wire ends.
The brake/clutch pedal braket sigh its been bent by someone over pushing on the brakes HARD and rewelded what a mess. Need to strip it off repair, remove rust and the ugly chicken shit welding reweld, and repaint.
Still trying to figure how I will get a 36 year old wiring loom out of the fire wall. I think I will have to cut it and label every wire sigh.
Worked on the PVC rollcage then time for home as the whole of next week is on Volvo 1
The tow truck picked it up from the current secret location.
Then it was ready to transport to the next stage of it's transformation into BADASS.
Then it arrived at the panel shop. So shocked they were they locked the doors lol.
Daylight inspection shows the damage.
Right rear cross member missing. Middle Bent from a bad recovery the wire and the left side also BENT. It will be cut off and replaced by me later at the RACE shop.
The inside is a mess floors non existant.
Front is pretty bashed up as is the top of the cabin.
However, Rahmat says all fixable and I'm welcome to come down when they start and work on the truck also.
It's now in the queue in the workshop Stage 2 will commence when they finish the current jaloppies,
Currently investigating the ORI shocks and TJ leading/traling arms and the associated costs. Looks cheap in USD then I have to multiply by 4. to get to our currency - OMG.
On top of that is the Orphangage Kayaking challenge now in AUgust it takes up one night and 1 day a weekend minimum.
I don't have much free time at present especially after being on sick leave for 5 weeks lol.
One day im going to go through my diary and work out how many hours I spent driving. We know iv'e done about 65,000k's driving up and down to IPH and back. That does not include the HILUX (one trip that was bad these things have no power), My red 13/14B-T hybrid jungle monster which you cannot hear the stereo from above 80kph lol and the Blue handbag 1KZ Landcruiser.
Yes the cost has been huge 65,000k at 10k a litre is 6500 litres alone so at $2rm a litre thats 13,000rm or 4,000USD, cheap hotel bills etc also huge cost. 100trips on the highway is $46 per trip. $4600 or $1,000USD. Ooops im going to stop counting money sigh.
However progress on Volvo 2 has slowed a little. The panel shop stopped work for RAYA and took 2 weeks off however now during the tail end of his holiday way up north his wife dropped the baby and it's now in ICU so the Volvo 2 sits there in an unknown state with poor Rahmat not earning any loot while he waits for nature and the doctors to get his new baby out of ICU.
Never mind it will all work out. I still hope to have it completed around XMAS time.
Even better the new workshop it will be getting the Rollcage etc is moving to a new location which even has its own painting booth so I can do everything in the one place.
They asked me to go down visit Volvo 2 as they had made progress and cabin not long from being separated from chassis.
Took them lunch also. THis is the first view I got neat Rhamat and crew working on it.
Bracing on the inside some work had been done on the front sides to pull the panels out to make them all flush again.
The rear view nothing to see here.
Inside view then the cheeky workshop cat decided I had food and started to investigate next time I will take him food. YUp the floor is rotten and are some of the interior panels.
Rahmat starts dreaming when its all finished I can go for a ride in it - maybe - lol
Yup its uite messy inside
Drivers floor is non existant. I have given them a plan to follow to make it easy to restore.
I like it.
Now the plan.
Next week late the cabin comes off. I take the chasssis to the workshop and we start work on the rollcage and the new rear tray. Will make a decision in the engine and gearbox. Once all done then the suspension and be done and by that time the cabin should be ready to be reinstalled (XMAS) just like a real car manufacturing production line lol.
So Saturday visit to Volvo 2. Clean the truck then see what else can be done. Clean out all the putty from the cabin join and see all the rust in the joint area sigh such a negelected Volvo. I remove the side windows and finally the cabin strip is completed.
Out comes the pressure washer and it just blasts holes in the rust in the cabin. The chassis is fine and all the years of mud get washed off. No other issues with the chassis found apart from the rear cross member issue.
OMG the pressure washer just disintergrated the floor.
So after the wash we decide to see how bad the rsut is and any repairs have been done. We heat the paint and peel off sections to see where the damage is we find a TREE hit with a poor repair above and below the grill resulting in rust underneath which means bith sections need to be replaced. The quality of the old repair work is well shonkey to say the least.
End of the day its hometime all I have is a pile of peeled off bodyfiller and paint on the floor and the tar seal from the inner floor with about 30% left still to stripp out.
From here on its all posative as they can finally start the rust removal surgery.
Went and called in at the other workshop had dinner with the them and they will store the VOlvo chassis in the new paint shop until their workshop relocastion is completed. Anyway we have a plan we can execute.
Yes im not turning it into a wooden wonder mosquito lol.
Chassis and cabin will be in 2 separate workshops by Saturday provided the new KL workshop completes the concreting and the security fence for theiir relocation..
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