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tractivforce Date registered: Dec 1899 Location: Vehicle(s): | U1700L Restoration Well we have just finished packing up a U1700L (or what was left of it) ready for Transportation from Queensland down to the shop in Sydney. Its a shame that the previous owner stripped it, threw away the cab and tray and left it in the state it is in for the last two years.
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Merz-Ben Extreme Veteran Date registered: Aug 2006 Location: Floyds Knobs, IN 47119 Vehicle(s): 230G, U1200, U1250 DoKa, U1300L, U1500, U1700, 416 Posts: 377 ![]() | RE: U1700L Restoration looks like a good project... now all you need is a cab. Cheers, Ben | ||
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tractivforce Date registered: Dec 1899 Location: Vehicle(s): | RE: U1700L Restoration Well the good news is that today it looks like we have found our cab. We were originally going to get a 1300 cab for it, but today we stumbled across a complete 4-door cab , well complete apart from the seats that is...so a few late night phone calls tonight and hopefully we will secure it. | ||
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Merz-Ben Extreme Veteran Date registered: Aug 2006 Location: Floyds Knobs, IN 47119 Vehicle(s): 230G, U1200, U1250 DoKa, U1300L, U1500, U1700, 416 Posts: 377 ![]() | RE: U1700L Restoration That will make one nice DoKa. I'm envious! ![]() Cheers, Ben | ||
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tractivforce Date registered: Dec 1899 Location: Vehicle(s): | RE: U1700L Restoration Merz-Ben - 5/28/2007 10:47 PM That will make one nice DoKa. I'm envious! ![]() Cheers, Ben Envious about the finished product ![]() ![]() There is a lot of work to be done, but it will be worth it in the end. | ||
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tractivforce Date registered: Dec 1899 Location: Vehicle(s): | RE: U1700L Restoration Update - Well the mog made it to Sydney and was offloaded in the street. So we had to move it from the street to the shed..which while it looked like a tough job turned out to be easy.. Sadly though..the mog has now been towed by a Patrol, winched by a Toyota and dragged by a Hummer ![]() The weekend we spent going over the air lines and the good news is that everything is connected. We hooked it up to a compressor and all the brakes, jake and deadman brakes, lockers etc work.. There is a leak in the power steering box, and one of the portalks, but thats all the leaks we can find. Over the next two weeks we should have the axles and diff's cleaned up and repainted, as well as starting on getting all the brake cylinders etc rebuilt. Edited by tractivforce 6/3/2007 5:49 AM | ||
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BenzDieselTuner Date registered: Dec 1899 Location: Vehicle(s): | Re: U1700L Restoration well, lets see her when she's done........have fun with your project.......... | ||
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tractivforce Date registered: Dec 1899 Location: Vehicle(s): | RE: U1700L Restoration Well we definately have a cab for it now..I think that the cab has had a longer history than the truck though and needs a lot of TLC
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tractivforce Date registered: Dec 1899 Location: Vehicle(s): | RE: U1700L Restoration Some more work done yesterday. We have removed the rear wheels and have the back up on axle stands at the moment. The Right hand side portal was leaking os we needed to have a look at that. It seems to be the portal housing that is leaking and not an internal seal so thats easy to fix. We have new seal kits coming in for thjem anyway so we will replace them all anyway. We got the Sway bar off the back and that is getting blasted and powder coated We are going to replace the exhaust so that was removed with an angle grinder.. A fair bit of Inox penetrating oil was sprayed over vaious fittings and bolts we have to remove, bu so far its been easy, everything is coming apart well and it seems that anti-seaze has been used on most of the makor nuts/bolts. We will get some more pics of the progress, but its coming along well..hopefully we can get it cleaned and the chassis/diffs painted this week. | ||
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tractivforce Date registered: Dec 1899 Location: Vehicle(s): | RE: U1700L Restoration The first parts are coming back from Cleanup and paint. We are using POR-15 to paint the chassis and diffs and the finish is great. If I did not know any better I would say they had been powder coated These are the rear sway bar links, the beer can is to give you an idea of the size.. ![]() The shear size if everything is hard to comprehend and not something we are used to dealing with Edited by tractivforce 6/12/2007 7:12 PM | ||
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Roch207 Expert Date registered: Apr 2006 Location: Palmetto State Vehicle(s): 2005 E320 CDI, 2010 Silverado 2500HD Posts: 3749 ![]() | RE: U1700L Restoration Do they really sell Duff Beer in Australia? Is there a Duff Man? (duffman.jpg) Attachments ---------------- ![]() | ||
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