This is from when I first picked her up and had a drive
After having a drive I began pulling all the rubbish and blowing the dirt and dust out before I could even begin dissembling her.
Once it was cleaned out I pulled the tub off and traded it to fellow member who is going to put it to more use then I would've as I had no intention on having a tub ute. Out of the trade I got myself a pto winch which to me is more useful.
The winch it's self had broken mounts and required some love.
After removing the tub I then loaded my ute onto our truck and took into a workshop where myself and my old man began working on removing the body and later engine.
At my grandparents farm I picked up a old Isuzu 3.9L 4cylinder diesel. Although I took away the original p40 engine I was still attracted to that 3speed gearbox just for how unique it is, so this required me to build a rather simple adapter plate which I bolted to the engine and then bolted the gear box to it. Inside I used a combination the Isuzus fly wheel with the p40's clutch this adaption was really simple. After lining it all up we bolted it together we searched for a turbo and luckily enough knowing the right guy we got our hands on a old excavator which had the same Isuzu motor. So managed to pick a turbo,rather large sump a exhaust manifold and some other Nic nacs. After assembling all the new goodies I gave it all a fresh coat of paint to match the original bluey colour.
Placing the engine onto the chassis only required moving the front mount back and a small adjustment inwards for it to all fit nicely, once he engine was in with the gear box we decided to put the cab back on seeing how it all fit. And it was just about perfect minus the turbo just touching the passengers foot well this required only minor modifications to allow it to fit. While the cab was on I went hunting for some seats to replace the old ones. From a wreckers I found some very nice leather seats for $80, for the two.
During the time of fitting the engine and the chairs we worked on fixing the rust which didn't take much only two small holes in the botto of each door, a hold from a spot light in my roof and a little strip down the back of my gutter which wasn't as much a hole but the rust need to be removed to prevent further problems down the track.
Choosing the paint for my car I went for the orginal ivory whitey colour before painting the cab I sanblasted it and primed it with high Quilty zinc primer to hopefully prevent any future rust.
whe painting the cab we also stripped down the chassis, sand blasted it and gave it a coat of a black chassis paint.
Adding some extra things I made up
The stainless steel exhaust and alloy battery box
120L alloy fuel tank
Roof centre console with radio, speakers and my two way
And the Snorkel
It's now May and I've been re assembling everything putting new rubbers for everything in
Made new floor mats
And finally today just under 6months from when I first got the G60 I finally started it and took it for a quick spin testing it all out. It started first turn of the key and it ran smooth for the next hour of myself driving it around it was definitely a great feeling.
However it's not the end the car still needs its tray and bar work built along with the bull bar
During its stage now I've been testing and fitting some 35's but that's all down the track.
Hope you guys have enjoyed my right up and hopefully the pictures have worked
I'm happy to answer any questions about the vehicle and I'll hopefully be updating this post soon with how the tray and bar work is coming along.
And for your interest I have built every thing for the vehicle myself with the quidence of my old man I hope you guys like it



