Luke's 1967 Mk1 Pick-up

[wardy-uk]

There you go Luke pull it over to IT's place and he will finish it for you

[intransit89]

:lol: There you go Luke pull it over to IT's place and he will finish it for you

at my work place iam using a snapon 160 amp what big improvement

but dont recon much to the auto darking masks bloody crap lol

[Luke]

Progress made but no pics sorry i'll get some i promise

got the back disconnected and cut the chassis ready for a complete transplant of the rear chassis ive got

gonna make some inserts to keep the strength at the joints - ive cut the top and the bottom rails at 2 seperate points to make it stronger

[Luke]

todays progress got the 2 chassis offered up but were doing it outside and the rain was putting me off

crappy phone pics but thats all we had

cutting the chassis


removed


notched and new chassis offered up


there is some box sections to go inside the 2 chassis halfs to make the joint strong

[rottie_007]

ive just had to do this to a merc 7.5 at work, had to add 520mm in front of the axle and 650mm on the end, now jsut have to make two bodies demountable to fit it and I can crack on with the next job !.

dont know where you are luke but if ou ever need owt folded im in evesham, you want to pop over with metal I can guillotine and fold it etc.. (max 3mm on guillotine) but can fold up to 10mm

[Luke]

dont know where you are luke but if ou ever need owt folded im in evesham, you want to pop over with metal I can guillotine and fold it etc.. (max 3mm on guillotine) but can fold up to 10mm

cheers mate

Progress today

finished the back all welded on - sorry no pics gone dark by the time we remembered but i'm up there tomorrow so i'll get a few

hopefully tommorrow i'll get all the axle and tank back on and have it all up and running again

then were gonna paint it- be done for christmas

[transitgeoff]

2015

[Luke]

some progress today but i have pics

got the axle and tank all bolted up - cleared the grey van out of the garage and got the pickup in and stu's gonna spray it for me so thats me done just got to fit the front axle with the 6 stud single hubs (if anyone wants a 6 stud twin mk3 disk brake axle then PM me this ones for sale) bit of wiring and should be MOT'd for christmas 2008

pics now here shows the join box section is in between and the holes were pre cut in the outer chassis then filled in - theres 12 holes all together, also the joints welded, i left a 1mm gap all the way round and the overlap is plug welded, it's the 1st chassis joining job ive done and i'm pritty chuffed with it



thought i got some more pics but they are off stus mobile so mabe they will come through later

[MinorMatt]

Looks good Luke, fancy coming over and sorting all my rust out??

[Luke]

Looks good Luke, fancy coming over and sorting all my rust out??

your alright mate - iv'e got enough to keep me busy here

one more pic i found

[rover]

Good work as always mate

You definately have toooooo many projects on the go though

Rover.

[madmark]

nice work mate!
wont this take a 5.63 twin wheel axle ????????

[transitgeoff]

thats another single wheel chassis, thought you might have put a twin wheel chassis on

[nip]

that joint should be well strong done that way top job m8

[Luke]

thats another single wheel chassis, thought you might have put a twin wheel chassis on

we did think about it - even extending it with this as we were origanally going to build a car transporter but now if i'm gonna keep it once its done space is a problem so it's better off as a swb and if i do have to sell it it's more origanal

i would consider putting a tipper back on tho