Volvo 2 - What not another one

[geckoadventure]

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 tuck 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 thinking I would ever own it.

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?

 

[geckoadventure]

21 September 2016

First nights work on it remove the ugly front winch mount

Finished looks nicer already

Removed the passenger seat and cleanup up. The rust becomes apparent.

The pile of scrap metal starts to grow. I'm sure they will make a compact Ford out of this soon.

 

[geckoadventure]

16 October September 2016

Two of us attack the rear tray object is total removal of it over the coming days

3 hours later and 38 cutting wheels are consumed but the sides are removed.

The pile of scrap gets bigger

Peter runs around and takes pics of the inside for me.

 

[geckoadventure]

23 October September 2016

New Makita 7" grinder in hand.

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 ******** big offroad truck 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.

 

[DanCooper]

Subscribed. This is going to be incredible.

 

[ExDementia]

Oooooh yes. Can't wait to see where this goes.

 

[evilfij]

Awesome. Lots of welding needed but a great price! There are a few land rovers in Malaysia running around on C303 axles who have run/helped with the trophy competition.

 

[geckoadventure]

5 November 2016

One day tomorrow is Volvo 1 day.

Collect the boat from the shop have breakfast and 1pm we are ready to cut with the new Plasma cutter

Finally we get the plasma cutter up and running

3.30pm time for home I got the Sultan's birthday bash to attend

2 more cuts and one half of the rear bed comes off.

Final result from todady is a lot of cutting

2 more cuts and one half of the rear bed comes off.

 

[geckoadventure]

13/14 November 2016

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.

 

[PPCLI_Jim]

what about a bigger line to assist in moving the air . after seeing the pics of you i know im a bigger sized person (LOL) and I've run up to this in some shops untill i get the largest size hoze they have . . that or maybe a 4 to 1 ratchet, or weld a socket to the bar extension? man i know its a labor of love but your killing me with your builds. man i wish i could find one of those here in Canada.

 

[geckoadventure]

16 November 2016

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 workshop 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 November 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.

 

[geckoadventure]

what about a bigger line to assist in moving the air . after seeing the pics of you i know im a bigger sized person (LOL) and I've run up to this in some shops untill i get the largest size hoze they have . . that or maybe a 4 to 1 ratchet, or weld a socket to the bar extension? man i know its a labor of love but your killing me with your builds. man i wish i could find one of those here in Canada.

I am considering a BIGGER compressor with 100litres of air instead lol.

Also trying to find a 24mm truck socket then I can use truck bars to undo it. Heat is being tested tonight

 

[geckoadventure]

1 December 2016

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 fa its looking good.

 

[geckoadventure]

3 December 2016

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 heate removed and then cleaneed up and re-atached 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 **** 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