Lotta work just for the sake of putting a light on the same level as all the others on that side.
But it does mean two things:
Firstly, I can clean and paint a lot of stuff that I couldn't get to before:
Secondly, doesn't this look good?
I've done a lot of measuring, I'm pretty sure that I have room for that locker to fit back in and that I've drilled the holes in the right place to move it over where I need it to be; but proof of the pudding, and all that.
Side note: That locker is quite heavy.
grenanderson
Years ago, in a previous life, I worked briefly for a bloke that bought and sold ex military stuff. Mainly Land-Rovers, and he was a total crook (although that’s a story in itself), but we had several Bedford MK and MJ trucks, and I was tasked one day with taking the lockers off of one of them as the customer wanted to fit long range water and diesel tanks… they looked identical to those and I can confirm that they were way heavier than I expected them to be! 🤣I am now one 90° elbow, and a merge, away from having both headers done. The front one is complete, though, so I'm pretty confident I can start putting the radiator back in; because it doesn't block any of the other stuff I still need to do. Along with the elbow, I also have another 2" flexi on the way so that I can hopefully do the Y-pipe in the same swell foop as finishing off the headers.
So far, according to my big org-mode document, I'm up to about 36% mechanical completion. :D
Things I still need to do around the engine bay, in no particular order. - Rear exhaust header & Y-pipe - Finish up the passenger side footwell stuff. (Found an additional rust-hole where I thought I was done, and also I need to reinstate the bottom of the footwell vent. Which also means fixing the completely dissolved portion where the vent handle attaches to!) - Finish up welding the crossmembers into the outside of the cab frame. (I prioritised the inner parts, because the engine gets in the way of those.) - Keep cleaning & painting whatever I can to stop the rust from getting any worse. Or at least slow it down, because rust never sleeps.
Other things I'm waiting on: Air pipe, to start assembling the air system again. Got a roll of 12mm on the way, and I'll need to pick up some 8mm at a later point. There's a few other fittings I need to order, as well as some material with which I can make the air system manifolds, but I'm holding off on them for now.
Oh yeah, and the starter really needs a heatshield now...