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Philip
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Today I acquired a rust free Suzuki Samurai. I've always loved these little cars, but they all seemed so rusty. I even looked at importing one from Malta, which is a dry left-hand-drive country.
Well today I got a message from a friend who runs a Jimny customisation shop. He goes around buying Suzuki SJs which get canibalised for their transfer boxes to make low ratio boxes for Jimny's (evil ?). He got a Samurai in and when he got it back to the workshop he found it to be an unusually rust free. It was lacking engine and gearbox and now transfer box... but ... I bought it.
It may be relatively rust free, but the paint is shot and it will rust soon. So decided I'll do both projects at once. Economy of scale? Most of my time seems to be spent getting set up to do each stage of the restoration, eg setting up to spray the parts, setting up the electrolytic tank to strip parts.... taking the chassis to the blasters.... can take both at once. I'm thinking doing two at once won't take twice as long.
So going to get this Samurai stripped down. I've only done the chassis on the Vitara and started the body. I may cheat and get this chassis galvanised to catch up to the same stage as the Vit.
Lack of engine coincides perfectly with another deal, I just bought a scrap Vitara for £100. The engine will go in the Samurai, same family engine, bolts in almost directly. Already got a low ratio transfer box. Just need a gearbox.
Well today I got a message from a friend who runs a Jimny customisation shop. He goes around buying Suzuki SJs which get canibalised for their transfer boxes to make low ratio boxes for Jimny's (evil ?). He got a Samurai in and when he got it back to the workshop he found it to be an unusually rust free. It was lacking engine and gearbox and now transfer box... but ... I bought it.
It may be relatively rust free, but the paint is shot and it will rust soon. So decided I'll do both projects at once. Economy of scale? Most of my time seems to be spent getting set up to do each stage of the restoration, eg setting up to spray the parts, setting up the electrolytic tank to strip parts.... taking the chassis to the blasters.... can take both at once. I'm thinking doing two at once won't take twice as long.
So going to get this Samurai stripped down. I've only done the chassis on the Vitara and started the body. I may cheat and get this chassis galvanised to catch up to the same stage as the Vit.
Lack of engine coincides perfectly with another deal, I just bought a scrap Vitara for £100. The engine will go in the Samurai, same family engine, bolts in almost directly. Already got a low ratio transfer box. Just need a gearbox.