auf_wiedersehen_pet's build thread.

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

Nah, bloody brilliant is the eBay special, £67.00 X-Eng disc brake I picked up today.

Nah, that one's bloody brilliant.

 

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

My best one was a mint late Mazda RX8 bonnet for 99p!!

Going to use it to practise my Kawasaki green painting.

 

[Mark L]

My best one was a mint late Mazda RX8 bonnet for 99p!!

Going to use it to practise my Kawasaki green painting.

Aye, I remember you saying.

Bye the way, I'm in Southampton for 3 days in March so I'll drop you a PM nearer the time to sort out a meet.

 

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

Aye, I remember you saying.

Bye the way, I'm in Southampton for 3 days in March so I'll drop you a PM nearer the time to sort out a meet.

Sounds good. Lots of LR talk.

 

[Mark L]

Sounds good. Lots of LR talk.

You know it makes sense.

 

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

April 2009

Finally got the A bar welded to the D44 bumper. Wired the spots up and added some LED running lamps behind the grille.

 

[twice_nightly]

Thanks for the pics mate..I've been thinking about a defender A bar on my winch bumper for awhile..although not a D44 it is a close fit winch bumper so firstly I thought the A bar wouldn't fit, but looking at your photo's it looks a similar width to my bumper. Secondly I'm assuming you just kept cutting the A bar down until the spots were centered between the bumper and the top of the bar?

Any change you could let us know the width of the bumper at the point were the bar is welded if you get 5 minutes? Cheers.

 

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

I'm assuming you just kept cutting the A bar down until the spots were centered between the bumper and the top of the bar?

Yep. Just kept cutting. If you look in Post 34, the A Bar sat higher. Kept cutting and propping it up on the bumper, then sitting and staring at it.

Any change you could let us know the width of the bumper at the point were the bar is welded if you get 5 minutes? Cheers.

The bumper is off at the minute - it's had Hi-Lift jacking tubes welded in - but if you look at the 7th photo in Post 46, you'll see that the back of the A Bar touches the red part of the grille and the front of the A Bar sits flush with the front of the bumper. It would not fit with the A Bar vertical (not that I wanted it too) as it needed to be tilted to fit. If you want, I can photo the bumper (off) tomorrow.

 

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

June 2009

A high profile (and vastly expensive) method of carrying passengers in supreme style and exquisite luxury.........and some old boat in the background.

Parked in the Triangle Car Park in Southampton, nipping over to the Mother in Law's in Cowes on the Red Jet.

 

[Mr Noisy]

Lovely exhaust work mate, inspirational

Annoyed that I paid 200 for an X-Brake now

 

[MPfive]

That is some proper tidy work

 

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

August 2009

I spotted this on an Aussie forum - AULRO maybe?

Obviously, I had to have a go myself and upgrade a few other bits as well.

 

[Mark L]

This has gotta be one of my fave Discos to date.
Top work, matey. Will be scouring it for ideas in March.

 

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

September 2009

Twin battery gauges.

Interior/Exterior temperature gauges (the wire is tucked away now).

 

[Paulmitchell1984]

what did you use for the temp guages and where from? quite like that

 

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

These. Although I paid £4.

Easy to fit, stand alone but no illumination.

DIGITAL OUTDOOR AQUARIUM REPTILE THERMOMETER WITH PROBE | eBay

 

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

New Digital LCD Thermometer for Aquarium Freezer H155 | eBay

Cheaper but from China.

 

[Paulmitchell1984]

thanks for the link, going to look at these

 

[SpaceDawg]

Surely you should have dice not a grumpy dog hanging inside?

Great build, I love it.

 

[Co-Pang-Yang]

Awesome truck mate, really nice build. Can I ask where you got the reversing lamp and any pictures of the install into the spare wheel carrier?

Chris