Vladislav

Thanks Mike, my week has been started in some hours earlier than at the most of community. I wish a good time to everybody here

I suppose you haven't sanded off the right hood from painted as the left one to get a weathered look. Good progress anyway

TV programs aren't the way to follow when you do your own project. Mostly time wasted. Seems like will be a nice baby when finished, keep us posted.

Fresh painted cab looks really nice. Shure it will be a killer when you put everything together. And it was very good you visited the shop regulary. Those paint guys used to move slow along big projects. Hope to see her ready soon.

Thank you Ryan, Next along this truck is making up a sleeper. I have the spare one, almost similar, and one more on the second R. All 3 have rusty roofs wich are made of common steel. Some one economied a bit adding it onto a SS lined sleeper. The under structure is also rusty. I'm going to part one box out as deep as I can, blast the skeleton, than put the lining back and fix or redo the roof. And paint it. Than paint the hood and maybe the doors. That's the plan for the summer. Yea, the air filter is mostly ready (more correctly say - fully restored) and will be fitted on in days.

Glad to see one more anciant beast going to its new life. I'm agree with all the above on the fuel pump. Good luck on the project. Vlad

Happily we here are free from such an organizations. At least I am behind my fence. It's the private property and I'm free to do many things. Until nobody knows. Or something wrong happens that must come out to a public.

Thank you for the warm words guys. I'm going to put the R inside for the next cold season but actually have no place for. Thinking about rebulid the front wall of my garage to make lager gates. One big instead of two small ones. The only serious worry is... my living area is upstears and I must be shure to not destroy the building I built 10 years ago. Ken, let me know please who the hell is OSHA?

Not so bad Ray. There were no real lug nuts, just 19 mm bolt heads. I took the extra brake disk off Mercedes, cut it around with a lathe to form a seat surface for Alcoa. Than bolted that part onto the existing Mercedes disc with Mercedes wheel bolts. Then put Alcoa with common bolts to the disk through the holes I drilled for. Had to block Mercedes interaxle diff to not weld it up when spinning, had to remove the rear prop to get the vehicle unmoving. Than had to block the front diff for the same purpose and jacked the other wheel. Car did about 50-60 mph during the work, got 1000+ miles on it and spent 50 liters of gas. It's G500, 5 liter V8. By the word if you ever catch an eye on a wrecked Mercedes Gelandewagen please let me know. I might need them more when continue to polish. No kidding, that's my current business, I part them out for spares.

Yea Fred, I'm agree with you. My truck is not for a work, it's a hobby one so I hope to keep it off snow and salt. Gteat amount of labour was spent to delete deep corrosion cavits before polishing itself. But it seems to me I should keep the truck inside for the next winter. Or at least the tank and the wheels Thank you for your comment.

By the way re-drilled the holes in the hub-piloted wheels to put them on studs. Had to increase the hole's ID and made 45 degree tapered cavits. Put those wheels as the inner rear ones. Long while ago I asked on here of how to do it and Mike Superdog said me "You can not put hub-piloted wheels on studs". Now I know he was almost true about that.

Finally ended up with the wheels on my ex-SGT R-model. Had to make a special "tool" to fix a wheel to a car's hub to get it turning. Than one of my guys spent about 4 days on the each Alcoa with a grinder and lots of sand paper. Than a couple of hours with 3M polishing paste. Put rubber on and fitted the wheels to the truck with all chrome additions. Also got the left hand (polished) tank in its place. The right one is waiting for his time.

Not a nice cash off. At least I hope you feel better now.

Would be nice to see some pics of the LJ. Not many left with origilal gassers. Vlad

At the right side of an engine's front.

Cool looking rig

Looks solid but slightly pricy for its condition. I might be interested in the carriers if some one would get it for parts. Thank you for sharing it.

Looks like a lot of useful things in it. Just needs time and labour to keep them. Sorry to see such a mighty piece of machinery going to its end.

The last one looked mighty Every thing has its end. Sometimes it's changed into a better one. As long we live as seldom it happens..

Sorry to see the blue truck damaged (again) but I think (again) it's good you wasn't with the RW (again) Too like the MH paint scheme.

Little note Pawel. I think it would be good to modify the front alloy wheels. Those ones off the kit don't look too realistic on my mind. Better to say look bad, especially in relation to all the model. As for me I'd like to make them whole new with a lathe of a piece of aluminium. But that's me and that's why I still have no ready models. So maybe to put some real small srews with nuts on them? Or imitate chrome plated lug nut covers? Vlad

Congrats on the fresh look

We all waiting for pics!

That's really cool, congratulations! Glad to know everybody is Ok. And.. What's a trouble of having a girl as a nice addition to the boys collection? Just something new in the life again. Best wishes to the family!

Hell... I thought you guys live happier. And... It was not me buying the water pump across the border