Custom wreckluse land cruiser (lots of pics)

[southcrawler]

got my gearhead light bar today on a meet, on the way home i swung by the workshop and rigged it up...



also welded on tabs for pan hard bar, now just got to make the bar itself!

also had a great run out with my jeep.

[paleblue46]

Nice light bar ,Im still trying to pick which one I want for mine .
I wish I still had the Willys , that color is a Kobelco mini excavator blue . it was fun while I owned it

[Dready]

Have you thought about shortening the Stinger?

Looking a little large now that you have lowered the Roof Line.
Looking Good though what plans for colour?

[southcrawler]

Originally Posted by Dready

Have you thought about shortening the Stinger?

Looking a little large now that you have lowered the Roof Line.
Looking Good though what plans for colour?

Funnily enough I was just looking through the photo's of it thinking that...

more cutting and welding it is then!

As for colour I was thinking silver cage or cleaning it up and laquering the bare steel, body work possibly baby blue. but not 100% sure on either.

next build I'm making a list and sticking to it.

[Dready]

Originally Posted by southcrawler

Funnily enough I was just looking through the photo's of it thinking that...

more cutting and welding it is then!

As for colour I was thinking silver cage or cleaning it up and laquering the bare steel, body work possibly baby blue. but not 100% sure on either.

next build I'm making a list and sticking to it.

Whatever you do Dont Paint your tubework black.
Once it gets some scratches on it it'll really show up.

Silvers Good or Gun Metal

Hurry up and get it done.

[southcrawler]

Originally Posted by Dready

Whatever you do Dont Paint your tubework black.
Once it gets some scratches on it it'll really show up.

Silvers Good or Gun Metal

Hurry up and get it done.

yeah it was black when i got it and I wasn't keen think cages look much better lighter colours.

its getting there though I was hoping to have it done sooner but injuring myself earlier in the week has really slowed me down and back up paying work which also needs doing

[paleblue46]

Dont rush it , thats what I was doing and now its slow down and really sit back and look at it , make sure your happy with it first. Yours looks really good so far , are you putting a winch on or lights?

[southcrawler]

Originally Posted by paleblue46

Dont rush it , thats what I was doing and now its slow down and really sit back and look at it , make sure your happy with it first. Yours looks really good so far , are you putting a winch on or lights?

I'm planing on winch and lights, servo winch at the front and a wireless for the rear...

Ditched the CMS today running the chassis so low I couldn't get a panhard to work and without bumpsteer was crazy, so back to axle mounted.

just a few last tweaks then on to chassis clean up then paint.

[paleblue46]

Hey South ,
I just noticed my skid plate/ tranny mount doesnt fit any more , did your chassis move at all on the bottom ? for some reason mine did , not much but enough. So its back to shop for mine , Ill figure it out .

[catpwred]

if u still have parts of the body layin around if u cut from the door jams back and wrap it around wreckluse chassis it lines up pretty well and u can get rid of the plain jane side panel ill see if i have a pic of when i had mine done

here u go

[southcrawler]

Originally Posted by paleblue46

Hey South ,
I just noticed my skid plate/ tranny mount doesnt fit any more , did your chassis move at all on the bottom ? for some reason mine did , not much but enough. So its back to shop for mine , Ill figure it out .

Not really but then I cut out the bottom and mounted a wraith skid so it wasn't an issue!

Hope you get it sorted ok.

[southcrawler]

Originally Posted by catpwred

if u still have parts of the body layin around if u cut from the door jams back and wrap it around wreckluse chassis it lines up pretty well and u can get rid of the plain jane side panel ill see if i have a pic of when i had mine done

here u go

Thanks for that I was thinking if doing something with the rest of shell as it seemed a bit if a waste!

[southcrawler]

Got a delivery today from cappu, would love the VP stuff but can't afford it!




also tested out the new light bar


and as I had two sets of steering components thought i'd better try out four wheel steer!



and electrics were thrown on so I could have a little test drive



really pleased with how it drove took it for a quick spin over some rocks in the garden but with all the rain lately the sand stone was super slippy so not much of a proper test. like the 4ws though!

[Postclanker]

Cappu ??? Never heard of them...what is it they sell??? Chubs and Knucks ?

[paleblue46]

Interesting looking steering linkage , DAMN that light bar is brite!!!!

[southcrawler]

Originally Posted by Postclanker

Cappu ??? Never heard of them...what is it they sell??? Chubs and Knucks ?

They're a Hong Kong based company I think. For the princely sum of 18 pounds I got c hubs knuckles cvds servo mount y harness bearings and all hard wear to fit them! I got them off eBay took about 2 1/2 weeks to get here was worried about quality but everything fits together nice.

[Postclanker]

Thanks south...they got a web site ? I mean besides Ebay? I hate EBay
18 pounds ....about $30 I think ...not bad

[southcrawler]

Originally Posted by Postclanker

Thanks south...they got a web site ? I mean besides Ebay? I hate EBay
18 pounds ....about $30 I think ...not bad

i had a quick look but can't find a website for cappu but read some where it's re-branded integy and had a look at their site and found this... https://www.integy.com/st_prod.html?...57&p_catid=313

which is exactly what turned up when i ordered the cappu stuff.

yeah about $30 but that was in an auction i think the normal price is more than that!

[Postclanker]

thanks South...that steering linkage looks pretty interesting. how's it holding up ?

[southcrawler]

Well only run it a couple of times in the garden so far and seems ok, although i've decided to take out the big connector bit between the drag bar and the steering link arm. if you see what i mean?