Shitting in the shallow end. *A2 fixes*

[Jim Bell]

It's a rainy Sunday so I thought I'd have a go at improving the asthetics of the unquestionably ugly Rexton. 

First, off with the 99p LOL DECALS. 

For this effort, I will employing heat, and petrol. In that order. 

 

Nicky fucken Clarke. Hottest you can get. Jack it up to 11. 

 

 

 

You first. Unfunny wee bastard. 

 

That's better. Factree.

 

 

Ha haha. No. 

Delete. 

 

Factory settings restored. 

[Jim Bell]

The only bit of chrome on the whole bus is on the grille, which is rather incongruous. 

 

 

I had some pssst psst in the shed so had a crack at dechroming the grin. 

 

Oot ya get. 

 

Before. 

 

Add pssst. 

After. 

 

 

 

 

Represent. 

 

RUGGED FINISH 

 

All done. 

 

Probably needs more black now. 

 

[Jim Bell]

I t doesn't look quite as ugly from a distance. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Out Run]

On 5/18/2022 at 12:01 PM, garbaldy said:

Excellent  it's a few years since I've been to crail, one thing I've not missed is that key sound while off roading it used to get on my nerves as I always forgot to remove the jangley bit from mine before launching into the scenery.

Aye, that pendulum effect, smashing off the dash and your knees off the tunnel and door card. 😄

[Out Run]

On 5/18/2022 at 1:58 PM, garbaldy said:

Lets see if your right then after a drumclog day 😉

We'll be fucked, TBH. No winch at all and low hanging diffs.

I might scale back my ambition for now and head to Peas Farm (if it still exists), instead.

[Out Run]

@Jim BellI reckon your grille would be better grey, like the lower half of the body.

Or add more black, like a winch bumper, snorkel, skid plate, modulars, arch extensions, roof rack etc 🤪

[Dick Longbridge]

Rugged indeed. Are you going to bedliner the whole thing?

I'm still trying to work out how to pronounce Ssangyong. Are you supposed to stammer the Ss like Phil C? 

[Jim Bell]

46 minutes ago, Out Run said:

@Jim BellI reckon your grille would be better grey, like the lower half of the body.

Or add more black, like a winch bumper, snorkel, skid plate, modulars, arch extensions, roof rack etc 🤪

You're probably right. I didn't have any grey paint in the shed thought. And I also didn't have enough bedliner left in that can to do all the lower body plastics. So it's staying the way it is. 

[Out Run]

20 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Rugged indeed. Are you going to bedliner the whole thing?

I'm still trying to work out how to pronounce Ssangyong. Are you supposed to stammer the Ss like Phil C? 

My mate used to go for the Psy? approach,

'Oppan Gangnam SsangYong style'

[Jim Bell]

21 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Rugged indeed. Are you going to bedliner the whole thing?

I'm still trying to work out how to pronounce Ssangyong. Are you supposed to stammer the Ss like Phil C? 

No,that's about the end of the can. So that's it. 

The correct phonetic way to pronounce Ssangyong is:

*Sassangey-Jhong* - but you have to say it out of one side of your mouth like Salt Bae saying "Avacado"

 

https://youtube.com/shorts/M7eUWYxEmf0?feature=share

 

 

[Dick Longbridge]

49 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

No,that's about the end of the can. So that's it. 

The correct phonetic way to pronounce Ssangyong is:

*Sassangey-Jhong* - but you have to say it out of one side of your mouth like Salt Bae saying "Avacado"

 

https://youtube.com/shorts/M7eUWYxEmf0?feature=share

 

 

Ah, like Brian Badonde but different. 

[Jim Bell]

It's been mostly quiet on the Rexton front but one large step forward has been ticked off the list of things to do. 

When I got the car, the 4x4 was not engaging when you pressed the dash buttons for 4H or 4L. 

With timid aspirations for remedial level off roading and greenish lane bothering, this would not do. 

A bit of direction from @Out Run saw me off to AliExpress to order some manual freewheel front hubs. I clicked on the SLOW BOTE FROM CHINA option....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some tools were assembled and then 10 mins of one spanner Haynes difficulty level work unfurled. 

 

Bonus shoe. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With hubs engaged, 4wd should now work. 

 

 

 

Sadly, there are as still no drive to the front wheels. 

We scratched our heads for a bit and decided that there wasn't really much to be wrong (other than me over greasing the hubs)  so we popped them off at the side of the road and tried reassembly with the selector switch in the engaged position. 

 

And guess what. 

 

 

 

 

It only bloody worked. 4x4 now functioning. 

 

[Jim Bell]

Only tried it on a very tame local hill, but all seems functioning A1 5x5. 

 

 

 

Next plans are for a lift and first some decent all TERRY IAN tryres. 

 

[Jim Bell]

It's a good bus this. I really like it. 

As said before, it doesn't do anything great but it has a go at everything without complaint. 

What more could you ask for from an obscure daft shit old car?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jim Bell]

As it was performing well, I treated it to a posh wash and some hilarious decals. 

It scrubs up well. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A local tourist attraction and feat of ancient engineering, seen here with a lighthouse. 

 

 

 

[Out Run]

It's gripped. It's sorted.

[dome]

Good work man. Think the working 4wd will help at Crail? You'll need another showdown with @rml2345 to find out...

[Jim Bell]

17 minutes ago, dome said:

Good work man. Think the working 4wd will help at Crail? You'll need another showdown with @rml2345 to find out...

It might help if they move the drag strip 20 meters to the left and we race up that wet field past the bait van to the chemical toilet trailer. 

[Out Run]

1 hour ago, dome said:

Good work man. Think the working 4wd will help at Crail? You'll need another showdown with @rml2345 to find out...

May as well select 4L. I doubt it will change the MPH, at the line. 😅

[paulplom]

13 hours ago, Jim Bell said:

It's a good bus this. I really like it. 

As said before, it doesn't do anything great but it has a go at everything without complaint. 

When you flogging it then?

[Jim Bell]

1 hour ago, paulplom said:

When you flogging it then?

If history is any reasonable indication, it'll be for sale some time in the next eleven months. 

[Jim Bell]

Some pics of the high up countryside from an afternoon delivery mission. 

 

Even under the clouds, it's a far better place to be than at work. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[loserone]

I know that house!

[Lacquer Peel]

6 minutes ago, loserone said:

I know that house!

Looks like a shop to me. 

[loserone]

5 minutes ago, Lacquer Peel said:

Looks like a shop to me. 

You and about five people a day

*Ding dong* is this a crèche ?

*Ding dong* do you sell bottles of pop?

*Ding dong* do you have the key to the public toilet?

 

[loserone]

*Ding dong* can I leave ten years of Car magazine here?

[Dyslexic Viking]

12 minutes ago, loserone said:

*Ding dong* can I leave ten years of Car magazine here?

Guesses you said yes to that.

[Jim Bell]

57 minutes ago, loserone said:

You and about five people a day

*Ding dong* is this a crèche ?

*Ding dong* do you sell bottles of pop?

*Ding dong* do you have the key to the public toilet?

 

He hasn't even got a bell. You just have to go in and say "Ding dong"

[loserone]

5 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

He hasn't even got a bell. You just have to go in and say "Ding dong"

I have to point out the button to quite a lot of people too

[garbaldy]

23 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

He hasn't even got a bell. You just have to go in and say "Ding dong"