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13 14 February 2021 Progress continues and the front cabin is all undercoated. THe roof still looks WW3 was fought on it but I'm not beating the panels out the character can stay. Doors are all undercoated. Some new surface rust killed and prepped. http://www.geckoadventure.net/Volvo/20210213_152939...

11 February 2021 There is a lot of work done and tonnes to go. http://www.geckoadventure.net/Volvo/20210211_132857.jpg http://www.geckoadventure.net/Volvo/20210211_133002.jpg http://www.geckoadventure.net/Volvo/20210211_133010.jpg However 2 coats of undercoat and 3 coats of top coat the colour looks...

5 months of updates in one day lol.

7 February 2021

Painting prep continues much work has been done in the 3 days.

1 February 2021 I still have no news from the workshop whether they have put the front brakes on or not. The longer I wait the longer the delay in finishing Volvo 1 and starting Volvo 2 again and then starting on Volvo 3. I also have my troopy and the magnificient RED truck being sold Once Volvo 2 i...

05 January 2021 Well I had a few days leave and did not want to travel far due to the growing COVID issue here and people running all over the place for a holiday. My JETBOAT boat is still in the shop getting new headgasket after the last Elephant hunting trip disaster. So I decided time to paint th...

I am curious as to why you chose the fixed windows in the rear as opposed to a slider type. I am not sure what the rear cabin section offers as far as ventilation for the passengers. Keep up the great work! Take care. Top panels will be removed for passengers. Did not want sliding windows they will...

VinceAtReal4x4s wrote: ↑Mon Jan 04, 2021 8:26 pm Thanks for the updates. Ive been wondering what's going on. Do you think the doors will hold up structurally ok? Just curious how much they flex

We have been test driving it round the streets they appear to be ok. They are quite well made.

01 January 2021 Hi all after months of COVID and finally a couple of adventurous holidays (boat trip and a round Langkawi isand in 14 footers lol ) in the COVID breaks we were allowed to travel, a family tragedy (lost whole off December) and not doing much the brakes were started sometime in October...

31 December 2020 We are so close to having it ready. We decided to go down the path of getting new brackets made for the brake callipers as the old 3mm ones were flexing a little hmmmmm quite a bit. So while we were at it we decided to add twin callipers. So a new matching set was obtained. They are...

any updates? A terrible update We had the haze no work was done on the Volvo I/2 or 3 just stayed indoors for 4 weeks as the workshop is a open workshop the haze made eyes water etc so I stayed away. We have rebuilt the brake pedal it's almost finished and we have found the brake issue we had 1cm o...

Wahoo the JD Squared 32 bender has arrived from the USA at some point we can commence to build the roll cages for Volvo 2 and 4 once we set it up on the shop floor and relocate the notching tool and the vice etc. However its missing a PIN from the parts kit. We cannot finsh assembling it until the v...

1 May 2019 There's not been a lot of real activity on the Volvo 6 weeks of weddings, birthdays a sick friend the passing of my 15 year Rawang Toyota Professor Mechanic. Collected the Landcruiser finally from IPOH 200k away then more issues with the Landcruiser breaking down several times since causi...

28 April 2019 http://www.geckoadventure.net/Volvo/20190421_134756.jpg http://www.geckoadventure.net/Volvo/20190428_134302.jpg Made an Anderson plug jumper lead to made jump starting very easy and cried over the state of the batteries today's plan to start the truck again was shattered. http://www.ge...

7 April 2019 Got my little sidekick to help out but since he is recovering from his motorbike accident he slept all arvo instead http://www.geckoadventure.net/Volvo/20190406_164319.jpg Then the arvo thunderstorm rains started and we all headed for the treehouse and talked poop for 3 hours and drank ...

1 May 2019 There's not been a lot of real activity on the Volvo 6 weeks of weddings, birthdays a sick friend the passing of my 15 year Rawang Toyota Professor Mechanic. Collected the Landcruiser finally from IPOH 200k away then more issues with the Landcruiser breaking down several times since causi...