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Gday Mick, You really need to take the door off along with the hinge and keep cutting, a fair bit more material needs to come out in all directions if your gonna have any chance of welding it and to stop the rust coming straight back. You need to take it back until the metal your cutting out isn't r...

Have a look at chosenview's blog, he has put a link to it from one of his posts. He is going the gwagen route as seen on terringbil. IMO this is the best option and I will be doing this on my Volvo also. I have this G steering box in my pinz and find it to be a really nice box with a ratio is perfec...

Check that both wires of the front axle engage solenoid are connected, it should be located behind the passengers seat area. On mine (cab over, no body) its on the outside of the cabin behind said seat, I had one of these wires come disconnected during the washing process required by our quarantine ...

Also it should be easy enough to plumb up the rearmost cross member for the second vac tank/diff lock operation. Just braze the old fitting on and extend the lines, this way the system is still in keeping with how Volvo designed it volume wise etc. But I do agree that it should work OK from the one ...

[quotePs.Why is removing the reservoir such a problem?[/quote] Chosenview, firstly really nice build your up to...I stumbled across your blog a while back and check it out every now and then to follow your progress. Keep up the good work. Regarding the reservoir, my concern is based on the assumptio...

Hi Ian, I'm pretty sure I'm going to have do something with the pesky middle crossmember, I mistook one of the photos on the last page as your build and from that I thought you were a little further along with the engine/trans in position...my mistake. It would be nice if you make yours fit. I've ju...

WOW Peter the quality of work you achieve from your relatively small home workshop really is amazing and stunning!!!
Should you ever need an extra hand with any task I would be glad to help out...BBQ attendant perhaps

Cheers Warren.

Ian,

I meant to ask in my previous post, what is the width of the 2015 transit rims?

They look really good!
Much better than having to modify for wheel nuts as I did.

I like the tyres too... I enquired recently about the same tyre in that size and was told it was discontinued in 255/85/16, I better ask elsewhere.

Hi Ian, Have you cut the rear cross member/vac tank out and moved it rearwards? Its a little hard to tell from the current pics, do you have any more of that area? I'm curious as to what you have done or planning in this regard....as my own build slowly moves forward I realise this will be an area I...

This might be way off but just a thought...do you buy your fuel from mostly the same petrol station or chain? I agree that sooty plugs would generally indicate a fuel issue over an oil one, prolonged idling could also cause sooty plugs. And it is odd that both your trucks have this same issue...inde...

Some food for thought...the guy who did this with his Volvo used a mix of gears from the maserati bi turbo s5-18/3 variant and his 5 speed tgb20 gearbox and shafts and put it all together in the Volvo gearbox cases, he was however building a box to suit a diesel conversion. I think the shaft sizing ...

This guys name is Joacim, he is also found under the name Coatex AB, actually this his main business name. http://www.volvoc303.se Email: captainduva@hotmail.com He buys (from auction) a lot of ex Swedish military vehicles...mainly the Scania sbat tgb 30/tgb 40 and also the Volvo c30x/tgbxxxx. He di...