All righty here it is
Sorry for not posting for a while, I have been at it every day but as I use an old school digital camera, its rarely made it back inside for downloading.
So getting the chassis out took a week (evenings) and everything off it bar the rear running gear and engine took 3 days. Lots of pics and labelling.
Thanks to MEC and Alex for all their help and encouragement
I hopefully have a pic of everything before and after so it should help, if anyone ever needs pics or info feel free.
Main body bolts were no issue and all present and reasonably tight.
Onwards with the "all electrical elements" which took a while.
Following through the checklist Mec was kind enough to send over. Of what to remove before commencing separation. There are about 20 items.
Lets get lifting
First signs of movement at the back
I forgot about the front lights electrical connection so managed to remove these mid lift.. and found where the mice were living prior to my ownership.
WOOP!
Loving the airtime...The back of the frame doesnt look too bad.
Forgot the earth from the tank filler so had to cut it as I was too far in
I did start with using these bales and they were working ok.
But then it got too risky so screw that
A quick distance trip to a builders merchant, 50 breeze blocks(£88) hand loaded 800kilos into a car
and we are smoking again, a lot stabler, safer and easier.
A couple of scaffold planks
Last few elements to unhook and squirrel out of the grommets.
There she blows.
Radiator took about 20 mins so I was well chuffed.
This was the plate welded between the front extensions
Clearly the chap was thinking about me removing these bolts later, I had to take a grinder to them which had me worried as the fuel tank was so exposed. My wife stood fire watch.
Interestingly this was the only thing I had to grind off. I sprayed the lot with WD40 the night before I started the undoing it all and this one was just access which stopped me undoing it.
Found this by the tank which makes me think of a pigs snout....
More signs of my furry friends by the gear shift...
The rear trailing arms bolts were actually loose and had these crammed in which I pulled out, well they literally fell out when I touched them.
I cant think why someone would want to stick their DMC logo in there....
Clean as a whistle...
Exhaust out just waiting for my chains to turn up to lift the engine and transmission out.
Then off to the Acid dip followed by a trip to Alex.. I wont pre-empt his skilful review but its not as bad as I thought, the back seems ok but the bit above the LCA's is starting to go but is well behind MEC's so I am hopefully its fixable.
Once I get the engine out I will flip it over and show some underside pics.