A 4 week holiday in snowy and sheepy New Zealand saw us being van dirtbags for 3 weeks where we did some of the normal tourist'y things, but also bush walked through the alpine region, bouldered (on volcanic plugs on the beach and in limestone roadside caves and at the mecca that is Castle Hill), and mostly camped for free and didnt shower!! Our 3 week van dirtbag holliday was offset with a week of luxury apartment relaxing in wanaka while we learnt to snowboard and ski at Cardrona, Corenet Peak and Trebble Cone! Truly Awesome!! We came home bruised, with big smiles, and feeling very relaxed.
Soon after comming home, I partly tore a tendon in my little finger, which needed rest (no climbing or grover rover). So i went out drinking with the lads from work (Team Building...) and proceeded to write myself off on too many beers, sahki, jaygermiester bombs and vodka and cranbury, waking up the next day with no use of my left arm... seems I fell over in a big way. So Ive been in physio for the past 3 weeks!
Anyway, my arm is kind of working now, and Ive FINNALY got back into the project!! HOORAY! Here's the latest!
My Firewall was baddly rusted, but my donor firewall was not.
However there were 2 things that needed fixing.
This is a door hinge that dad welded back on for me while I was resting my arm.
And here you can see some welding done to the top of the firewall.
This is what the windscreen rests on.
This is the back side of the windscreen mount.
Looks shite but its watretite!! HAHAHA! =)
I quickly butted everything together to make sure it all fitted to the new firewall.
this is the floor pan and seat box butted up to the firewall base.
Here you can see it all fits! Even the windscreen!
Next week the firewall will be sandblasted and powdercoated.
And over the christmas-new-year-break, GROVER WILL LIVE AGAIN!!!
