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 Subject:  [Chapter] The Body and Wheels – Part 1List thread.  
  
 Date:  Oct 31, 2007
 From:  James Wechsler 
The Body and Wheels – Part 1

OK, I’m sure you’re looking at this photo and thinking that I must have forgotten to write up a few steps. Actually not. The next part of the build sequence is to put on the body parts. After looking at what was necessary, I completely abandoned the instructions.

First, for those of you not familiar with this vehicle, it starts life as a Defender 110 which is a pickup truck. So the body has the familiar truck bed, cab, and front fenders and hood (bonnet). Realizing this makes it a lot easier to see how to attach all of the parts.

Also realize that on this kit the only piece that has a definitive mounting location is the truck bed so you must start there and attach the rest of the parts from back to front.

I decided to mount the rear tail door to the truck bed to help make sure the assembly was square. My part was a little warped but the rear door squared it up. This is completely out of sequence but a crucial step. Then I assembled the major pieces of the cab. Really there’s only the cab body and the dash board but I also added the gas, brake, and clutch pedals since gluing them in later would have been much more difficult once the dash was mounted to the cab.

At this point I mounted the truck bed to the chassis frame. Then I mounted the cab to the truck bed. My logic was that from an overall view point, I needed the body parts to be aligned to each other more than anything else. Turns out this was good choice because this in when I realized that the chassis frame was badly warped (unfortunately there’s really no way find this out sooner). It was both twisted left to right (i.e. cork screwed) and drooping from back to front. I nearly cried.

But after thinking about what to do I decided to use the hair dryer to straighten it as much as possible. Then I mounted the front fenders to the cab and the radiator to the fenders. Should have been easy but the alternator on the left side of the engine interfered with the left fender. So I ended up cutting it off, mounting all of the fenders, and then reattaching it (it’s not visible anyway since I’ll be closing the hood). Then I glued the hood in place (which also required a bit of trimming).

At this point, the front body work wasn’t even close to mating to the chassis. So out came the hair dryer. I simply heated up the entire front chassis and pushed it into place against the body.

Thank goodness I mounted the body parts relative to each other. Otherwise I’d have never gotten everything to line up and I’d be reporting that I’d scrapped the whole project.
 
Thread Listing 
  [BLOG] SAS Land Rover 110 DPV - James Wechsler - Sep 26, 2007
. . . [Chapter] A Simple Build? - James Wechsler - Sep 26, 2007
. . . . . . Re: [Chapter] A Simple Build? - Chris Oldfield - Sep 26, 2007
. . . . . . Re: [Chapter] A Simple Build? - Michael Powers - Sep 26, 2007
. . . . . . . . . Reference Pictures - James Wechsler - Sep 26, 2007
. . . . . . . . . Zip file - Chris "Panzer" Mrosko - Sep 26, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Zip file - Bruce Oomen - Sep 26, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Zip file - Chris "Panzer" Mrosko - Sep 26, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Zip file - Michael Powers - Sep 26, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Let's see - James Wechsler - Sep 27, 2007
. . . Re: [BLOG] SAS Land Rover 110 DPV - Mike Powers - Sep 27, 2007
. . . [Chapter] Maybe Not - James Wechsler - Sep 29, 2007
. . . [Chapter] Getting Started – Rear Suspension - James Wechsler - Oct 8, 2007
. . . . . . coil springs [IMG] - spencer norcross - Oct 9, 2007
. . . . . . . . . Re: coil springs - James Wechsler - Oct 9, 2007
. . . [Chapter] The Front Suspension - James Wechsler - Oct 13, 2007
. . . [Chapter] The Engine, Drive Train , and Exhaust - James Wechsler - Oct 15, 2007
. . . . . . Radiator Mounts - Hans Haase - Oct 15, 2007
. . . . . . About the Radiator - Michael Powers - Oct 15, 2007
. . . . . . . . . Re: About the Radiator - spencer norcross - Oct 16, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . Hilarious! - Jim Wechsler - Oct 16, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Looking good so far - Chris "Panzer" Mrosko - Oct 26, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: About the Radiator - Chris Oldfield - Oct 27, 2007
. . . [Chapter] The Body and Wheels – Part 1 - James Wechsler - Oct 31, 2007
. . . . . . About the hood - Michael Powers - Nov 1, 2007
. . . . . . . . . I can attest to that! - Hans Haase - Nov 3, 2007
. . . [Chapter] The Body and Wheels – Part 2 - James Wechsler - Nov 5, 2007
. . . . . . build/rebuild woes - spencer norcross - Nov 6, 2007
. . . [Chapter] Roll Cage and Weapon Mount - James Wechsler - Nov 12, 2007
. . . [Chapter] Front End Details - James Wechsler - Nov 18, 2007
. . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Front End Details - Michael Powers - Nov 18, 2007
. . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Front End Details - James Wechsler - Nov 19, 2007
. . . [Chapter] Cab Details - James Wechsler - Nov 23, 2007
. . . [Chapter] The Driver - James Wechsler - Nov 26, 2007
. . . [Chapter] Truck Bed Details - James Wechsler - Nov 29, 2007
. . . [Chapter] Roll Cage and Weapon Mount Details - James Wechsler - Dec 5, 2007
. . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Roll Cage and Weapon Mount Details - Glenn Bartolotti - Dec 5, 2007
. . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Roll Cage and Weapon Mount Details - Michael Powers - Dec 5, 2007
. . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Roll Cage and Weapon Mount Details - Jim Wechsler - Dec 6, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Roll Cage and Weapon Mount Details - Brian O'Donoghue - Dec 8, 2007
. . . [Chapter] Commander and Machine Gun - James Wechsler - Dec 17, 2007
. . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Commander and Machine Gun - Michael Powers - Dec 18, 2007
. . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Commander and Machine Gun - John Desrosiers - Dec 24, 2007
. . . [Chapter] Gunner and Grenade Launcher - James Wechsler - Dec 23, 2007
. . . [Chapter] Construction Complete – Perspective - James Wechsler - Dec 25, 2007
. . . [Chapter] Basic Painting - James Wechsler - Dec 27, 2007
. . . [Chapter] Camouflage - James Wechsler - Jan 1, 2008
. . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Camouflage - John Steinman - Jan 3, 2008
. . . . . . Re: Excellent Wheel overspray... - Michael Powers - Jan 4, 2008
. . . . . . . . . Re: Excellent Wheel overspray... Maybe not - James Wechsler - Jan 4, 2008
. . . [Chapter] Detail Painting – Step 1 - James Wechsler - Jan 6, 2008
. . . [Chapter] Decals and Dash Board - James Wechsler - Jan 13, 2008
. . . [Chapter] Drybrushing - James Wechsler - Jan 19, 2008
. . . [Chapter] Wash - James Wechsler - Jan 19, 2008
. . . [Chapter] Figures - James Wechsler - Feb 2, 2008
. . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Figures - Michael Powers - Feb 3, 2008
. . . [Chapter] Putting it all together - James Wechsler - Feb 2, 2008
. . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Putting it all together - John Yarosh - Feb 2, 2008
. . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Putting it all together - James Wechsler - Feb 4, 2008
. . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Putting it all together - Chris Oldfield - Feb 3, 2008
. . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Putting it all together - James Wechsler - Feb 4, 2008
. . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Putting it all together - Steve Camley - Feb 3, 2008
. . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Putting it all together - James Wechsler - Feb 4, 2008
. . . . . . Still more chapters - Paul A. Owen - Feb 3, 2008
. . . [Chapter] The Groundwork - James Wechsler - Feb 9, 2008
. . . . . . Re: [Chapter] The Groundwork - Michael Powers - Feb 10, 2008
. . . . . . Re: [Chapter] The Groundwork - Jason Bobrowich - Feb 10, 2008
. . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] The Groundwork - James Wechsler - Feb 11, 2008
. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] The Groundwork - Walt Babst - Mar 13, 2008
. . . . . . Re: [Chapter] The Groundwork - spencer norcross - Feb 13, 2008
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