Brumby front cut export

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:00 pm

On CD player fitment in these consoles, they are not deep enough for most I have sen, same goes for the L's as well. I made up a face plate from 16mm? MDF to take up the gap. I did see one brand, model fitted with no extension. May have whopping big hole behind it into the heater box. Audio fitters do have access to various extensions for this kind of fit.

dfoyl · Post by **dfoyl** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:28 pm

The straight console won't fit a standard depth CD player, the angled console will but only just - I have a pioneer unit in mine and it fits but I had to grind away at the heater vent casing. The problem is all car CD players have the plugs coming out directly from the back for speakers, power and the antenna - and the antenna in particular is a thick wide that can't be bent much so you need space behind the unit to clear everything. My Pioneer unit was a junkyard special and I chose it partly on brand but mostly on length of the unit...I think some of the more modern units with 50W+ outputs have bigger casings and will be too long to fit unless you go the spacer option.

Most of the L series' I have seen have had spacers fitted and look pretty average...

Dean.

1111giles · Post by **1111giles** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 6:16 pm

See what you mean there Dean. I have not removed the old radio yet - as we will get our teeth into it when we start on the A/C install.
I do have a spare old subaru radio kicking about and that is short - like really short.
Not all that 'busy' inside back then.....

If we need to block the unit out a little then its a small price to pay to get some modern sound in there!

Not sure yet if the A/C install will change any dimensions in that area, as you mention machining the fan unit?

Does anyone know?

Cheers
Giles

dfoyl · Post by **dfoyl** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 9:51 pm

No change to the A/C system there, the back of the CD player may hit the vent that switches hot air between dash and floor - it's basically a double-ended (drivers side / passengers side) hot air tube that flows out each side of the dash where it hits the transmission tunnel.

The A/C only changes the space behind the glovebox as that is the only under-dash area affected. The map shelf needs to be removed during installation of the A/C but is refitted afterwards.

Dean.

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 12:25 am

If you end up with the need for glovebox surgery maybe get rid of the storage compartment and turn it into entertainment central all hidden behind the glovebox lid?

1111giles · Post by **1111giles** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 2:15 am

steptoe wrote:If you end up with the need for glovebox surgery maybe get rid of the storage compartment and turn it into entertainment central all hidden behind the glovebox lid?

Did actually consider this idea.....have to see how it pans out.

Anyhows....we are zooming in on a pick up date for the Brumby Cut.
7,8 or 9th July. The shipment lands on 1st July.
Customs want some dough! freight people want some dough! admin want some dough!!!!!
Makes you wonder how free international trade manages to exist!
Anyhow no probs will get a final bill (£) on Monday 5th when all costs are known and I pay over the phone with a card.
Then its drive down to Ipswich to collect the consignment yeehaaa!
Oh hang on....then there's more expense in fitting it all and gassing it up!
Dont ya just love it eh?

The wife just would not understand !!!!

Cheers for now
Giles.

1111giles · Post by **1111giles** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 7:51 am

Ok all you Scooby folks out there
,
I've just opened up an email from Fallows the freight handling company here in the UK.
It's confirmation that the front cut HAS arrived in the UK and is currently in a customs clearing yard awaiting my customs payment and then unloading from the container its come all the way from OZLand in.

So I supposed the Brumby front cut should now officially become an MV front cut

All I have to do now is hand over some wonga to the UK customs and the freight people here (doing this Monday):( and then I am clear to go and collect it.

That's planned for Thursday 8th July. I am working at the Office in Coventry on Wednesday and shall travel down to Ipswich Wednesday evening and stay over down there ready for collection on Thursday. On the way back I am also collecting a Truckman top for Scruffy - from a Guy in Sleaford (£20 ebay bargain) just hope I can fit it on the truck as well

Ok I will take some piccy's of the story and post up once I am back with it.

That's all folks!
Cheers
Giles.

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 9:44 am

So, interupted sleep patterns continue. Good to hear it is happening as planned.

Anyone got any redback pics or hooror stories for Giles oncase fumigation program does not work entirely?

I know a mechanic that enjoyed his last Xmas break NOT due to a bite on the neck. Six days in bed, halucinations, could not see past the glass of water on the bedside table, hot and cold. Reckons it was worse being on neck went straight to his brain. Took six weeks to fully feel good again.

FROG · Post by **FROG** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 11:18 am

yup our spiders are tough........

Spider eats snake

Thursday, September 25, 2008

© The Cairns Post

IT'S a spider-eat-snake world out there - if you believe these images.

Dramatic photographs sent to The Cairns Post this week show a 14cm-long snake entangled in the web of a redback spider.

The snake had apparently died from the spider's poisonous bite, and was off the ground and caught up in the web.

The email accompanying the images claims a receptionist at an electrical firm came in to work on Tuesday to find the snake caught up in the web. It is believed the snake got caught in the web on Monday night.

Throughout Tuesday, the spider checked on her prey, but on Wednesday she rolled it up and started spinning a web around it. She also kept lifting it higher off the ground, while continually snacking on it.

http://www.cairns.com.au/images/uploade ... Ssnake.gif

subybrumby · Post by **subybrumby** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 6:33 pm

Well the world is certainly becoming a smaller place when I can see the front of a brumby here in Toowoomba end up in England. I hope it is all you hoped for Giles and we all look forward to seeing the end result. From what I understand, you will have the only air conditioned brumby , sorry, MV pickup in England so that should attract some interest around the traps. As I said in an email, I sourced the airconditioning unit for my brumby from Adelaide and it came in many pieces and not all from the same car. But it went together fairly straight forward, although was installed by a friend who specialises
in this area but as I remember he had not problems with the install.

Cheers mate

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 3:10 am

I can see a FROG would be happy about one less snake - even if it is or was in another state

1111giles · Post by **1111giles** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:34 am

Hi there all you Scooby dudes,
Well its travelled half way around the world - and finally the Brumby cut is finally in Greetland, Halifax ENGLAND:mrgreen:

Got to collect the palletised cut earlier today (8th July) from Ipswich which is very much South & east England. Bit of a polava at the freight handlers they messed up with the numbers in their queueing system, which allowed 2 40ft artics in ahead of me - all I could do was wait in 30degs heat for 3 hours! Bah!

On the way back to Home I collected a truck top for Scruffy - its on one of the attached pictures.
All in a 535 mile (860 km) round trip.

We haven't upacked the cut just yet - that fun is to come.....
Oh and to all you red nasty spiders that maybe lurking in there.....you have been beaten to it, would you believe I was bitten by all things - a mosquito at the weekend! Very rare here in UK !
My toe is a right mess.
Red spiders? pah!

I will post further updates...... as the fun now begins:):)

Thats it for the moment,
Check out the pics!
Cheers
Giles.

ps All that remains now is that I introduce Scooby & Scruffy to their 'half' cousin all the way from Australia - called Brumby

Post by **Alex** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 9:52 am

30 degrees paf harden up!

good to see it finally got there!

alex

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 10:59 am

Those pideys should be called REDblack spider as they have a red gash on nasty black shiny body and just suspend on their strong, stretchy sticky web in the shadows. Pointy looking toes. And not spreadeagled either.

Great to see you finally got your package. You will need that A/C at thirty C for sure .

1111giles · Post by **1111giles** » Sun Jul 11, 2010 8:41 am

Hi there folks,
Well it was a fine Saturday morning here today, so time to un-wrap our new arrival and take a closer look at what we have got.....

First impressions are that OZ cars 20 year old have NO rust - well this one hasn't much at all. Very different to a UK 20 year old car.
The air con all looks good and we had a good look at the install.... kinda glad we got it - car and all - as I can imagine the 'fun' we would have had if it had been supplied removed.
I have started to strip off various goodies from the Brumby and was amazed at how easy the various fixings un-did, If those had been exposed 20 years here they would have siezed solid or even rusted away.
Begun to pull away the dash board to get to the cooler.
Grabbed off the front mudflaps... will have a real close up look at these to see if they are good enough to go on Scooby.

Never seen a MV/Brumby with carpets in it before....

Found the obligitory bit of money in there, you always find cash in a 'new to you' car!

Found a bar of soap......mmmm!

AARRGGHHHH a real life SPIDER as well. Small fast black and white thing....not fast enough for me though hehehe:!:

Got the mats and seal kit from Trevor (thanks mate) but guess what Trev, no Invoice from the yard surprise surprise!

Monday morning the cut is off upto HDC to be lifted off the Merc and then be stripped out fully.
As I said the work is about to begin.

Keep you all posted.

Here are some piccy's.
Anyone spot something else in the pictures all the way from OZ. ??

tip - its not the coin.

Cheers
Giles.

Post by **TOONGA** » Sun Jul 11, 2010 11:14 am

the factory jack next to the aircon?

nice looking cut Ive seen brumbys in worse condition driving on the road

TOONGA

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sun Jul 11, 2010 1:05 pm

NO.

Oh, and Giles, that fast little black spider with white bit on his back may be the male redback spider regarded as pretty harmless but watch out for his missus. Seen the pics I sent you?

Thought you were getting a front cut, cut at the screen , you got more value there .

What are we supposed to see in the pic?

please...

olddog642 · Post by **olddog642** » Sun Jul 11, 2010 9:00 pm

G'day Giles,
hey thats a great deal you got, also I see you got some good old aussie red dust as well.
Have fun
Best regards
Hylton

1111giles · Post by **1111giles** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 4:28 am

Hey no takers on the 'other aussie' connection in one of my attached images then.....'com guys its there staring at you.

So its not the coin.
its not the jack. (sorry Jules)
its not the red dust either Hylton - but there is now a quantity of Australia in my garden by way of travelled rock and dust thats come with the car.

Surely one of you out there can see it???

Tip you may have to zoom up the images.

First one to get it right wins a curry and beers on me.....but you have to come to England to claim it hehehe!:mrgreen:

World cup just about to start so switching off now.....
By for now folks!

Giles.
ps my tip Spain to win 2:1

1111giles · Post by **1111giles** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 4:31 am

[quote="steptoe"]NO.

Oh, and Giles, that fast little black spider with white bit on his back may be the male redback spider regarded as pretty harmless but watch out for his missus. Seen the pics I sent you?

Scary S H 1 Tea mate proper nasty little piders......
Keep watching for those lil buggers......took the wings off today (fenders) saw a couple more of em.......its off to HDC's tomorrow so they wont be on my patch anymore hehehe:mrgreen:
Cheers
Giles.

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Brumby front cut export

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It's Here.........

Its here & i have got it

Ok - so now our work begins........

Piccy quiz........