Ruby Scoo’s epic build, ten years and counting...

revmax · Post by **revmax** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 9:23 pm

Bennie, I don't get it ! you have complemented others on there work but your work looks just as good if not bigger and better. I am thinking you underestimate yourself.

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 12:20 pm

revmax wrote:Bennie, I don't get it ! you have complemented others on there work but your work looks just as good if not bigger and better. I am thinking you underestimate yourself.

Yeah thanks revmax, but I'm still not sold on it! The welding isn't the greatest - I actually started to get it right in the last day or half day of welding! Murphy's law

That said about the welding, it'll do the job just fine, I have no doubt about that - but if a pro looked at it they'd probably have a sinking feeling in their heart. I like to try and get things right all the time but I was against the clock on this one (welder borrowing time).

Now I'm after another can or two of rust converter/sealer to finish off the sealing of all the welding. After this will be a coat of fish oil (thanks venom!) then a liberal coat of black anti-rust enamel to finish it off.

I'm now thinking that once she's in one piece it'll be a trip to the car wash to clean up everything the way I should have done it before I pulled her all apart - then a coat or two of that sound deadener foam stuff... Thinking of doing a coat in the cab along the floor to help seal up the exposed flooring from the stiff sound deadener lifting because of the inverting of the floor pan! Plus it's apparently flexible which will be good IMO.

Cheers

Bennie

Bradenrm · Post by **Bradenrm** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:04 am

Just read the entire thread/novel/diy/how to over the past few days.

God amoungst us mortal men, well done!

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 8:27 pm

Bradenrm wrote:Just read the entire thread/novel/diy/how to over the past few days.

I hope you ate something in between!

Bradenrm wrote:God amoungst us mortal men, well done!

Dunno about that... maybe just a subi nut gone wrong! Plus I've got to finish her off to complete this phase. Thanks for the comment though

I didn't get anything done today - I got some rust converter/sealer replacement cans today, I ran out last weekend. And I missed centre road wreckers for that PS pump bracket due to the bloody traffic and because I stuffed around too long at campbellfield PAP looking for a sigma head, after removing two and finding them in the same corroded condition or worse than the one I got off Kez's one I then started stuffing around with the astron2 head from a magna. It'd probably work, but for the amount of money we'd have to spend on the head, matching cam and cam followers it wasn't worth the gamble.

After this we headed off and thus missed out - real pissed since we essentially drove across to the other side of melbourne for nothing

Cheers

Bennie

FROG · Post by **FROG** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:24 pm

Yeah monster effort Bennie

I love your dedication and passion

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:49 pm

FROG wrote:Yeah monster effort Bennie I love your dedication and passion

Thanks mate! It does mean a lot, and there's a lot of work in it. Can't wait to have her going again but like I've said earlier, I want to do it properly - paint everything up properly to protect against rust.

I've also been thinking about writing up a summary to shorten the whole thing down - it should keep me busy for a while after Ruby's back together.

Cheers

Bennie

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 8:50 pm

Today I continued sealing up the welding - the interior is turning out to be much more painful than I thought it would be. Hopefully I'll get all the welds wire-wheeled with the grinder and at least one coat of rust converter sealer on before I've got to be other places I need to be.

And for a little bit of fun so I can say that I've done it, hopefully the only time this ever happens:

Here's most of my spray work at the moment - at least two coats of the rust converter sealer and now a coat of fish oil. Tomorrow it'll get a coat of Kill rust black enamel to finish off the paint work from under neath:

That's it for now.

Cheers

Bennie

FROG · Post by **FROG** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 8:54 pm

sheesh Bennie get her over again before she stretches her knickers

revmax · Post by **revmax** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 9:13 pm

Bennie have you considered abrasive blasting.
Wire wheels n rust converter are OK but blasting removes rust forever.

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 9:19 pm

FROG wrote:sheesh Bennie get her over again before she stretches her knickers

She's back to where she would be if her wheels were where they should be - got that? I should word it better but can't be bothered, the english language was designed to be hard!

revmax wrote:Bennie have you considered abrasive blasting.
Wire wheels n rust converter are OK but blasting removes rust forever.

I've checked out your setup but don't have the money or time to set it up - plus I don't have my own place, I'm currently "borrowing" too much room in Dad's shed. If this place could speak we'd all be in trouble around here!

It might be something I'll look into in the future

Cheers

Bennie

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:47 pm

Jonno, here's where my window relays reside - I remember you asking after I flooded Ruby:

I'm glad I put them up there. It took a little while to work out how to mount it so it didn't foul the seat belt or protrude out so that the cover wouldn't fit. It's done the trick once and that's enough for me

The clutch adjustment issue - read about it here - I ended up using two washers to space the pivot ball forward. The gearbox is back on the engine and all's going well with the relation to the fork pivot and the clutch pressure plate - the engine turns over and there's no noise so it's all good. Here's one of the reasons why my adjustment has gone:

And here's the washer trick:

Most of today was spent waiting for paint to dry! Actually it was fish oil but anyway. Later in the arvo I was waiting for paint to dry, and it dried a lot quicker than I expected. Here's the work done so far today:

I doesn't look like a lot - but there's at least two coats of rust converter/sealer, a layer of fish oil and a thick coat of rust protection enamel plus a lot of chipping away of the sound deadener to clear out all the sand - it was right under the sound deadener, any little crack it could get through it did. I was surprised how far it got!

So now the floor is all painted and the door seams painted and dried. I'm going to do the underside with the kill rust enamel so it'll be dry for tomorrow (Wed), hopefully this will allow me to get Ruby Scoo off the rotisserie and I can start re-installing the front and rear suspension. Then from there everything else can go back on

I'm looking forward to it!

That's it for now.

Cheers

Bennie

taza · Post by **taza** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:46 pm

Looking good mate

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 2:04 pm

taza wrote:Looking good mate

Looking even better now:

And this should be dry enough to install after lunch (which will be after this post). I looked at it with it's surface rust and couldn't just re-install it so I hit it with the angle grinder wire wheel as much as I could and then gave it a good licking of Killrust black enamel. It'll be interesting to see how long it lasts:

Getting very excited now, having the rotisserie removed is a BIG step forward on this project, it wasn't a lot of work to remove it but it means that everything under Ruby Scoo is done

Back to the shed for me

Cheers

Bennie

ScubyRoo · Post by **ScubyRoo** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:07 am

Loving the attention to detail bennie, looking great!

FROG · Post by **FROG** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:05 am

[quote="steptoe"]PHWOAR you are keen - give you that much !!

[quote]

I think Jonno said it best PHWOAR!!!!!

The Loyale · Post by **The Loyale** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:22 am

Bennie,

This might have been posted somewhere in here, but what is the black stuff you are sealing the floor with? Might be interested in getting something like that for my EA82.

POR-15 is what I've always used, maybe there is an Aussie secret!

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:10 pm

The Loyale wrote:Bennie,

This might have been posted somewhere in here, but what is the black stuff you are sealing the floor with? Might be interested in getting something like that for my EA82.

POR-15 is what I've always used, maybe there is an Aussie secret!

I've been using this stuff since I was a kid with projects that dad and I used to work on... Love the stuff! And hopefully it'll do the job I want it to

I don't think mine is one of them that's in the "3 step system"... I'll grab a photo of it later in the week

So the last couple of days I've been between things and had limited time to work on Ruby Scoo. She's coming along well though!

Since putting the rear end in I've got the engine, gearbox, and front cross member installed. Today I got the gearbox crossmember and lift blocks bolted in, I thought I'd stripped a captive nut (the one that I replaced!) but it turned out good once I got the torque wrench out to really test it out - I figured that if it did strip out I'd still be "doing it up" for a long time and if this happened it would be the best time to drill and heli-coil it.

Not needed though

So I got the rest of the front end in - radius rods, hand brake cables, front struts and lift blocks followed very closely by the front wheels:

Also with the advice of some fellow board members here I painted some of the floor with sound deadener - the motosport brand (I think). Going to get a bigger tin in the next couple of days to do the rest that I want to cover. Once that's done it's time to get the interior back in! Can't wait.

Cheers

Bennie

The Loyale · Post by **The Loyale** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 6:46 am

I never thought about Epoxy paint. Good show! I will indeed have to buy some of that. Thanks!

The L is looking good, keep it up!

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 5:19 pm

The Loyale wrote:I never thought about Epoxy paint. Good show! I will indeed have to buy some of that. Thanks!

Yep it's the same stuff:

The Loyale wrote:The L is looking good, keep it up!

Cheers mate! I've now got all the sound deadener I want painted on - 5 litres of the stuff in total! Crazy but good:

Tomorrow the interior will start to go back in

I've got some wiring to do that will slow things down but it's going to be good. I'm looking forward to it!

Cheers

Bennie

NachaLuva · Post by **NachaLuva** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:20 pm

Awesome job Bennie...you're doing it to last