Ok, finally! Here are the rest of the build pics - in collage!
^ L series interior light “mod” - it’s a HUGE upgrade over the stock unit (my original didn’t want to work but when it did, it wasn’t worth the effort!); now I can see stuff in the cab - and I haven’t installed an LED unit in there yet either! I also have to locate the cover, I’ve got it somewhere though as I grabbed it when I grabbed the rear discs from a converted wagon at M&D’s.
The L series interior light is also responsible for holding up the new roof mounted UHF radio. I’m very stoked how this turned out! No new holes or screws added to the brumby for this one. Inspired by my roof mounted UHF radio setup in Ruby Scoo. Everything is reversible back to stock quite easily.
The other two pics are a before and after of some wiring tidy up under the dashboard. I also replaced a plug that was melted due to experiencing some high resistance joints.
Brake work and painting:
I forgot to photograph the front brake transformation so I did it with the rear instead - where I also forgot to take a pic of the drum fitted, anyway, you get the idea! Much better setup over the drums. Also new braided lines fitted everywhere. Brakes are AMAZING now! Scorpions fitted with their sticker, completing the look they’re known for (and this owner was seriously missing the little black sticker!).
Smaller touches that make a huge difference:
Top pics - the faded decals. Bottom pics - painted up decals using a set of paint pens from office works. I’m not set on the red colour that the pen came out with but it looks far better than what it was before anything was done to the mud flaps. The front ones were painted in white over the Subaru logo. They look mint too! No pics of those though…
Bullbar fitment and we’re off:
With the bullbar paint up, fitted and the front mounted chopped sticker refitted; side badges and mud flaps painted up, Redback Brumby is looking awesome. It’s amazing what a couple of small details can do to distract from other bodywork “features”!
And we were finally off, second stop (after a servo) was the Deniliquin Ute on a Pole.
We made it to Barmedman to camp the night near their mineral springs pool. Neat little spot. Got rained on during the night, we were mostly dry, but got 95% of our stuff fully dried out before we left.
Then it was continuing on our way. Parked up brumby in Cowra, a couple of laps of Bathurst/Mt Panorama - worth the effort, I’ve got a new found respect for the race and the drivers! And a Bunnings that’s retrofitted into an old building in Lithgow - something I didn’t know they did, I found it interesting!
We had to swing by Shield’s Orchard this time since we had time to find it! At this time of year they’re closed because it’s not Apple season, but we snapped a pic out the front of their place with their main sign.
Then on to camp at Mt Wilson, pretty good camp ground, but felt like we could’ve been anywhere really - we were hoping for a real vibe of being in the Blue Mountains - really we could’ve been camping on Mt Macedon.
Next day we were off to Boxer Beauty to pick up some stickers - particularly the scorpion rim stickers to finish them off. Then off to cut a lap over the Sydney Harbour Bridge - aka our nation’s big coat hanger. Following this we buzzed around the Sydney CBD followed by parking at the harbour to snap a few pics like this one from earlier in the thread:
Ripper!
Then the big day. I won’t flood this thread with pics from the day, I’ll drop the link to that later. I will share these poser pics though!
On the Sunday we legged it home from the hotel same as last year. We headed up over the mountains and took a longer than anticipated detour to Evan’s Lookout. Well worth the effort!
We changed a bit of our route and went through Young and Urana rather than Grenfell and Narrandera. Good drive and possibly less hills but unsure about this.
We spied a brumby in Deni so grabbed some pics with that on our way past, then continued home. We arrived a bit after 9pm. My navigator held on but lost out 40mins before we made it home.
Awesome trip! Brumby ran mint the whole time. Issues we had:
- driving light wiring at the cab switch came off the back of the switch, sorted that by pulling the wiring and joining them together.
- pencil beam driving light, blown globe. Was working prior to paint work done on the rear covers.
- rear wheel nuts on the right decided they’d try to take a holiday on our way down the Sydney side of the Blue Mountains. I thought it was a rear wheel bearing issue. Easy fix, not an issue since (and I checked all nuts).
- no other issues I can remember, the brumby just ran like clockwork!
The plan now is to get the EJ turbo conversion sorted for next year’s Subinats25
That’s it for now!
Cheers
Bennie
The frequency of the roof glass coming off increased recently with the warmer weather. Just need to avoid the full sunshine as that BAKES you real good.