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suzi-fan-22
Joined: Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:31 am Posts: 499 Location: Ipswich
Vehicle: Sierra Ute '87 Sj70
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i am wrecking a sierra ute at the moment just thinking if i can cut the body back of the cab off and welding it to the front of a cut down hard top my reasons for this is that the ute cab is full of rust and hard to find and expensive just wondering on ideas cause i really badly want a ute
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steak_knife

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Joined: Fri May 22, 2009 11:30 pm Posts: 21335 Location: Smart Ass Island
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Ute's love to rust in the lower back panel anyway, so you may be better off cutting down a tin top & making the cab that way, of try get your hand's on a maruti cab & cut up a soft top, but good luck with the maruti cab..
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xedent

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Joined: Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:30 pm Posts: 895 Location: Sunshine Coast, QLD
Vehicle: LWB Maruthi on WT Diffs!
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 Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:25 am |
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You have one that you can sell him dont you stekky ?
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steak_knife

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Joined: Fri May 22, 2009 11:30 pm Posts: 21335 Location: Smart Ass Island
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xedent wrote: You have one that you can sell him dont you stekky ?
Nope, sold it........ to the guy I bought it off...
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xedent

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Joined: Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:30 pm Posts: 895 Location: Sunshine Coast, QLD
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lol
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suzi-fan-22
Joined: Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:31 am Posts: 499 Location: Ipswich
Vehicle: Sierra Ute '87 Sj70
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 Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:32 am |
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well do you think its worth keeping the cab and fixing it? here
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steak_knife

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Joined: Fri May 22, 2009 11:30 pm Posts: 21335 Location: Smart Ass Island
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 Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 8:15 am |
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Take the try off & look at the sloped bit near the base of the cab, give it a few tap's to with the handle of a screw driver..
A sierra has to be very frucked to not want to save it, a ute more so...
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Scrawny

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Joined: Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:30 pm Posts: 10528 Location: Brissie
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suzi-fan-22
Joined: Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:31 am Posts: 499 Location: Ipswich
Vehicle: Sierra Ute '87 Sj70
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 Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 8:21 am |
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true i was thinking of wrecking but i want the chassis and body and ill upgrade to a 1.3 and a tube tray and winch bar wt diffs mabye a exo or internal cage just for like a tuff weekender
what do you think about a rust repair or:
a coily bodied zook or
a leafy body replacement?
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steak_knife

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Joined: Fri May 22, 2009 11:30 pm Posts: 21335 Location: Smart Ass Island
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ScrawnC wrote: DON'T CUT THE TINTOP!!!

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suzi-fan-22
Joined: Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:31 am Posts: 499 Location: Ipswich
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steak_knife wrote: ScrawnC wrote: DON'T CUT THE TINTOP!!! 
are your serious??
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Scrawny

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Joined: Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:30 pm Posts: 10528 Location: Brissie
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suzi-fan-22 wrote: steak_knife wrote: ScrawnC wrote: DON'T CUT THE TINTOP!!!  are your serious??
There's not enough tintops left now!
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suzi-fan-22
Joined: Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:31 am Posts: 499 Location: Ipswich
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But I'd rather kill a tintop to save a ute
Wouldn't you? But what I'm asking would it fit and what would be the best option? For cost and practabiltity and of course looks
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Fatzook

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Joined: Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:30 pm Posts: 14977 Location: The Hills
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suzi-fan-22 wrote: But I'd rather kill a tintop to save a ute Wouldn't you? But what I'm asking would it fit and what would be the best option? For cost and practabiltity and of course looks
Cheapest option is to sell them all and just buy a clean ute.
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want33s

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Joined: Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:30 pm Posts: 8134 Location: Sunshine Coast Qld
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If you are going to cut the back wall off a ute to join to a tintop leave the ute roof intact and cut at windscreen pillars... Smallest joining welds possible makes for a neater and stronger final result.
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Rhino

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Joined: Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:30 pm Posts: 928 Location: Sunny Coast
Vehicle: 79 Lj80 stockman 94 swb Sierra
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Why not chop the tintop and glue the bum or tailgate off that to the back. That way if you stuff it up you still have a ute cab to fall back on.
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Crunched
Joined: Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:30 pm Posts: 684 Location: Sth Bris
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want33s wrote: If you are going to cut the back wall off a ute to join to a tintop leave the ute roof intact and cut at windscreen pillars... Smallest joining welds possible makes for a neater and stronger final result.
Agreed. And when you do chop the roof off your ute, sell it to me. Mines got a few dints in it, and repairing roof dints is virtually impossible.
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suzi-fan-22
Joined: Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:31 am Posts: 499 Location: Ipswich
Vehicle: Sierra Ute '87 Sj70
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The roof is dinted like crazy has a minor hole was rust repaired but the didn't even grind the welds back
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