Passed at last.

So in the last days of 2019 I managed to get all the work done and get the Rusty one through yet another MOT inspection.

A couple of advisories on the sheet but nothing to worry about.

Instrument binnacle lamps are fine but dull compared with the centre aux lamp illumination but all bulbs work as they should.

The LT230 transferbox needs to be replaced at some point in the near future as the intermediate shaft is leaking, I see no point in doing the O ring bodge as you have to remove the transferbox anyways and I might as well do it once and just replace the darn thing than remove it, tinker and then remove it again in a years time to replace it.

Well then, what next...............

Little Bit More Rot

So the MOT was all bad.

Well not all bad but pretty bad considering how much I have done to this thing in the last year and a couple of months.

My own faux par was the fact that I forgot the little rust hole in the chassis tubular cross member side plate, I forgot to plate it, my bad 😢

But oh my it was all bad, much worse than I thought.

I freely admit that I did't even look at this bit of the chassis, should have done now I suppose.

Yellow crayon says it's bad.

Got the die grinder out and cleaned it up a bit to see how bad.

Ooops, that's a new hole, not good.

Had to cut the angle of the rear foot well to gain decent access to get it sorted.

In we go, cut out the rot, weld in some fresh 2mm plate and get it primed and seam sealed.

Side triangle got a fresh plate and that hole on the inside got plates too.

Primed and seam sealed with clear PU adhesive sealant, just need a top coat to make it pretty lolz.

MOT and it was bad, all bad.......

MOT time after 14 months of hell.

So after 14 months of hell on the sporadic rebuild it was time, or at least so I thought to take it for the MOT test (here in the UK we have an annual Ministry Of Transport test for road worthiness).

Booked it in and got a great date, Friday the 13th 😟😟😟😟😟

Oh yes, it was as bad as it sounds.

Seems the tester is a bit more thorough than his predecessor and hammered just about everything to within an inch of it's life.

Oh deep joy, all doable but some shockers in there I can tell you, getting tired of this project now and it's starting to take far longer and becoming far more involving than it seemed at first, guess I'll just keep plugging away.