Grizz’s Purgatory, Rezin Rockit 🚀 SUMMERTIME FUN 18/09/23

Simple, needs to stay simple, trying to keep stuff together that is together.

But who knows, maybe we do end up with a Frankenstein

The 'scope of application' part looks interesting. 

I've always said that vehicles here should be so equipped, given how long they sit in traffic jams then idling outside shops to keep the air-con running. Low mileage is meaningless in Manila and unless you keep the vehicle for 40 years, high mileage is impossible!

Having a day job, rubbish weather and life in general can all get in the way of a good story.


Another small job done today on the Rezin Rockit build process during my “lunch hour” break .

We had a load of rain and some snow early in the morning.

Driveway temperature was 4’C when I was getting this done, chilly.

As much as I dislike this whole Corona virus and how it has turned our worlds upside down, I am massively thankful for still having a job that I can do successfully from home, despite it not being very rewarding as the old way was. BUT...... my daily commute of a minimum of 60 miles or 100km taking me a minimum of two hours, means that one can add a bit of travel time to your own agendas.

So today I needed to move a 3/4 ton bag of sharp sand from under the carport to behind the garage.

Also some 25kg bags of building gravel and more bags of kiln dried sand.



Opening up some space.



For the Rezin Rockit as originally planned.

So getting it through here between the caravans.



Managed that, with a 3 ton jack under the rear differential and some careful force.



Resulting in it getting reversed into position so that I can get to it for some of the preparation work.





So in a way I have made it to one of the goals set originally

A dry workspace for the future.

Still needs more work to be done and some weatherproofing.

Oh, and it is the weekend.

Well......

Did you, did you buy it?

Your thermometer indicates exact the same temperature as here in Australia. Yours on the left ours on the right hand side.

Not much done with the Rezin Rockit recent;y, day job, weather and other jobs getting in the way.

In fact hit a bit of angle iron which slowed me down for the time being till I figure out or get advised on how to deal with it.

Started off by getting up inside the passenger A-pillar and removing the rear view mirror.



Then over to the drivers side.



My back has been fighting me really badly for some time now and I have been referred for spinal surgery, but I am stalling.

Slithered in there, upside down




Looking up the A-pillar and toward the window frame, you can see there is a length of angle iron incorporated in the frame.

This needs to be dealt with, in order to figure out how to remove the frame.



Managed to get out of that upside down position, had gotten the one rear view mirror bolt unscrewed, then used a long screwdriver to lock the 10mm bolt in place and rotated the mirror around it, as there was no way to get spanner’s in there.

Done

If you look carefully at the bonnet of the car you will see that it had started to rain, made me chuckle as the carport roof was always planned this way.



Finally, managed to get one of the gutter bolts unscrewed from the frame.

The second one on the other side ended up just spinning, so will get done when I can rope Sally or Mickey in, to be my extra hands.



I actually gave up with trying to get it undone.


However, there will be more challenges, as I see as you can, there is angle iron running down from inside the A Pillar.

If anyone has previously removed one of these screens, please let me know how the easiest way would be.

Thanks.

If you’re definitely not going to be using the original screen, don’t waste loads of time and effort trying to get it off undamaged, only to throw it in the skip; just cut it off.

It has gotten worse over time, to the extent that my motorbike has been SORN for 3 years, I am too scared of dropping it, or not being able to handle it in tricky situations.

Not much fun as so much stuff just has to be by[assed, even going to sleep is actually a problem now, as I get spasms some nights as I nod off, that make me squeal like a girl and then leave me awake, too bloody nervous to try go off again in case it recurs, which is what happens often.


Growing old is not for sissies



I had hoped to be able to rescue it so that someone else could use it if needed elsewhere.

I had the front bull bar that I removed at the beginning, go off to Wales yesterday, along with the 65 C10 roof that I gave to a buddies son who is restoring a 63 panel van.

But, you are right, and maybe getting some new blades for Mickeys reciprocating saw today ( I have the day off work) and just cutting it off, is the right idea, then I can start to design and make up the plates and tabs plus mounting brackets for the Land Rover screen you donated to the project (Did I really just say PROJECT ? )



Ahh, right.

And do you get rainfall this time of year?