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Raider 16 4x4 articulated -aka project bendy

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Top-job Mark, with a week off you should have it ready for Newby !!! :lol:

Chris,

If I can get it on the trailer with the other three it will be going, even if it's a stationary exhibit! :D

Btw I'm after a few raider parts if you have them in stock...

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An overdue update...

Thought I'd get in the action on fender repairs, by the time I welded up the holes in a c series fender, I thought it easier to weld up the very rusty raider fender.

Here it is with most rust cut out and patched

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And with the last patch in place

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Time for a short video showing the final transmission arrangement and steering.

http://youtu.be/S6zzlN8f1-0

And some pics with the body mounted and engine

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It was going to Newby, but now the GT is going there's no room... :(

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You got to take it to newby mark that was the only reason I was making the trip half way round the world was to get a picture of that next to my holder

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You got to take it to newby mark that was the only reason I was making the trip half way round the world was to get a picture of that next to my holder

That leaves me with the quandary of getting the steering coupling completed and swapping it with the GT. As it's not running under its own steam it will have to be towed too....

Back down south for 4 days at 3am, so time is tight.

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Fantastic, your sure you've been away, forget the GT you gotta bring that :coolphotos: theres still a few days yet !!. is it going to have front fenders Mark ?

I am slowly being talked round :D

Yes it will have front fenders....

It looks great with some bodywork on Mark, good vid as well :thumbs:

Thanks Ian

My god mark you'll be ready for a rest this weekend !

Got 4 days at work in London, not sure it will be a rest as I've been on hols for a week, so no doubt it will be mayhem!

Steering now complete-ish.... Very tight, with no play. The rubber damper will have to go, it made adapting discovery parts to beetle very easy, but it's twisting under load.

Engine is out as there's nothing to bolt to yet, there's no seat or fenders either. I did get 5 mins to offer the original raider footrests up, with a bit of cutting and welding they will fit just fine.

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So this is how it ends for a few weeks, will continue to see how it goes and whether the GT gets the boot in favour of bendy :)

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Short update....

Bendy made it to this years UK wheel horse round up and then back.... :D some of you saw it, the weather spoilt it off the rest.

I started on the footplates this week, using the original ones but reversed left and right.

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New bars for the footrests - a bit of rebar :D

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With the heavily modified plates back on

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Amazing how the original front angle works in reverse :)

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And with the seat on blocks to get the height

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Next stop, rear transmission strip down :D

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