Farm Fresh 620

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the_lowdown
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Farm Fresh 620

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I recently acquired this 2 owner original truck from a local farmer. Its a bit beat up around the edges but over all its in pretty good nic!
Drove it home from north canterbury and ran like a champ all the way.
Just planning on tidying it up and doing bits and pieces as time and money permits.
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Keep the updates coming. :thumbsup:
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Is that really ALL you're planning on doing to it, Hamish? :poke:
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broke wrote:Is that really ALL you're planning on doing to it, Hamish? :poke:
Hey shush you, get back in the garage! :lol:
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Decided to strip the front end down and start repairing the damaged guards, both sides were in the same condition, Im guessing it must have miss judged the farm gate a coupe of times... :?
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Was going to work out more economical to replace the left front guard than fix the existing one so i sourced a second hand one which happened to be a taiwanese repo panel anyway so was in pretty good condition. Striped all the panels down then sent them off for blasting.
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Quick progression, your certainly getting right down to it

Nice work and cool little truck.
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Installed D21 hubs and spindles while the guards where off. The inner panels where in really good condition so gave them a clean up and re underseal too. Might just need to skim the discs and see how the master cylinder performs or upgrade to a larger bore.
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Sacrificed the wheels off my daily and threw a free set of tyres at them to give me something to play with, will atleast go to a lower profile later but for now its a starting point.
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The wheels are 8" with 215's and stick out of the stock guards by about an inch. I want to keep the truck looking fairly clean so I ended up removing the lower edge of the stock arch and persuading a pair of 510 wheel arches i had into place giving me a bit more tyre coverage and i also welded them on about 15mm lower than standard to help creep a bit more low when i get to the final height.
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