Recent content by PHOENIX-GER

I am sorry the original brushguard is not for sale. And yes its expensive. We import 95% of all needed parts. We got the truck 1995 without brushguard and troopseats. To become him original we purchased these missing parts during the restoration process But i have seen during our search several...

Yes for compressor. Will be installed in the enginecompartment. We have airhorns. At the beginning should this be our working truck. So this was planned for airtools as well. But as this is now an oldtimerrestoration its just for small things you will face by Camping. We plan to visite...

Our stencils arrived wednesday Not a cheap solution but exactly what we want. We ordered also the stencils for the trailer as shipping and taxes are 45% on top. It's absolutely worth the money. Comes with good instruction and a squeegie Today we run several test paintings. It need a sensitive...

1Love let me know how it works for you. Usually the adjustment should be able with the original shims. We had a lot of them in different thickness with the stock doors and fenders. With the aftermarket doors and fenders installed 1995 with the red painting needed we just the half of them.

The next for customizing was the Battery Mountingplates. We bought the truck in 1995 without Batts and missing Mountingplates. So we had always used customid plates by ourself. For the Vartas we bought 2021 didn't we adapt the old plates as he gone in Frame-Off-Restoration. The old plates was...

It took a lot of hours specially the doors. These are aftermarket doors we bought 1995 after purchase. Original the truck had a lot of dents of his army time. So he got new doors, new fender and a new hood in 1995 before he was paint in red as business truck for our metalcompany. Nothing is more...

This small 2 to shop crane does always a good job for us Could be more exactly adjusted but it's not possible between fenders, doors, front and cowl to vent....

Continue to prepare the hood assembly. This will be a difficult job by just 4 hands. The vent to cowl assembly needed some customized pins as the original was gone I found some used in the USA for sale but with import fee and tax not worth that money as its the same condition like ours. So i...

4 weeks ago we was already at this point and than the horn failure occur and had some minor other annoying problems with it. Now all is solved - we really have now enough of electric mysteries... 🤣 The adaption of the mil speaker for the cb radio work well. The dashboard speaker for the...

On wednesday we got the new switch. After assembling we had a headlight Failure. No more headlights passengerside, no more highbeam both sides, Parklight avaiable both sides 🤨 I thought i got crazy. After control and measure the result was no failure inside the truck.... so we search between...

During solve the mess under the dashboard occurs a new failure The light switch is gone Looks innocent but don't work anymore. Available in Germany for 80 Euro or i import myselve 45 Euro all taxes and shipping include for an ACDelco Switch

The horn is working nicely now This small bad boy was the cause it seems 45 years ago was the relais without a diode and this was added on the connection. After i noticed the new relais have already the diode include was it just a cut off from this old bad boy of the past Now where the...

After checking every possible cable connection, I finally located the horn relay with a faulty diode. I had already suspected it, but since it was so difficult to access, I saved it for last.😂 After running out of time again yesterday, I've postponed the repair until next Thursday (Christian...

The panels come out not exact matching but it is the best result. Next RAL Code is darker We start measurement about the horn "problem" but couldn't solve it today. About other duties could we check today just two possible reasons. First the horn button at the steering column work like...

The mirrors come out perfect and the black screws look much better I opened the cableplug for remove it The day ended with detecting an electric failure. The horn have always power. I start on the steering column. All switches and connection work correct. Next week i will continue...