Chris Green90
Well-Known Member
First post over here in the 120 section so I'll apologise now for the lack of piccies but I am terrible at taking photo's while I'm working.
Had another visit from Trev and his 120 last week. (Always fun.
)
Now remembering how much of a cold ass he is and that the temperature was due to drop I though it best that I upgraded my workshop heater.
So with Trev a happy "Warm" bunny (He took 3 layres off before 9am but still had 3 on mind) I put him to work before we started cleaning up the rust from the Landy we had had in the day before.
I though it best to put him to work as I knew this (see photo below
) would be his most common pose for the next 2 days.
tut tut tut tut didn't even keep up with his coffee making duties.
But enough of that silliness time for some pics of the build. or at least the final stages.
The brief for this project was to have some sliders made for the 120 but Mrs Trev put her 2p in and made the decision that she didn't like tread plate or the open bar look so a new plan had to be formulated.
After a looksey on Toyodiy it appeared that the OE side steps are in 3 parts. 1 ally and 2 plastic. so we planned, over the phone without ever looking at the vehicle that this would be the basis of the plan
Basically replace the ally "step" and skinny supports with some beefy steel and refit the plastics ontop.
So I guess this is the basic Skeleton of the slider. IMHO they sit alot lower than I would like, nearly 2" below the sill. This can and will be altered for our production products but to get the plastics in this is what had to be done. Even done this way though they still run level with the chassis rails so all good on that front.
Next we attached the first set of plastics.
And this is the finished product.
Had another visit from Trev and his 120 last week. (Always fun.
)Now remembering how much of a cold ass he is and that the temperature was due to drop I though it best that I upgraded my workshop heater.
So with Trev a happy "Warm" bunny (He took 3 layres off before 9am but still had 3 on mind) I put him to work before we started cleaning up the rust from the Landy we had had in the day before.
I though it best to put him to work as I knew this (see photo below
) would be his most common pose for the next 2 days.
tut tut tut tut didn't even keep up with his coffee making duties.
But enough of that silliness time for some pics of the build. or at least the final stages.
The brief for this project was to have some sliders made for the 120 but Mrs Trev put her 2p in and made the decision that she didn't like tread plate or the open bar look so a new plan had to be formulated.
After a looksey on Toyodiy it appeared that the OE side steps are in 3 parts. 1 ally and 2 plastic. so we planned, over the phone without ever looking at the vehicle that this would be the basis of the plan
Basically replace the ally "step" and skinny supports with some beefy steel and refit the plastics ontop.
So I guess this is the basic Skeleton of the slider. IMHO they sit alot lower than I would like, nearly 2" below the sill. This can and will be altered for our production products but to get the plastics in this is what had to be done. Even done this way though they still run level with the chassis rails so all good on that front.
Next we attached the first set of plastics.
And this is the finished product.
Nice that the real sliders are not visible and keep Mrs Trev happy 
and then snorkel 
Posted from phone cause thats where the pictures were. Would have thought that someone as smart as you would have fixed the forum to rotate pics the right way round automagically 
