48932 'Widget' Minikegs Driveway

[Minikeg]

So I bought a Perentie for a daily driver, and from the auction finish on the wednesday to picking it up on the monday I had a wide grin plastered on my face that not even an entirely depleted bank account could wipe off.

From almost being born in one, to having grown up with my mother driving a ex-army IIA as a daily (some might know it as Castrol..) land rovers have been a large part of my driving life so i figured it was time to get one of my own

Enter 48932 - one of the rougher examples also made it one of the cheaper examples..


Grays waiting room


Grays 'stock-room' (48932 & 101148 in centre)


"Id keep her running mate, but theres so little fuel in her you may not make it to the servo" awesome first words when purchasing a car..


These two got bored while I took a bunch of pictures and made themselves comfy


Made it to the fuel station.. put 60l of diesel in (cost $90) to fill. Im lead to believe its a 65l tank so.. fuel gauge might be lying?


Notice I bought in the morning, and only got to put plates on at a random kfc at dusk? Yeh, thanks RTA. Got stuffed around regarding greenslips and trailer rego costs in a long story noone wants to hear.


Some bling for your keys provided


No key yet, kept it locked like this..


First wash


First trip


Up the watagans!


Crashed a wedding


A $2 matt black spray job (Carzee mentioned the 'extremely bad casting' of the pickhead, which was just caked on mud I sprayed black.. I figure a quick job will get that 'patina' of looking old but being a matching set quicker haha)


Beau from Canberra made me see double


Hope the camera man ducked..


Theres something nice to be said about coil springs..


Rear cargo lights



Interior cargo lights (separate circuit)

[Minikeg]

So the truck spent most of its time in Enoggera, transferring between these units

BRISBANE LOGISTICS BN - TECH SPT PL 11 SUP BN
52 CSP SUP - 5 TPT SQN WKSP
49 RQR
25/49 RQR
6RAR
8/9 RAR

8/9 RAR's mascot is 'Stan' a merino ram - hence its sprayed on the doors.

If anyone has any links to those units.. thats my best shot of finding any 'in-service' pics :-)

[Carzee]

  wonderful pics onthe first days. A wedding...
And how did you rig those interior lights? More info pls.

[FFRMAN]

Love the photo of the wedding, you should start a thread about photo bombs!

[stephendavis]

So the truck spent most of its time in Enoggera, transferring between these units

BRISBANE LOGISTICS BN - TECH SPT PL 11 SUP BN
52 CSP SUP - 5 TPT SQN WKSP
49 RQR
25/49 RQR
6RAR
8/9 RAR

8/9 RAR's mascot is 'Stan' a merino ram - hence its sprayed on the doors.

If anyone has any links to those units.. thats my best shot of finding any 'in-service' pics :-)

I had a girlfriend that was in the Qstore does that count

[Barefoot dave]

I was with 25/49 for 18months before snatching the pin.
So eventful and memorable that I took no photos.
Oh, wait, I did take a couple. But that was in the back of an ASLAV with a crewies camera that I found. You don't want to see those.....

[aussiegregmac]

Bldy Grunts in the back of the APC.   That's why we took to tying all their hands together with Zip ties.
And yeah, I was with 49 and then 25/49 for memorable times for a while.  Did drive an FFR around for a while but
no photos.  In those days weren't allowed to take piccies.  Weren't allowed mobile phones either.  Now they've got phones with cameras. 

[Barefoot dave]

Greg, when you were serving, an FFR WAS a mobile phone! That or 2 cans and a loooooong piece of string ;-)

[aussiegregmac]

OOooh OOhh.   not so,  not so..    In mah day we had radios sonny,   yeah , it were cuttin edge stuff too.
We had valves, and oscillators and stuff.  None o that modern transistor stuff.   Oh, so cutting.
Greg

[FFRMAN]

OOooh OOhh.   not so,  not so..    In mah day we had radios sonny,   yeah , it were cuttin edge stuff too.
We had valves, and oscillators and stuff.  None o that modern transistor stuff.   Oh, so cutting.
Greg

Did you just say that with a GoGo Mobile accent? that's sure how I read it! lol Oh No not the Dart!

[Phoenix]

Looks great, i'm very jealous!

[Hot Rover]

Rear cargo lights



Interior cargo lights (separate circuit)

Hi Minikeg
What sort of LEDs did you use in the rear? They light up really well.
Looks like you scored a good looking truck.
Cheers
Rod

[Minikeg]

Hi Minikeg
What sort of LEDs did you use in the rear? They light up really well.
Looks like you scored a good looking truck.
Cheers
Rod

I got a 5m roll of these
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/New-5M-White-SMD-5050-150-LED-Flle-Light-Strip-12V-Car-Auto-Citipower-/251412961625?pt=AU_Car_Parts_Accessories&hash=item3a89615959&_uhb=1

cost less than $10 shipped from hong kong to my door

went to bunnings, got the following 5m clear tubing for $15
http://www.bunnings.com.au/kinetic-13mm-x-5m-reinforced-pressure-hose_p4920237

got some of the following

2x right angle $0.70ea http://www.bunnings.com.au/poly-irrigation-holman-13mm-barbed-elbow-bge-mbe13be_p3110062

1x t piece $1 http://www.bunnings.com.au/poly-irrigation-holman-13mm-barbed-tee-beige-mbt13be_p3110061

2x end pieces $0.60 http://www.bunnings.com.au/poly-irrigation-micro-holman-13mm-barbed-end-plug-mbp13be_p3110069

a thousand $1 hose clamps http://www.bunnings.com.au/kinetic-6-16mm-304-stainless-steel-hose-clamps_p4920191

1x $2.50 generic cable gland from any electrical part store - rip the plastic nut off the back, insert/screw into hose end, hoseclamp. Tighten the other side around cable, completes the weatherproof seal. http://www.radioparts.com.au/product/16013000/m16-16mm-chassis-cable-gland-cable-grab-claw

maybe 3-5m of 3 core electrical cable to run from the 'contained environment' out through the cable gland and to your switch panel.. $5?

'circuit diagram' as follows; Both rear cargo lights go to one wire, the interior light goes to the other, and the 3rd is a shared earth


apply liberal use of hoseclamps and hopefully its more waterproofer than my canopy..

[Hot Rover]

Thanks for that Minikeg.

[Phoenix]

Nice work!  Any chance of a writeup in a word doc or PDF for the main website, some good advice there!