UAZ 452

[Somecallmetimm]

I love it! Keep up the good work!

 

[Jvdkooij]

The UAZ's interior has been replaced, but since we will take guests with us, we need to have enough seats of course.
For that purpose we had already bought 4 extra chairs. With the 2 already available we have 6. For now we will mount only 5 seats.
For the sixth place we are looking for a folding chair, but this is only needed later.

The chairs looked ok, but we decided to restore them anyway.

So, first, we took them apart

IMG_1008 by Jaap van der Kooij, on Flickr

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Before and after

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Filling of the seat

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In the meantime we found a new passengerseat with a big discount

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After restoring we started the rebuild

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Try out of the set up as we had it in mind

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Still a lot of space for the cargo

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Ow, that is too short

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Luckily we have plenty of space so we moved the middle seats a bit backwards

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Seats must be secured properly

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Fitting in between, the frames are painted black again

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der Kooij, on Flickr

Fixing the seats

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With self-locking nuts of course

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Showing the new seatcovers

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And this is how it looks

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der Kooij, on Flickr

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We still have to do a lot of small things, but we will manage that of course.
On Friday the new tyres will come, and then we will be able to go to the mountains without any worries

 

[DanCooper]

Very, very nice! Lots of hard work, and I love the meticulous attention to detail. I just hope you don't feel too bad when your first client spills that GIANT sized drink all over the new wall panel, seat cover, and floor. You are doing a great job!

 

[Jvdkooij]

Well, as promised I have to finish the story for now after we returned from our trips.

We got the new tyres, as said before we bought the 215/90.

IMG_1257 by Jaap van der Kooij, on Flickr

Mounting and balancing the tyres (although I am not sur balancing will do anything with these tyres)

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Frontwheels

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All new tyres:

IMG_1271 by Jaap van der Kooij, on Flickr

Besides a lot of small things we also isolated the hood a bit as it was getting very warm. Over this we put a layer of self-adhesive carpet.

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During the trip we had to do some repairs as we expected, but it is an UAZ of course

After the trips we evaluated the UAZ and found a lot of things we still want to change.
1. Motor upgrade so it will run a lot better on 92, as it is now for 80. We hope to get some more power out of it.
2. Replace the carburator for a more efficiënt model
3. Replace the shocks as they are completely gone
4. Repair or replace the gearbox, it is not-synchronised and second gear is horror
5. A lot of small stuff….

For now we put the UAZ in the garage, so it will survive the Siberian winter.

IMG_1409 by Jaap van der Kooij, on Flickr

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Thank you all for looking/reading and all nice comments.