Land Rover Rustorashun and other shit

[Eddie Honda]

Still what do you expect for free from an Aberdeenshire Farmer!

Scrapie?

[MLOR]

Still what do you expect for free from an Aberdeenshire Farmer!

Scrapie?

Only if you are related to them...

[richardthestag]

here I find an a-post repair panel hammered over the rusty original a-post

At least you had an A post
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Still what do you expect for free from an Aberdeenshire Farmer!

new bulkhead time, almost certainly new chassis time also

Starts to get expensive

[christine]

Are door tops still £22 doors £ 40 rear doors , glazed £75 ?

The most awful thing i did..
An advert in the Friday Ad , "Early Range Rover top tailgate £60" .. I met the elderly gent, who said he used to work at a Land Rover dealership .He took me into his shed and showed me it . Brand fucking new ,but it had been tried on , as there were tell tale marks around the hinge holes ,where bolts had been screwed in , but still in a LR poly bag with handle hinges in another box ..So early, it wasn't even heated glass..! I bid 50 quid and it was mine.
A friend with a Dakar RR had it off me for the same money as his was rotten , ..took the glass out , put his heated glass in and fitted it to his RR . I recall him moaning that parts weren't quite interchangable and took an angle grinder to it , to fit it to his !!

[MLOR]

here I find an a-post repair panel hammered over the rusty original a-post

At least you had an A post
P1010378.JPG

Still what do you expect for free from an Aberdeenshire Farmer!

new bulkhead time, almost certainly new chassis time also

Starts to get expensive

Bulkhead and chassis already in stock

[richardthestag]

progress update, catching up with youtube stuff but ahead of beige which will get an update after I finish this... still got a foot in both camps but enough of that bollocks

On Sandy the Landy, lined up the new footwell and a-post, ready to weld in

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had to make up some repair sections to the inner - transmission tunnel area

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butt welded in good enough for a skim of filler and a brush of paint

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lifted the whole assembly back onto the car and confirmed that it still fit

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before welding it all into place. Here I had also unpicked the vent panel outer skin, what remained isn't worth writing about. outer skins are just in place for alignment checks

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remains of passenger side footwell and a-post were quite easy to remove

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this is the top of the passenger a-post, or what was left under the filler

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all cut out and ready to start the rebuild

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fucking thing! had this been for a customer then £1600 +delivery and VAT would have been a no brainer

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the horses are off to pastures new this weekend. New owner will be the blind landlord up at the Exmoor pub that I might frequent from time to time

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3 more episodes to come tonight

[mercrocker]

Better than Countryfile....

[richardthestag]

part 2 tonight

Here is the passenger side footwell, a-post and trans tunnel repairs all done

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open fronted barn is not the best but I do acclimatise to the shit weather

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brakes next, this is the off/drivers side, stripped it down ages ago, opted for a complete Britpart rebuild kit, lets see how good it is

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parts look noice enough, naturally I made up all the brake lines from scratch

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amused to find an m10 metric bleed nipple supplied in a sealed bag with an imperial threaded slave

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and the shoe springs are more than 5mm shorter which makes fitting them a cunt, and I do not use that word lightly in this case

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but it did all go together, I did not opt to fit the show adjusters supplied as mine were free moving and in great shape

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passenger side next, the hub seal had failed and shat axle grease all over the place which is why it is not fitted here.

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brief distraction to look at the daily, the steering has been a little heavy recently but suddenly was reluctant to self centre. This UJ on the intermediate steering shaft was seized solid on one plane

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had another on the shelf and rude health was restored

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2 more parts to come tonight

[richardthestag]

Better than Countryfile....

could do with that Julia Bradbury sort to give me a hand in the workshop

[richardthestag]

part 3

New customer work showed up last monday, very tidy and very late hard dash Vogue SE but with most of the Vogue SE bits removed

None of the following was due in any way to the current owner.

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It made it all the way from Cambridgeshire but conked less that 1 mile from centre of operations and had to be towed in. Merciless cranking and testing ran the battery down

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distributor cap is a cheapo Chinese cheese piece of crap, see how melted the terminals are!

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another test found bare wires in the loom that feeds the engine ecu

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removed the air suspension loom that was all still live and in a carrier bag tie wrapped to the os chassis rail

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after fiddling with loom connectors and earth points she fired up! noisily but fired up

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Best lob in some antifreeze, the cooling system is just water

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Blue clouds over Devonshite and dry rain # confused

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arty shot

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Next up brakes and steering on Sandy but dinner first