Re: Land Rover Rustorashun and other shit
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2020 6:46 pm
This site is getting better, I slipped to p2 within 2 weeks and was not pushed out by a load of boring shit that is of no interest to me!
Anyway getting out of TDW arse, what the fuck have I been up to? If you watch the channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuPaTT ... _4ypXxY0lQ you will know but still sometimes in print updates work better
I have a customer in Bodmin who owns two B suffix (Jan 1973 - Oct 1973) cars. his keeper was 1st registered on the day he was born. The other car is a parts car. We bartered my time to travel to his workshop, remove the running 1973 B Suffix v8 from the parts car and install it into his car. In exchange I get dash, roof and seats from the parts car - all needed for Bob. Anyway short youtube vid is here here is the parts car engine out, the clutch cover is borg beck but the plate has loose springs on it. So we opted to install the brand new borg and beck clutch that the customer had The dash is unmessed with, I don't get the steering wheel but should have everything else. The car is proper hanging, the chassis is ok but the whole body frame is sitting on the chassis rather than the body mounts. Both doors and fucked, every panel except the roof is dented. So even though this parts car is a matching number car I have no guilt at removing the engine. While I could deal with everything this car has wrong with it, I have better stuff in the polytunnel. Cannot save every one of them. The remains of this car will be sold as a parts / project. p.s. it is rusty bunged up the exhaust ports and got busy with the jizer and a pressure washer new spigot was also fitted, the OE part I bought from rimmer brothers was made from fucking cheese. Luckily another unit was available else this would have been a fuck up. oe + rimmers = cheese!! Be warned
Anyway, made up an alignment tool with threaded rod, two sockets and some tape. Worked perfectly and engine slipped onto the gearbox input shaft like a greased stick up a pigs arse My sisters car is up for MoT next week, the only real issues with this car that gets no attention from one year to the next was a service and a quick polish of the headlamps using a cutting compound and a cloth. Bob's chassis has been 3/4 painted, I spray painted it with a 2mm hvlp gun but had to crank the air up to 80psi. The paint is an epoxy paint by rustbuster called 1-2-1. good stuff but very gloopy. Needed to thin it 15% with the special thinners supplied. part 2 coming up
Anyway getting out of TDW arse, what the fuck have I been up to? If you watch the channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuPaTT ... _4ypXxY0lQ you will know but still sometimes in print updates work better
I have a customer in Bodmin who owns two B suffix (Jan 1973 - Oct 1973) cars. his keeper was 1st registered on the day he was born. The other car is a parts car. We bartered my time to travel to his workshop, remove the running 1973 B Suffix v8 from the parts car and install it into his car. In exchange I get dash, roof and seats from the parts car - all needed for Bob. Anyway short youtube vid is here here is the parts car engine out, the clutch cover is borg beck but the plate has loose springs on it. So we opted to install the brand new borg and beck clutch that the customer had The dash is unmessed with, I don't get the steering wheel but should have everything else. The car is proper hanging, the chassis is ok but the whole body frame is sitting on the chassis rather than the body mounts. Both doors and fucked, every panel except the roof is dented. So even though this parts car is a matching number car I have no guilt at removing the engine. While I could deal with everything this car has wrong with it, I have better stuff in the polytunnel. Cannot save every one of them. The remains of this car will be sold as a parts / project. p.s. it is rusty bunged up the exhaust ports and got busy with the jizer and a pressure washer new spigot was also fitted, the OE part I bought from rimmer brothers was made from fucking cheese. Luckily another unit was available else this would have been a fuck up. oe + rimmers = cheese!! Be warned
Anyway, made up an alignment tool with threaded rod, two sockets and some tape. Worked perfectly and engine slipped onto the gearbox input shaft like a greased stick up a pigs arse My sisters car is up for MoT next week, the only real issues with this car that gets no attention from one year to the next was a service and a quick polish of the headlamps using a cutting compound and a cloth. Bob's chassis has been 3/4 painted, I spray painted it with a 2mm hvlp gun but had to crank the air up to 80psi. The paint is an epoxy paint by rustbuster called 1-2-1. good stuff but very gloopy. Needed to thin it 15% with the special thinners supplied. part 2 coming up