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The plan is now to strip it down abit more and still keep it mobile.
I spent a hour this afternoon trying to free up the bolts that hold the rear of the cabin cover plate.
I am still deciding if I am going to replate the upper sides of the hull or just keep on patching the thing.
I have a plasma cutter and good mig.(but no folding gear and no big shed to work in)
I will wait until,the days get longer before doing any of this.
I have plenty of work in cleaning up the stuff I have taken off.
I need to find that coolant leak.......not that easy as it is coming from the header tank hidden in apart of the truck I have not gotten to yet.
In every thing I look at I find more work.
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just a up date.
I am finding plenty of work just painting stuff I have stripped off the back of the thing.
There are about 40 alloy plates like this which take about an hour to sand blast the larger ones due to the shape and amount of paint on them.
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The main engine cover has come back today with new folded gal steel strips in place and a alloy bottom plate and stiffeners in place of the badly corroded steel ones it had.
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The bilge pump is supprizingly American made and I will need to make a strainer for it.
The folding troop/gunner seat frames have been painted and strenghten as they were bent and tend to be used as a jump down landing point when going from the cabin to the cargo area.
new cushion bases have been made and are getting covered.
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The passenger cabin seats are all finished.
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The large plate which holds the jerry cans and is the floor plate over the radiator is corroded underneath on its stiffiners, so it has been sent off to get some new steel folded.
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Nice work there Ron.
So when do you expect to have it in usable road condition.
Garry
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This thing is going to take me years to do it right.
It is driving and historic plates now.........but is not reliable and not to a standard I am happy to drive it around anywhere.
Time and then money are the main problems.
Working for myself and a young family makes it hard.
I also want to fit a Jolly Engineering electronic ignition conversion kit to it as the standard twin points set up is a nightmare and needs to be set up with the dist on the bench and special tools used to set it up correctly.
The size and scale of the vehicle makes it hard.
I have nearly used 8 litres of paint so far and I couldnt tell you where it went.
If I remember correctly the last time I painted a landrover 4 litres did the job.
If I was retired things would move much quicker.
Ron
PS
I have a jeep ,101 landy, B40 BSA,US6 studebaker to maintain and some other toys of my mums in the the big picture of things.
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A few old pics
A REME version with a tank power Pak in it, a Atlas crane with safety valving to install the power pak and various tools.
Note the different rear canopy and the carrier bolted to the rear tail gate just above the water line.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...011/08/961.jpg
Fuel/water resupply was a major roll of the Stolly
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Even the fact my Stolly is set up as a gun limber/tractor they were never used in that roll.
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So you going to call it the "Titanic":o.
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I have been thinking of a name for it.
The family farm is called Leebold
My ultralite plane was called skybold.
My current boat is called Seabold.
I will have to sell my current boat to keep the stolly , so I think it will be Seabold unless I uncover a name whisle sanding back the paint work.
