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  1. 2nd June 2013, 10:53 PM #1
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    My first Defender

    Gday I'm Jake
    My Dad has bought me a Land Rover. It is a 1994 Defender 300tdi. He got it for $2000 because it has a blown clutch and a bit of rust in the firewall. We are going to fix it.

    We stripped the firewall, took out the floor and the gearbox.
    When we took out the gearbox cross member we found lots of rust in it and the chassis so today we fixed it.

    Tomorrow we are going to weld in new footwells in the firewall.
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  2. 3rd June 2013, 04:42 AM #2
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    That looks like a good project, I'm sure you will learn some new skills along the way

    Good to see the old truck pulling it home - usually it's the other way around!
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  3. 3rd June 2013, 07:17 AM #3
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    Thumbs up

    Good job....looks frightening to me, but your Dad obviously knows what he's doing.
    Cheers, Pickles.
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  4. 3rd June 2013, 07:55 AM #4
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    welcome to the forum - what a great way to learn about landrovers - by having a good project car, good on you and your dad
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  5. 3rd June 2013, 08:49 AM #5
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    Cool my first defender

    gday JJWA:

    welcome to the forum and good luck with the rebuild, nice truck you will have when ya get it finished.



    cheers wally
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  6. 3rd June 2013, 09:12 AM #6
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    Hi Jake,

    That's some tidy repair work there! Welcome to the forum!

    Cheers,

    Lou
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  7. 3rd June 2013, 01:24 PM #7
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    welcome good to see another wa on line
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  8. 3rd June 2013, 08:59 PM #8
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    Smile landy

    Hi Jake, Looks like you and your dad will be having fun working on the defender. Nothing a set of tools and a mig welder can't fix mate.
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  9. 3rd June 2013, 09:43 PM #9
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    Thanks everyone.

    Today we replaced the passenger side footwell. There is still a hole near the gearbox tunnel though so we are going to weld in a piece of angle line.

    Tomorrow we will do the drivers side.
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  10. 3rd June 2013, 09:58 PM #10
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    Welcome to the forum son. Good effort the last two days, it's interesting how much you have learnt already about measuring, marking, drilling (blunting bits), cutting, grinding, welding, sockets, imperial, metric, hammering, bashing, not giving up and last but not least safety!
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