Stepho_62
19th June 2006, 05:34 PM
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G'day All
As some of you would already know I recently purchased a 110 Defender in Melbourne for my wife and I to go touring this wide brown land that we are lucky enough to live in.
The purpose of this thread is for me to track the project through its various stages and share with you the results, until I get to the position that I have a reasonably comfortable reliable vehicle that I'm confident to use for extended mainland touring.
I'll attempt to put my pics in links from an external site (Photobucket) to keep the server space to a minimum. They might be a bit slow to load but it will be worth it.
Anyone is welcome to comment, critisise, bag :rolleyes: or contribute in anyway they wish but the only thing I ask is please keep to the subject at hand and no hijacking the thread.:eek:.
So on with the show.
A bit about the vehicle. Its an Eastnor Green 1998 110 C/Chassis Defender which I purhcased from Ritter Automotive in Melbourne for the princely sum of $26,500. :o This was a bit more than I really wanted to pay at the time but it only had 33, 848k on the odometer the day I inspected it so i believe it was a reasonable buy. As you can see from the pic it came with a steel tray and a LowLine Canopy and Roof rack attached which will make a reasonable basis for a tourer. Appart from these 2 previously mentioned items it is reasonably standard and whilst not having been looked after terribly well it appears to have been serviced regularly and not thrashed.
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b165/Woger_Wabbit/Landy/LR2.jpg
The majority of the wear and tear has been caused by its home beside the sea at Lakes Entrance where the previous owner lived. I know very little more about the vehicles history.
15/05/2006
Well I got the vehicle home to Hobart and went through it fairly carefully. I removed the canopy and found that there was a fair bit of severe corrosion in the tray so first job was to have it removed, shot blasted and re sprayed using an industrial 2 pak enamel (Jotun) and a 2 pak Eastnor Green top coat.
The colour match wasn't to bad and definitely an inprovement on the green used by original tray fabricator :rolleyes:
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b165/Woger_Wabbit/Landy/2006_0621Image0003.jpg
18/06/2006
After haveing discovered during the re registration process in Tas that the tail lights were less than reliable and the back panel of the tray had been hacked a fair bit I pulled ALL the tail lights of the rear and replaced them with LED Jobbys I purchased off E-bay for about $265.00 This included a Tail/Brake/Indicator combo, A 30 LED Reversing Light and a 5 LED white numberplate light. I've fitted these on Sunday morning after cutting a couple of 350 x 100 Alloy plates to cover up the holes in the back of the tray. I brush painted these with the 2 pak Eastnor Green and dried them overnight in front of the heat pump:p
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b165/Woger_Wabbit/Landy/2006_0621Image0001.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b165/Woger_Wabbit/Landy/2006_0621Image0002.jpg
Grrrrrrr bloody Tasmanian weather doesn't get over 10 degrees some days and of course the sun rises at 0700 and is gone by 1640 so painting etc becomes a real challenge when u don't have a shed. But its all good. I'll post some pics shortly.
G'day All
As some of you would already know I recently purchased a 110 Defender in Melbourne for my wife and I to go touring this wide brown land that we are lucky enough to live in.
The purpose of this thread is for me to track the project through its various stages and share with you the results, until I get to the position that I have a reasonably comfortable reliable vehicle that I'm confident to use for extended mainland touring.
I'll attempt to put my pics in links from an external site (Photobucket) to keep the server space to a minimum. They might be a bit slow to load but it will be worth it.
Anyone is welcome to comment, critisise, bag :rolleyes: or contribute in anyway they wish but the only thing I ask is please keep to the subject at hand and no hijacking the thread.:eek:.
So on with the show.
A bit about the vehicle. Its an Eastnor Green 1998 110 C/Chassis Defender which I purhcased from Ritter Automotive in Melbourne for the princely sum of $26,500. :o This was a bit more than I really wanted to pay at the time but it only had 33, 848k on the odometer the day I inspected it so i believe it was a reasonable buy. As you can see from the pic it came with a steel tray and a LowLine Canopy and Roof rack attached which will make a reasonable basis for a tourer. Appart from these 2 previously mentioned items it is reasonably standard and whilst not having been looked after terribly well it appears to have been serviced regularly and not thrashed.
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b165/Woger_Wabbit/Landy/LR2.jpg
The majority of the wear and tear has been caused by its home beside the sea at Lakes Entrance where the previous owner lived. I know very little more about the vehicles history.
15/05/2006
Well I got the vehicle home to Hobart and went through it fairly carefully. I removed the canopy and found that there was a fair bit of severe corrosion in the tray so first job was to have it removed, shot blasted and re sprayed using an industrial 2 pak enamel (Jotun) and a 2 pak Eastnor Green top coat.
The colour match wasn't to bad and definitely an inprovement on the green used by original tray fabricator :rolleyes:
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b165/Woger_Wabbit/Landy/2006_0621Image0003.jpg
18/06/2006
After haveing discovered during the re registration process in Tas that the tail lights were less than reliable and the back panel of the tray had been hacked a fair bit I pulled ALL the tail lights of the rear and replaced them with LED Jobbys I purchased off E-bay for about $265.00 This included a Tail/Brake/Indicator combo, A 30 LED Reversing Light and a 5 LED white numberplate light. I've fitted these on Sunday morning after cutting a couple of 350 x 100 Alloy plates to cover up the holes in the back of the tray. I brush painted these with the 2 pak Eastnor Green and dried them overnight in front of the heat pump:p
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b165/Woger_Wabbit/Landy/2006_0621Image0001.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b165/Woger_Wabbit/Landy/2006_0621Image0002.jpg
Grrrrrrr bloody Tasmanian weather doesn't get over 10 degrees some days and of course the sun rises at 0700 and is gone by 1640 so painting etc becomes a real challenge when u don't have a shed. But its all good. I'll post some pics shortly.