Thread: 113-372

G'day All,
Yesterday afternoon, I grit blasted the steering wheel, gee the paint was hard to shift in places, I couldn't go any further with it, as I had no high gloss black paint
before the grit blast

and after

Most of today has been taken up with connecting batteries, checking that all lights/horns etc are in working order, everything was fine until I checked 112-655 aka gunbuggy, the blinkers wouldn't work (flasher can faulty) so another was sourced from the bowels of the shed LOL and presto they worked, but no brake lights, first thing I checked was the fuse box, both fuses OK, and just by removing the fuses was enough to make the brake lights work??? anyway in the meantime waiting for the 2 club officials to arrive, I turned my attention to the bonnet.
As I'm having time off in December, I'm trying to get as many panels ready for painting as is possible, so I started with grit blasting around the rivet heads, as it's near impossible to clean around them with orbital sander, and if your not carefull, you will sand off the round head in a flash

after doing the rivet heads I hit it with etch prime.
The underside of the bonnet (stiffening ribs) always get a little rusty, very hard to clean, I have in the past taken the bonnet to pieces, but this one isn't that bad, so I grit blasted it myself, still need to finish it off on the under side

I ran out of grit, I do have a supply of Illmenite, but I don't think swmbo would like her green lawn BLACK, the lawn is hers n the Poodle Patrol's LOL.
Anyway I turned it over and started to sand the top, when the lads from the club arrived at 1710hrs

by the time they had checked all 7 Land Rovers & 2 No5's tea was ready, they headed home, and I packed it all away after tea, hopefully I will be able to get some paint delivered and pick up more grit later in the week, in the meantime I will keep plugging away at the topside of the bonnet, cheers Dennis

G'day All,
Way too hot to be outside for too long, so I decided that I would paint the steering wheel boss, after having grit blasted it a few days ago.
I thought about how was I going to keep the paint off the spokes??, idea, why not use a small diameter drinking straw!!, I found what I needed in swmbo cupboards in the kitchen sshhhh don't tell her LOL.
I needed six straws, cutting them in half, then cutting them open along the length of the straw, I slipped them over the spokes, they fitted like the proverbial 'finger in a dog's a**e'.

the boss was then etch primed, and didn't take long to flash off, then a liberal coating of Gloss Black, and this is what it now looks like

I'm hoping the weather will be a bit kinder tomorrow, so I can etch prime the bonnet, anyway cheers Dennis

G'day All,
This was yesterdays effort, finish off the clean up of the bonnet so I could etch prime it all over, I still have to make a few minor repairs to the spare wheel bracket (I must have given away all the good ones I had!!) anyway I will be able to fix it.

This was the next job, I'm fabricating a aerial mount that I need for the LHS 113-372, this is going to be the top section, all marked out

and this is where it is now, all I need to do is mark the holes n drill them

I still need to buy a few pieces of steel to complete the job.
Nothing done today as I had to work, up at 0430, back home at 1500hrs, I have cleaned my Iwata spray gun though, I forgot about it yesterday LOL, just as well it's mine and not something that I might have borrowed anyway cheers Dennis

G'day All,
This afternoon after work, in the heat 37.5c, I fitted the sill rails to both sides of 113-372.
The items in question had been painted some time ago,
I have painted both sides etc of all fittings DBG one side and Gloss Black the other, etch primed/flat black on the sides you can't see.


here is the sill rail end with it's selection of nuts n bolts

and the RHS insitu.

I'm still waiting for a tubing bender from Brisbane (it must be coming via the Nth Pole) I need to remake the fuel lines, fitting them to the fuel tap and then make the bends up to the fuel tank pickup, anyway maybe it will arrive before 2013 LOL cheers Dennis

Hi Dinty,

What type of grit are you using for the grit blasting? Seems not to affect the aluminium at all.

Cheers,

James

G'day All,
From memory I think it's a Garnet/Aluminium % something, but I would have to ask where I bought it from. My favourite media is Illmenite, but it's way too expensive for me, cheers Dennis

Originally Posted by Dinty

G'day All,
I had painted the vent regulators earlier, well n truely dry, so I decided to fit permanently, the vent screens and regulators, that way I wouldn't lose any of the screws,

it got cold n damp quickly this evening, another cold night on the way, anyway, cheers Dennis

Sorry about all the questions about the vent screens but I have another question...

When I mount my screens, the top and bottom mount points fit on the part of the bulkhead that is double skinned (just like in your pictures) - no worries to run a self-tapper through there - but the mounts on the ends of the screen sections sit down 'inside' the fitting area - if I whack a screw through there it will actually come through into the rubber vent seal in front.

Is that standard?

Mounted like this, I will have a 1¼" gap between the two screen sections where the vent mechanism passes through.

Is this correct?

Thanks

G'day All,
Mate, the screws that hold the insect screens insitu are 2 different lengths, the screws that go into the 'double panels are 1/2" in length, the others that screw into the back of the vent seals are 1/4" in length, both are the same diameter, hope thats of some help, cheers Dennis