Thread: Shonky's '58 Series II SWB

Originally Posted by Shonky

Thanks Troy!

You may have noticed the LRM sticker on the windscreen in some of the photos. That sticker I think came with the first LRM Mag I ever got - which featured your old Landy! I had just got my old girl at that stage and your story was a great inspiration to me! I was reading it just a few weeks ago when brushing up in preparation for getting properly stuck into the resto for the first time, and it served to once again reinspire me.

It's a small world, isn't it.

Andrew, it is a very small world. Thanks for the kind words mate. My ol mate has changed a bit since that article but is still is my pride and joy. Working on the next one now.

Hahaha! I've been trying to get the blasted thing off various times using various methods for 5 years!

I've tried heating, cooling, heating and cooling, cooling and heating, pulling, pushing, WD40, RP7, even Penetrene (which I don't think you can get anymore?)

I've used sockets, spanners, fingers, I tried drilling but the bolt just spun with the bit, I even managed to get a hacksaw blade between the back of the wing and the firewall and had a hack for a while until I cut myself... was damaging the wing anyway.

Hmm... maybe rather than grinding the firewall I could drill through it and into the back of the bolt...

Or maybe I could get to it with a Dremel?

On the other hand, I am either going to chuck that firewall in the bin or repair it, which will involve cutting some of that section out anyway.

I'm liking the Dremel idea at the moment actually. Shame I don't have a Dremel!

Originally Posted by olmate

Andrew, it is a very small world. Thanks for the kind words mate. My ol mate has changed a bit since that article but is still is my pride and joy. Working on the next one now.

No worries Troy.

Will be keeping a keen eye on your next buildup!

Thankyou whoever moved my thread into the correct section.

Was up at the farm on Thursday and Friday so I got a little more work done, however much of the time was taken up felling trees to be used for the new shed which will have power.

So really not a huge amount got done. I removed the drivers side floor panel, the trans tunnel / front panel and all of the bolts along the back of the seat box, but after two days of back breaking labour I really wasn't in the mood to crawl around in the dirt under the car and fight with frozen bolts. Due to this, I didn't get the passenger side floor panel or the seat box out in their entirety.

I did do a bit of work under the bonnet (well, the bonnet is sitting against the wall and has been for over a year, but you get the idea...) I removed the Carby, Manifolds (and exhaust - it was only held on in two spots and the tip was in front of the rear wheels, which I seem to remember being a violation of ADRs...?) I also removed the head and was surprised that the head gasket (which I was told had blown) was actually fairly new and intact. I'm now entering very unfamiliar territory here... I know the basics about engines but in terms of rebuilding one, I'm in uncharted waters.

I did take pics, but I'm at work at the moment (of course - what else do I do at work... :P) and silly me left my hard drive at home. I will upload them tomorrow.

While I was scrummaging through the pile of bits that I retrieved from the other Landy when I got this one (read Post #1 again if that doesn't make sense) I found a set of free-wheeling hubs and brought them back to Sydney to fiddle with. Yesterday was spent with a toothbrush and a can of petrol cleaning them up and putting it all back together and working out how it works. Was very productive I thought. I can now say with confidence that I understand how free wheeling hubs work - something I couldn't before. This is what it's all about - learning!

Pics as promised!

Floor and trans panels removed:



My dirty but surprisingly rustless chassis:



When I gave this outrigger a good tap with the screwdriver, I got a nice, resounding "DING!" - a good sign apparently as it means that it isn't full of muck or rot. The forward fuel tank outrigger has a heap of dirt stuck in behind it, but externally looks ok. I guess I will find out when I get the seat box off.



Head off. Theres a lot of black crap in there, and spiders had snuck their way in through the exhaust! (Should have started it up! )



poor quality phone pic.



The underside of the head:

Gee that chassis looks good , I'm jealous!

Any luck with those wings yet?

Thanks Paul - Hopefully the rest of it looks like that! Next time I'm up there I will give it a bit of a scrub and get the dirt off and see what it looks like under all that greyish dust.

I still can't get the left wing off. I have pretty much resorted to leaving it there until the shed is done and then grinding out the door pillar.