Thread: A well used 80''called Klonk

great to see the progress, especially the reminders of post three.
I bet you didn't think you would be doing this for over five years!
looking great!

Originally Posted by harry

I bet you didn't think you would be doing this for over five years!
looking great!

Ha Harry your right. I told the blokes at work ,that in a couple of years and I'll be able to take the kids for a ride in the back of it. Now they are saying that I'll be able to take the grandkids as well .

Well the last couple of weeks Ive completed the soft top frame and now have the canvas on.
I had a hoop to copy and worked out the side supports by trial and error to get a good fit between the windscreen frame and the door tops. At work I used a hand operated pipe bender to bend the hoops and a 100 ton press to squash the tube ends on the side tubes.
Next is to repair the ventilator flap under the windscreen. It has broken studs that clamp the flap closed.

Cheers Steve

Well have been held up abit waiting for some helicoils to repair a couple of stripped threads in the engine block. So have Sorted a couple of little jobs. The first was to repair the ventilator. The studs that hold the clamps were broken , so I made some threaded plates to replace the broken ones and screwed some new studs in.

Next I got the indicators working properly, the flasher unit Id bought needed load resistors to make it work as I used LED lamps but I wasnt happy to do that because I had run a small 4 core wire through the windscreen frame up to the switch in the center and to the pilot light. So I found a flasher unit that works LEDs on modern cars and had to adapt the wiring circuit and harness to suit. This flasher unit needed two pilot lamps, left and right which I couldnt do, so after some thought I used a diode off each side circuit onto the pilot lamp feed and it worked well.

Next job was to make a new grill badge as Im missing one. I wanted to put Klonks name some how on him. I thought about the usual number plates but didnt like that and vinyl lettering but didnt know where to put it, but had a eureka moment while thinking about the front grill badge. I have a mate who uses white metal ,so can pour a new one in a sand casting. So a mold was made and hopefully this weekend, poured.

The helicoils finally turned up and the hole repairs done,but not that easy for one hole. Someone in the past had stuffed it up by trying to drill out the broken stud but had wandered off the bolt into the block and then taped the crooked hole leaving half the broken stud . This was repaired by making a cast iron plug, which was screwed into a theaded oversized hole, then the correct size hole redrilled and the helicoil fitted because I just broke through the side of the plug so strenghtening the repair.

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The rest of the thread repairs.

The sand casting and mold, google was a big help with this. Will paint it the same colours as the land rover one.

And the dummy engine oil filter I turned up. I stole that idea from the Uk series One club which make and sell them , But the exchange rate and cost of freight made it too expensive. Lucky work has a nice lathe. The filter is a fleetguard LF3614. I chose this one because it filters down to 20 microns, a normal engine filter only goes down to 40 microns. It needs to filter smaller particles as its job is a bypass filter and is not a fullflow one as per normal. The filter is on the small side but At $5.00 each ,its cheap to replace.

Cheers Steve

Nice work Steve.
I was thinking of making a filter housing up too. I put a NOS one on the Tickford when I built it and its still there. I am not putting many miles up though.
Did you make a end cover for the bottom?
Keith

IMAG1010.jpgIMAG1012.jpg I bought mine from the S1 Club UK , it takes a Ford Focus spin on filter. It cost just under $200 delivered but I had sold a genuine Rover bypass filter with the Rover transfer on the side on Ebay for the same sort of money, I had bought it & 2 other AC filters at a swap meet for $40 about 10 years ago so I recon it didn't cost me anything. I had fitted one of the AC on Landy & the other on my P3 Rover.