The bellhousing one I got off Ebay from someone in Canberra, the tub xmember I got from AlexH in Tassie. The rest I made templates and cut out from sheet. Includes both dumbirons, both outriggers and the gearbox xmember, as you know. I did revisit the gearbox xmember it now has 45mm drop and sits better against the g/box mounts. It got the better of me.
hi guys, i have 2 series 1's, 1 x 80 inch, 1 x 86 inch, both stripped down, mostly there, cost me $1000, will sell for $500, heaps of parts, 1 x engine number 22 2 litre that I believe still runs though I havent heard it. email me if you are interested micknber@tpg.com.au I live in gladstone central queensland, but be mindful that if you want them ya gotta take the lot, as work comittments have stopped me from continuing on with these projects.
Well last weekend was the first without rain for 2 weekends(fine during the week). So klonks chassis and bulkhead has now been undercoated and fish oiled. The undercoat is zinc based for rust resistance. I was carefull not to cover the chassis no. Before painting I cleaned out the numbers with an "o"ringpick, even the 2nd number on the chassis rail came up well.
The fish oil was applied by using 3 meters of the small garden irrigation tube and a 180 deg brass nozzel the same size od as the tube, this was attached to a flushgun I use for flushing A/C hoses. I found that I had to turn the flushgun upside down to add air and reduce the solid flow of oil as I think I put 1/2 a ltr into the top box section of the bulkhead in one pass, oil was running out everywhere.
Klonks progress will slow down for a while now, as I have got a building permit for Klonks new shed at home, so weekends will be spent doing that. Ive been lucky to be using a shed at the small private school were my wife works, they bought the property next door to the school. It had a house and three sheds on 2 acres and only one neighbour in the street. Its been great being able to weld and grind at 10pm, cant do that in suburbia.
Speaking of the neighbour. While working on klonk ive often wondered what sort of person would have owned a landrover back then. Maybe an elderly gent, tartan cap, neatly trimmed beard, with a terrier type dog in the passenger seat. Well the other night there was a bang bang on the shed wall, when I looked up there was an elderly man with a neatly trimmed beard wearing a tartin cap with a small white dog sitting at his feet. He was looking around the shed. ''Ooh'' he said, yer got yerself a little lan rover in ere, I knew you ad something in ere I could ere yer bangin and crashin. (Pommy accent). Well just about rolled around on the shed floor laughing. turned out he used to own a 1950 80'' back in England years ago. He had also restored a mini cooper, a Ford capri v6 and still has 2 vintage bikes he restored and still rides. Not bad for a 75 yr old. He and the previous owner of the house had built the shed, but had not used it for the purpose it was built for, Yes restoring cars. So he was pleased and was going to tell his mate who was now in a nursing home. I promised to take them for a ride when klonk is finished.
A bit of an update, have been panelbeating the front guards. Drivers side was abit of a mess, got rid of the 1/4'' of bog down the front and made rivits from ali welding rod to reattach the inner guard . There was too many poprivit holes to re spot weld it and I couldnt buy any in town. Had to shrink the outer panel due to it being streached. Quite a scary operation first time. The panel will rise about 1/2'' in a lump when heat is applied at the worst streached point, approx 2'' dia , then you have to drop the torch grab the wooden dolly for underneath and use the slapper on top to work around the lump and push it into the center and flatten it off then allow to cool. As it cools it pulls tight. Takes about 45 seconds. When finished you have to restreighten the panel.
I would rather panelbeat Ali than steel, its more moveable once you get used to it. Still have a few holes to repair.
OldBushie
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