Thread: A well used 80''called Klonk

Originally Posted by Bundalene

I have been going through posts at night and came across this. Did you know that these bushes are available off the shelf from bearing companies for a few dollars, with the correct OD, saves machining one dimension,

Erich

Yes Eric that is what I used, 20 or 30 thou is not a normal amount of clearance in a bush,I thought the old bushes were worn out, but maybe they weren't.


Cheers Steve

Well finally after 2 weeks of drizzelly rain, the weather was good enough to paint on Sunday.

So got set up and started on the small pieces first to get in practice before doing the tub.

Its a relief to have that done. It took hours to repair the cracks and straighten it.

Its good to walk into the shed and smell the new paint.


Cheers Steve

Awesome Steve.
I bet you are itching to put him back together again.
ENJOY
Andrew

Hey Steve.
You didnt have Klonk ready in time,you could have ran Charles and Cammila around town
Andrew

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

Hey Steve.
You didnt have Klonk ready in time,you could have ran Charles and Cammila around town
Andrew

Thanks Andy,

They didnt give me much notice, so had to knock them back.

Harvest time is here so have been busy doing air/cons at the weekends, but have been getting limited time on klonk.

Had to sort out another rework. I found the steering linkage was hitting the L/H front spring on full steering lock, found that the front springs were not from an 80'' but from an 86'' or 88'' and the later vehicles have the leaf clamps in a different position than an 80'', so had to remove the spring and dismantle it and refit the clamp to the next leaf up the pack to move it forward.

Brakes have been sorted. Oversize shoes with nice soft linings, supplied by our local brake shop have been fitted and the system bled. I had trouble getting a good pedal so had to adjust the screws in the backplate to get the shoes square on the drums and tighten a couple of leaking brake pipe fittings and it all came up good.

Have been playing with indicator lights. I didnt want to cut holes in the panels so decided to mount lights on brackets but had trouble finding surface mount lights. Found some LEDs on ebay but when they arrived found them to be amber reflectors with LEDs and they didnt look right. So bought some defender indicator lens and managed to fit the LEDs into them, so am happy with the look now.

Gearbox now fitted with driveshafts etc connected, and am working on the rear wiring. Im not happy to earth the lights through the body work so Ive run a separate earth wire for them through to the gearbox earth connection as no earth connections were in the wiring harness. Also going to do the same for the head lights.

Cheers for now Steve

Klonks looking a million bucks Steve.
Well done.
I doubt we will be down over Xmas/New Year,left booking too late.A few people Ive spoken too say bookings are way up.Perhaps terrorists and volcanic ash are to blame
Andrew

Beauty time off, so time for land rovers.

The wiring has been finished and the earths run up to the gearbox earth strap and the headlights have been earthed to the battery earth wire where it connects to the chassis. The radiator has been bolted to the front panel so it is complete now.

Today I finished the struts under the rear tub, they were all bent and broken. bunnings had the correct size L shaped aluminium so they were cut to length, the broken strengthening brackets around the spare wheel holder were trimmed up and new parts glued and poprivited in and a coat of jam to hide the sikaflex glue.

The last photo is a presant my wife bought me. It should really make klonk fly. It is fun to fly though. My first electric foamy.The hand to eye co-ordenation isnt what it used to be.