Thread: My 1955 86" rebuild.

Continuing on from this afternoons foray with paint, I still had too much to waste, so I put it to good use.
I rummaged through the box of bits looking for items that belong to the bulkhead and come up with these, here they are after grit blast n etch primer applied

painting small items like this has it's drawbacks, you end up with green fingers etc

everyone I work with say's gee you have small hands always getting picked on LOL, anyway here they are covered in DBG

still having just a small amount of paint left, I quickly grit blasted the cover for the steering shaft, etch primed and coated the inside with DBG

I will paint the other side when I'm ready to paint the other side of the bulkhead.
Here are the other items that I had painted earlier but had no images, here is part of the floor assembly

and the center seat cover panel

the gun took some cleaning what with overspray and my green left hand + the gravity feed gun which took the remainder of the paint, anyway all clean now and waiting for the next job, cheers Dennis
ps before I apply the next coat of DBG, I will have a bigger list of things to paint, all etch primed and waiting,, weather not looking great ATM

Wish you lived a bit closer I could do with a good man on a spray gun.
Mike

when and if you finish the rebuild
you could start a garden show with that green thumb
cheers
Ian

My day is over ATM, as it looks a lot like a storm outside, so I packed up etc.
I started the day by slipping down to the local hardware store and bought a pack of 25 alloy rivets to be used as sacrificial rivets to hold the internal frame insitu for when I'm ready to set the solid rivets, and to be honest I need the space, anyway the bonnet

that has reduced the parts sitting around by a miniscule amount LOL.
Very soon after I pressed the good wife into helping me set the bulkhead so I could work on other issues

after setting it up, I started to sand down some area's that had been attacked by rust in the past, the bulkhead has been grit blasted by x 2, but my mate (the previous owner) did not understand what surface preparation meant, so it has had to be cleaned off once again,

and a light coat of 'Hot Shot' blade putty applied to the area's, here is part of the bulkhead with some applied

ATM the full face of the bulkhead has had a coat of 'Hot Shot' applied and is being allowed to dry overnight.
This little tool has allowed me to get into most places within the parcel tray's

it certainly has saved me many hours of sanding, it's a ripper

and cheap as chips.
Now a question, here is an image of a sequence of rivets 12 in all in groups of 2, down either side of the tub wheel box

what I need to know are they genuine (aka as fitted from factory????) they seem to holding the angle support brackets under the wheel box, and are these small screws a std fitting on the floor of the tub????

me myself personally do not think they would have been fitted, as they would have had a flat floor, any help appreciatted, cheers Dennis
ps back in.. I will finish this little vehicle unless I die early from some issue, here is a clip that represents the last 14 years of my life, all vehicles (+2 trailers) have been restored by me, as well as doing ongoing maintnance on them and our 110 Isuzu that we have owned for 22 years, the link Anzac Day 2012 Cessnock
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eet7BeqsoY]Anzac Day 2012 - YouTube[/ame]
cheers,,pps I forgot to add the only green thumb here is my wife,,.

Hi
just some thing you may not know
L/R did not paint were it was not need
under bonnets, mud guards etc only got over spray by mistake
don't paint if it is not need, the factory was still winding down from the War
that the one some of us can still remember
cheers
Ian

Originally Posted by back_in

Hi
just some thing you may not know
L/R did not paint were it was not need
under bonnets, mud guards etc only got over spray by mistake
don't paint if it is not need, the factory was still winding down from the War
that the one some of us can still remember
cheers Ian

Hi Ian

You are quite correct in what you say about the paint, it wasn't applied by the factory in those spots you mentioned, but as time goes on there is now a need to fully protect those exposed areas to preserve them.

I am not a 'Baby Boomer' as my Dad was too young to get to the war, but my wife who is a couple of years younger than me, does call herself a 'Baby Boomer' as her Dad fought in Gona, Northern Province, Papua New Guinea.

A sad time for the world, "Lest we forget".

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Hi Arther
I spend a lot of time remembering those that have gone before in days of old.
I have spent 19 years in the Green Machine.
Every day I go through some form of pain from what I have put the body though.
I get a little short with them that sit on their BUMS and want the world to do every thing for them.
When the likes of us aged gentlemen have gone to a better place, we will not be pestered by Clowns asking questions, who do not want to accept the answers.
God help this country when the Sh.t hits the fan and we have to have to rely the younger generation rise up and save us.
They will not want to get out of bed until the iphone is fully charged and Facebook and Twitter are back on the air.
A passing thought, how many reading this really know what to day is and what it means for this our country, since Australia sent it's first man and woman away to war late in the 19th century over 102,000 have died for this country, for us, for our future children, for the freedom we now enjoy.
Spend a minute to remember.
Ian

Please, I'm asking politely here, not to hijack the thread with things "off topic", if you want to banter on about something please start another thread somewhere else, thank you. yeah I know I'm a grumpy old sod.
In my post No 134 I stated that I knew that Land Rovers were not painted under neath etc, but I also stated that I wanted this vehicle to outlast me, and not rot away with electrolysis/rust etc, but I'm doing this the way I want to do it
This afternoon I have counted the floor screws and the screws that hold the middle seat box panel insitu, they have all been etch primed, washers done both sides, with the undersides painted flat black

I even etch prime the screws on the underside as well

eventually they will be painted in Deep Bronze Green (both sides)
I had also applied a light coat of 'hot shot' across the Rad/supp panel, it is yet to be lightly sanded, hopefully if the weather clears, I might get a chance to spray over the weekend, anyway cheers Dennis