Thread: My 1955 86" rebuild.

I'm looking a lot like that frog again, but alas I have run out of 6" sanding discs @ 100 grit , but I would bet the neighbours are pleased, well I didn't start until 21 minutes past 0800hrs, legal noise time in NSW is 0800 on a Sunday, anyway this was early into the job, with just a small patch left near the front door opening

I mentioned that I had run out of 100 grit discs, and just to show the difference I used 7 discs @ 180 grit just to almost complete the LHS, after using all those discs I decided to use paint stripper which removed most of the paint, I have washed it down, waiting for it to dry, then I will sand the remainder of the paint off, next job will be the wheel/seat boxs, anyway thats been most of my day, cheers Dennis

I was looking for something else in the box of bits that I have for this vehicle, when I came across 2 x 6" lengths of angle iron , these needed to be fitted to the transome panel, they are the steel corner angle stiffening plates, so back out with some gear and work out how n why

some gal/cappings needed and small screws etc, all clamped up ready to drill hole for blind rivets and some countersunk

and just when you don't need anything extra to do "Murphy's Law" kicks in, a rivet nail snapped off half way along the shaft, so out with one of my Dremel tools with a thin cutting disc, soon made short work out it LOL

2 x countersunk rivets set, check that the gal/strip clears them

a light spray with etch primer, job finished on the RHS

onto the LHS, all finished now , cheers Dennis

I struggled to do anything this afternoon, after another hectic day at work , anyway I mixed up a small amount of etch primer and sprayed the inside of the LHS inner guard

I was going to spray the outside, but after looking closely, the outside needs to be rubbed down all over, it has a light coating (weathering effect) that gets on un-coated aluminium, so needless to say it ain't etched as yet, clean gun, set BBQ ready have tea>>> that's the arvo over, LOL cheers Dennis

After etch priming the LHS inner guard yesterday, I had a look at the outside of the same guard this afternoon, after a quick run (with the mower) over the lawn.
Looking very closely at all the spot welds, and there are plenty of them, I started trying to get the paint out of them, I soon realised it was going to be a time consuming job, so out with an air line, hand held grit blasting tool from s****cheap (that I have had for quite some time and works a treat as well!!), run the compressor up and within 3 minutes they were clean enough for me, here are some of them

later a quick rub with some 600 wet n dry should remove the scuff marks, anyway that's something else done, cheers Dennis

We have had the grand kids here again today, ******* school holidaze , anyway it was too hot for them outside, so looking for a simple easy job to perform, I decided to clean up grit blast etc some 2BA screws/nuts washers etc for some of the smaller fittings that are peculiar to the seatbox.
I remembered that my mate Kevin had given me the 2 tailgate locking pins n chains with the staples etc, they looked very ordinary especially the 2BA nut

another 2BA nut was sourced (as you can see) all were run through tap/die to clean threads, grit blasted etch primed etc.
Most of the heads were to be painted Silver

and some of the 2BA nuts washers etc had to be Deep Bronze Green,

so I went with the Silver first, I mixed a very small amount of paint (40mls) with thinners & hardener, here are the Silver items hanging on the line to dry

once finished with the Silver, a quick clean of the gun and mix up an even smaller amount of DBG and apply it

anyway that's been part of my day, cheers Dennis
ps I also grit blasted n etch primed the windscreen hinge bolts/washers etc,,.

Not much done today, as we had the gand kids down at the 'Tree Top adventure park' Minmi NSW, they had a great 4 hours there, it was warm @ 37c in the shade, we didn't get home until almost 1500hrs.
So rather than waste the rest of the day, I set about finding another 6 round head slot screw 2BA x 1/2" to secure the bonnet locking clamp onto the bonnet, 6 screws found, run over with tap n die, grit blast, etch prime. I mixed up a small amount of DBG to paint the 2BA nuts

and the panel that the fuel pump and regulator etc are mounted on

also I wanted to paint some DBG in the corners of the tub behind the seat R & L side before a stiffening panel is riveted into place, that done just a little paint left over, so I sprayed it on the underside of the Lhs guard,

at least now with that done it will reduce my chances of getting a run in that area when I spray it all, it all should dry quickly as it's quite warm outside, I know it was 43c in the shed, well it is summer, cheers Dennis

Hi Dennis

I am thinking about using a spot welder in the same places that land rover did, when I get a spare moment I'll start a thread in tools about making one and building my own plasma cutter.

All the beer-st for Christmas and have a wild New Year!

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Another very warm one, but if I don't do something to it everyday no-one will, anyway today I grit blasted the other headlight bucket, along with the frame that holds the h/brake boot + brake n clutch pedals.
A quick coat of etch primer on all of them and while it was drying (all of about 5 minutes) I was busily using a sanding pad on the dash getting the inside ready for painting possibly tomorrow or Monday.
Here are the items that had been painted gloss black, headlight buckets

brake n clutch pedals

the dash almost ready for a light coat of etch primer

well that's just about my days play finished, going out for tea with the good wife, christmas tea, as she will be in Rockhampton for 8 days from Monday morning, so I'm batching and living rough LOL , but I do have to look after the 'Poodle Patrol', bantams, fish, cat, bonsai plants etc etc etc, anyway cheers Dennis