Thread: My 1955 86" rebuild.

Hey Dennis,

withdrawal symptoms kicking in!

regards
Scott

Originally Posted by Dinty

I did do the service on the compressor and it yielded about 4.2lts of water ----- After draining the tank, I fired up the compressor and let it run with the bung open, in an effort to dry it out, -----

I leave the bung on my compressor open all the time just a smidgen and it allows moisture to blow out while it's working.

Rotten luck about those spots though.
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I did a day trip up into the Nth of the state last Thursday, I was gone 13.5 hours, 10 hrs behind the wheel & 3 .5 on the ground, and purchased some items that I needed, but I have 3 different jobs on the go ATM, and with working 2 jobs etc I'm finding it difficult to concentrate on one totally, without letting any of the other jobs slip and cause me any issues, LOL as soon as is possible I will be back into the Series 1 with gusto cheers Dennis
ps here are some of the items that I purchased

and this lovely piece of kit

and a few smaller items

the galvanizers will be getting a visit in a few months, just have to budget/spread my pocket money out without going overboard LOL,,.

You just need a water pump to run off that PTO. Don't get one tat is too heavy , when I made mine up years ago I couls lift it into the back of Landy myself but not now. I found my self a 1950 wooden box trailer & restored it & load the pump & safty fencing on to it.

Weather wise today 'perfect' anyone would think we lived in Qld!! LOL, a balmy 24c, usually around 12-14c anyway I made good use of the time.
This morning I applied black paint to the cover off the horn

I also applied the same colour to the brake backing plates for my Bloodbox and the oil filter canister for the engine that has been rebuilt to go in my other 109

while twiddling my thumbs ha ha, I thought that if I could mount the rear PTO on the chassis maybe I could get it apart easier, as I was getting no-where fast.
I found a short length of 3/8"W threaded rod and nuts/washers to suit in the shed, cut to length, mount the unit on the chassis

all I could do was wriggle it back n forth in a clockwise etc movement, very frustrating, another look at the service manual to make sure that I wasn't damaging it in any way, after 30 minutes I have worked this gap about 3mm

I was very mindfull of all the things behind me, that if it let go suddenly I would end up with serious injury to my back etc.
Looking up and hanging there are 2 winches, a 2T cont/chain block & a 1 1/2T come along winch, so down with the come along, a short length of chain wrapped around the right angle drive for the pulley, secure winch to brush bar on 'Bloodbox', apply weight

and use dead blow hammer and tyre lever, wriggle like crazy and in no time it started to move off the 6 lug spline, a quick spray with some WD40 let it soak and sure enough it came apart

The grease that had once been there to lubricate the spline had gone hard, add to that a little H2O and you can guess the rest

anyway I'm just glad it came to pieces without damaging any part of it, anyway that's been part of my day, cheers Dennis
ps this is what I had to resort to getting the drive flange off

thankfully I had that puller in the shed, the splined shaft will clean up

This is my PTO in action running a water pump & my 1950 wooden box trailer behind my 1950 Landy

I'm still doing an odd assortment of tasks ATM, still stripping small items from the PTO unit, the input flange was the first task, remove the circlip undo the nuts and remove frozen bolts, put them to one side in sealed plastic bag

both the circlip and the flange have now been grit blasted.
The next job was to try and remove the drive flange from the drum, I couldn't move the nuts, so out with the rattle gun, it did manage to move (loosen) one of the nuts, I have to be careful here as these are Csk screws most likely in a BSF thread, now we all know I'm not going to get any at the corner milk bar LOL.
So out with the MAP gas torch, heat them up, and spray/drop penetrene on them, shame way back then that some-one didn't put some type of never seize on them.

this is a 2 person job, I got the hard task, trying to hold a large blade screwdriver in the slot, while using an adjustable spanner on the square shaft, very difficult even with the rattle gun down on a lower power setting, I might have to think of a way to secure the drum, as it's a tad hard to hold.
While the penetrene is doing it's work, I had a quick look at the bonnet that I got about a week ago, it now has all the hardware removed from it

I also checked it over for signs/symptoms of the dreaded Electrolysis, and can happily say that it does not have any, so move an airline over, fill handgun with grit medium, and try it out on the steel frame

I think tomorrow if the weather stays good, I should give this part of the job a good nudge along, also took the chance to try it out on rivets on the outer surface of the bonnet

anyway that's been part of my day, cheers Dennis

Well, it rained overnight ? where did that come from? LOL. The weather did fine up around mid morning so I went ahead and grit blasted what I wanted to do, starting with the rivet heads

after completing that side I went for the underside and the frame

then with the help of my Metabo orbital sander, I cleaned the remaining paint n crud off the topside of the bonnet

after that my lower back was complaining, so that was the end of the works program for the day.
Later in the afternoon, I went with my mate Kevin to look at this 'Wolseley' engine etc

which he did buy, I also had a bo-peep at this wreck, but no intent to buy

anyway that's been my day, cheers Dennis