Thread: My 1955 86" rebuild.

As promised images from the past 2 days, not much Land Rover content LOL other than in the background, but you have to understand, we work here as a team.
My good wife does a lot of miles getting bits from Newcastle/Maitland/Dungog etc, so when asked by her to help bird proof her chook pen to protect her little Bantams, I couldn't refuse

I had already started to make a frame to move my new compressor about, it's a 42CFM (free air) petrol powered machine

so I had to put that on hold and get stuck into helping her, and with the weather forecast for lousey weather it was full on, and it did rain overnight and this morning, this is where we were last evening (Friday)

working with power tools in wet weather isn't a lot of fun, but never the less it had to be done.
Those pesky Sparrows are clever little dicks, they can find the smallest of holes, but hopefully we have closed all the gaps, I suppose when I check in the morning it will reveal whether or not we have done it right, still needed to tension the shade cloth

and the other side with a little more tidying up

at around 1600hrs I was able to get back to my compressor frame, it took some getting up on the frame, at one stage I had all 150kgs leaning on my Left leg as it had fallen sideways,

thankfully my neighbor was home and was able to lend a hand to right the situation, my 2Ton engine crane was all but useless, it couldn't reach over the far end of the unit, anyway I still have to weld in the bottom support bars, and make up the copper pipes etc to run air lines out.
I know I have sorta hi-jacked my thread, but it is all related to Land Rovers LOL, cheers Dennis
ps maybe now when the weather clears be able to get into it again,,.

Since I disgraced myself by buggering up a rear wheel cylinder on my 109 Bloodbox, the wheel cylinders have been sleeved in Stainless Steel $66.00 each + GST, possibly down the drain LOL, I thought well you might as well try and bugger something else up.
I was expecting Ross C (Carzee & Mini-keg) around this afternoon, so rather than sit on my rear I started to clean up the seat box, after about 30 minutes with the orbital sander I had removed quite a bit of the crud/paint mix

turning the frame upside down I started removing 50 + years of crud etc

still a bit to go, but the rain arrived and so did my visitors, Ross C was unwell ? 24 hr Virus, anyway that's been my day cheers Dennis

At least you have got the stronger seat base my 55 is only single skin at the front bottom and has cracks everywhere. Don't give up you are going better than me!

The day started out very cool this morning 2c, anyway I had the washing on the line @ 0730hrs woke the good wife who was going to a show at the casino in Sydney, when she left at around 0845, I set up an area on the driveway and set about grit blasting the underside of the seatbox

whilst I was in the process of grit blasting the weather changed quickly and looked very threatening.
I hurried to get the washing off the clothes line, then the item under cover, sweep up the grit so I could use it again, just managed to do that as the wispy rain almost sleet came down, so that has put paid to the rest of the days works programme, anyway there is always tomorrow, cheers Dennis
ps this seatbox had an awful lot of green paint on the underside, way too much for overspray, anyway it will be painted 'DBG',,.

Good work as usual Dennis.

It was 12 degrees here this morning at around 7, which is most unusual. didn't get much above that all day though and we had a storm and sleety rain at around 2 which has now passed.

Not much a newly retired bloke can do when it's like that

I was looking at one of those compressors recently myself. I'll be interested in how it goes over time. Plenty of air delivery it seems.

Originally Posted by Dinty

------ I set up an area on the driveway and set about grit blasting the underside of the seatbox
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Hi Dennis

Can I trouble you for some measurements ?

All of my Series one seat boxes have lost that bar, the one that goes between the front to back of the seatbox, underneath of the drivers seat and the middle seat.

I need to fold up a couple of replacements.
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Here are the dimensions for that item, a quick hand drawn job

all materials are approx. 1.6mm or near enough, I reckon you could shape the material over a length of star picket post, by making your first bend and clamping it down, then dolly it along it's length, anyhow here are some additional images to help you, the screws are not staying just a temporary fix as the spot welds had let go, but for the time being they help keep it all stiff, end shown faces bulkhead (or front of the vehicle)

this image is rear facing shown from the top

end view of the extruded section

mate I hope that has been some help to you, cheers Dennis

Thanks Dennis

That info with the extra photo's will do nicely.
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