Thread: My 1955 86" rebuild.

Weather wise today, it has been magnificent, moving along with the wiring loom, I've managed to connect all the wires (loom from Vinwire) to their respective places, just need to make up a few bridging (for the want of a better explanation) wires to go between Ign/choke/oil pressure warning lights, and from ammeter to the red power socket

just have to excuse the grubby finger marks all over the panel, anyway as the sun gets lower in the sky, this is where I have left off

hopefully tomorrow's weather will be much of the same, cheers Dennis

Another busy day in the backyard with the 'Poodle Patrol'. They had been on high alert for something, I had no idea what they had been barking at, until this little critter emerged in the yard out of reach of the Poodle Patrol

it must have escaped from an enclosure ?? nearby, but none of the neighbours owned up, so we took it up to one of the local vets, they will rehome it, at least it didn't get eaten by our mutts LOL, by hell they are quick little critters.
I managed to make my 2 bridging wires up, I had to slip into town to buy suitable wire for the job, but as usual I always seem to have to modify electrical clips to suit the job

holding the banjo clip in a pair of pliers, using a No 30 drill I opened it up to suit the wire diameter, all connections were soldered and heat shrink applied.
Then it was time to see if I had done it properly, the White wire comes off the Ign/switch and goes around to all the warning lights, the short Red one comes off the Ammeter to the plug socket on the dash

I won't know whether the Ammeter is wired correctly until I have it all wired up, anyway it's only a matter of swapping the wires, ditto for the fuel gauge as well.
My 'Sidchrome Ignition' spanners got a small workout today, I bought these back in 1967, the plastic is a bit ordinary, as I've had it rolled up for more years than I care to remember LOL

after lunch I took a quick drive to Maitland to pick up some new gloves for my grit blaster, and while I was there I went into K.C Harris (bolt makers etc) looking for Bi-furcated rivets and 1/8" dia solid alloy rivets, they had both in stock. I need the bi-furcated rivets to fit the bonnet wear strip, and the small alloy rivets to fit a panel to the side of the seat box to I can apply a thin coat of body filler to cover where electrolysis has eaten through the side, then back into town to pick up a glass panel 610 x 300 x 4mm as a new glass panel in the grit blasting cabinet as the original has well n truly been blasted, it's that frosted that I only had a small portion to look through LOL.
At the end of play today I fitted the speedo & cable, this so I can make up the wires for Earth and panel illumination, hopefully the panel switch is OK, here is the dash minus the that switch

when it is going together for the last time, all the screw slots will correspond (ain't I a nutter LOL) anyway cheers Dennis

A little bit of progress today, I had other things to do as well. I made up the Earth bridging connections hopefully near as correct as the originals

then turned my attention to the panel light switch, it was in need of some TLC to get the verdigrease off the contacts,

re-do the Red wires that connect the instrument illumination

look at the bird nest behind the panel LOL, anyway it has been put back into place temporarily,

now need to make a battery cable, and finish off the wiring, cheers Dennis

I had been having a few issues i.e. no spark at the points (hot wired) and after thinking about it overnight I found the solution when I came home from work today.
Somewhere in it's past, somebody had replaced the points, and they had put the 2 wires in the distributor on the top of the nylon insulating block, this put power straight to earth, so I rectified that and this is what happened after small drink of fuel down the throat
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it ran just long enough to know it runs, oil pressure was up just over 40psi, no knocks rattles etc a little cough back through the carburetor, anyway I'm pleased that I was able to work it through, cheers Dennis

Well, that is what happens to you when grit blasting for hours on end , but while I was happily listening to 2NUR.FM on the radio above the grit blaster, I thought I heard an unusual noise coming from the shed, so I went to investigate.
The belt on the compressor was slipping allowing the compressor to stop momentarily with a bang, so I switched it off, and started looking at how I had to adjust the belts. Moving the unit outside the shed, armed with 2 x 17mm ring spanners, I undid the 4 bolts holding the motor to it's mount on the tank, but I couldn't budge it, great I thought, my T/A (missus) is not going to be able to help with this, so thinking cap in place and this is what I came up with

it worked a treat, and in a short time I was back at it again.
The other day I had removed the breather off the rocker cover to repaint it, but before I did I tapped it against something steel and this is the debris that came out of it

The base for the oil bath air cleaner cleaned up so well I found a rust pin hole in the base, rusting from the outside in

so the area was cleaned /tinned/soldered in no time, all items grit blasted were etch primed and given a coat of Gloss Black

other bitz

well that's been my day, I have filled the 110 with fuel ready for tomorrow's trip to Sydney, anyway cheers Dennis

We took ourselves off to the 'Expo" this morning, we had to take 'Charli' our Std Poodle as it was raining, and she associates rain with thunder, lots of people wanted to pat her, all were taken back by her 'Pink' toenails

I caught up with 'Muddy' & his mate from down Sth, 123Rover and his wife, Carzee, Mini-keg, Cone of Silence, Lokka, Dobbo, Bent Series, JDNSW, Master Chief, & MC senior, Slunnie, I nearly forgot Landy Smurf, and lot's of others who are not on the net, it was a great day lots to see n drool over, I spied this modified gunbuggy

I really liked 123Rover's Series 1, this bloke is a legend, what he has done with the original wreck is mind boggling, you really need to see it up close

from another angle

we left at around 1210hrs as I wanted to get a few hours in on my project, I put the items that I had painted yesterday together, they don't look too bad

the horn

just recently I was having an issue with 'spots' in the paint, well I worked out what was causing them. As some of you might know, I'm an absolute lunatic with precise amounts of this n that, well used syringes ( disposable types) are not suited to drawing up paint etc, REASON they are lubricated with a silicone type lubricant, this lubricant will transfer into the paint/thinners/hardener that your mixing, so I did put that to the test yesterday and had no issues, so this afternoon I wanted to test it on some DBG as well, here is a 'selfie' in Deep Bronze Green LOL

anyway that's been my day cheers Dennis

Originally Posted by Dinty

<<snip>>, I spied this modified gunbuggy
<<snip>>

Oh my god what have they done???

Do we know the numbers that were formally attached to this Gunbuggy before it was slaughtered?? (just my opinion of course... )

what a waste..... (how does it get historic rego with those mods?)

as for the Royal Review, how magnificent can a shooting buggy become?
The thread itself is full of interesting adaptations and manufacturing, and the car looks magnificent again.

Your selfie shows what a beautiful job you have done.. keep up the good work.

Originally Posted by Dinty

We took ourselves off to the 'Expo" this morning, we had to take 'Charli' our Std Poodle as it was raining, and she associates rain with thunder, lots of people wanted to pat her, all were taken back by her 'Pink' toenails

I caught up with 'Muddy' & his mate from down Sth, 123Rover and his wife, Carzee, Mini-keg, Cone of Silence, Lokka, Dobbo, Bent Series, JDNSW, Master Chief, & MC senior, Slunnie, I nearly forgot Landy Smurf, and lot's of others who are not on the net, it was a great day lots to see n drool over, I spied this modified gunbuggy

I really liked 123Rover's Series 1, this bloke is a legend, what he has done with the original wreck is mind boggling, you really need to see it up close

from another angle

we left at around 1210hrs as I wanted to get a few hours in on my project, I put the items that I had painted yesterday together, they don't look too bad

the horn

just recently I was having an issue with 'spots' in the paint, well I worked out what was causing them. As some of you might know, I'm an absolute lunatic with precise amounts of this n that, well used syringes ( disposable types) are not suited to drawing up paint etc, REASON they are lubricated with a silicone type lubricant, this lubricant will transfer into the paint/thinners/hardener that your mixing, so I did put that to the test yesterday and had no issues, so this afternoon I wanted to test it on some DBG as well, here is a 'selfie' in Deep Bronze Green LOL

anyway that's been my day cheers Dennis

I keep telling Keith he is too clever for his own good , a bit like you way too clever for your own good Makes me want to pull my Landy apart again & start over Have you got any more photo's from the Expo.