Thread: My 1955 86" rebuild.

Hi Dennis,

Missed your posts over the last few days, wondered where you had gotten to

Regards,
Matt

This morning I had to attend a car club run, so many things to attend , and with 2 jobs both being casual, well trying to balance it all and get some time in on the Land Rovers.
The morning was quite interesting as we visited a chap who collects and restores older farm machinery, he had 40 odd tractors, and some ?? maybe beyond it, here are a few images




and these old spanners

well I didn't get home until almost 1400hrs, a quick bite to eat and I sat down with the wiring loom and the Vinwire list, I did manage to complete an ignition circuit and add a few wires here n there

and in this lot I have still to sort out what is what n where it goes

anyway that's been my day, cheers Dennis
ps at least I don't have to go to work tomorrow or for the next 2 weeks,,

That means we will see a post every day for the next two weeks

Strewth!! What have I got myself into now, well I guess I won't have any excuses LOL cheers Dennis

I took all my Landrover parts to the Qld Militery swap yesterday & thought you may like to see these photo's. I went by my self so didn't get around to see all the Landrovers ( didn't want to leave the parts unattended) so took these photo's from where i had my parts .

Well the day started out fine, weather wise but it soon went South, so did a few other things .
I had ideas of fitting some sealed rivets (pop variety) so I fired up the compressor only to see the exhaust/muffler flopping around like something in the surf, switch off engine, touch the muffler with a rag, it's loose, so pull out compressor to get a good look and to check what size spanner I will need, only to find that the stud is missing, it has snapped off

I can't put down here what I said to self at the time, but I'm sure you get the idea , so I guess now I will have to go to Maitland tomorrow and purchase probably 4 different sizes in Cobalt drills up to approx. 6.5mm, the stud size is 8mm x 1.25, I do have a set of easy-outs, hopefully I wont break anything.
I will need to remove the belt guard so I can get a good straight line onto the snapped stud, it is approx. 2.5<>3mm below the alloy surface. I know that there will be nothing like an anti-seize etc on the threaded section of the stud, I don't think I will try to tap it anti-clockwise with a center punch, knowing my luck I would jam it up in the threads and make a bad situation worse, so I guess I'm saying that I won't be doing much on the Series 1 until I have fixed it , cheers Dennis
ps why does this always seem to happen, when you least expect it,,.

Originally Posted by Dinty

------ so I guess now I will have to go to Maitland tomorrow and purchase probably 4 different sizes in Cobalt drills up to approx. 6.5mm, the stud size is 8mm x 1.25, I do have a set of easy-outs, hopefully I wont break anything. ------

You could get some left handed drill bits, try here;

left hand drill bit | eBay
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Is that like a left handed screw driver?