Thread: My 1955 86" rebuild.

I've been worried and have had withdrawals because its beenso long Dennis.

As usual superb work. I'm told by a little do....i mean..birddie that you havent enjoyed the weather recently

Our tanks were low so we loved it!

Keep up the magnificent work!

Down in the depths of the shed, I dared to climb a ladder to the loft, get this box down and look into it

I was looking in particular for a Lucas L639 body + the chrome fixing ring

of which I had quite a few, so I cleaned a few of them with Brasso and selected the better one.
Prior to climbing the ladder I found my favourite 6" ruler that has been missing for almost 3 years, I did find 3 L639 bodies ( I used the ruler to scrape paint to check the ID)

but I need to be able to buy a rubber boot/body for the light as the ones I have are U/S.
While up in the loft I re-acquainted myself with the contents of these boxes

then had a sticky beak into this box as well, all new bits for the 110

also up there was a NOS MX6707 complete anyway I will keep looking for a supplier of the rubber boot/body, cheers Dennis

Hi Dinty, Seeing Diggers sheltie reminded me of my sisters one back in NZ when we were kids. He used to love going shooting. I had a rabbit sniping spot on the neighbours farm about 600mtrs from our house, if he saw me taking the 22 out of the cupboard he would beat me to that spot every time. He used to carry the rabbit legs back home that Id cut off, wouldnt eat them untill we were home. He also used to hide in the passengers footwell of the land rover while I was packing for weekend hunting trips and would emerge when I stopped at the first traffic intersection in town with a big smile on his face. Cheers Steve

[QUOTE=Dinty;2424901]Down in the depths of the shed, I dared to climb a ladder to the loft, get this box down and look into it
While up in the loft I re-acquainted myself with the contents of these boxes


A box of Land Rover "budgie smugglers" Please don't put them on Dennis!

theres got to be a camouflage joke in there too somewhere

Hi Dennis, looking great as always mate. Did you have to remove the center horn button? Mine is broken (on the 80") and I'm unsure how to remove it without inflicting more damage but do want to undertake a epoxy repair to it.....any suggestions?

cheers, matt

The steering wheel cover arrived from the UK my good wife has stitched it up for me, now it needs to be fitted, Matt I didn't dismantle this Land Rover but there is a type of clamp at the base of the steering box which acts as a clamp, the tube cannot be removed until you have removed it, hope that's of some help, cheers Dennis
ps I forgot to add that my new canvas top is on it's way from Victoria, should arrive sometime next week,,.

That's a nice wheel cover, should be really good in your hands.