Thread: My 1955 86" rebuild.

Thank you for your time gent's, but, where I have the clearance issue is up where the sill rail bolts onto the base of the A pillar of the bulkhead.
The sill rail is being stopped by a folded over edge of the foot wells, that is the area that is causing concern, as the sill rails touch the folded edge and is unable to sit up any higher, thus causing issues further back towards the front edges of the seat box, hope that's enough info, cheers Dennis

Hi Dennis,

here goes again..

is this the spot you are having trouble with?

regards,

Matt

Hi, I can't get any pics as we are away from home until tomorrow night.
Will also try then if still required.

Erich

This morning early 0730, I decided to bite the bullet and take to the fold on the footwell with a cutting disc in one of my Dremel tools, the area in white chalk is to be removed

it was causing this problem on both sides of the seatbox

about 9<>10mm gap, anyway after a few minutes with the Dremel tool, I was able to tap the sill rail up into position

still needed a bit of fiddling yet, but it now has a very much smaller gap to fill

the screws still need pulling down tight, but it's the same on both sides

when the mizzling rain stops, I will try the one piece floor section and see how it all sits together.
Hopefully I won't have to revisit this again, and I can continue to re-assemble it all, anyway cheers Dennis

In between mizzles I managed to get the floor in for a trial fit

look at the accumulated dust LOL, I now need to find and grit blast 4 hex/head acme screws to hold the gearbox cover plate to the bulkhead, I was sure that I had done the 4 screws, anyway cheers Dennis

I thought I had covered all the floor screws etc, only to find out this morning I am way short of what I needed.
Gee I must have old timers disease, probably more likely CRAFT (Cant Remember A Flaming Thing), anyway as well as all that I had run out of Silver paint as well, so I had to paint some of the floor screws in DBG

then the search was on for 12 self tapping screws that hold the 2 cover panels (H/brake & H/brake LHD) I found them, I fitted them all to a thin piece of cardboard, grit blasted them to remove the rust n electrolysis off them, etch primed all over

the underside

now all nicely painted in DBG (both sides)

the underside

nothing worse than getting under a vehicle to see rusty/dirty screws looking at you LOL.
The floor has been moved into position and is now almost completely fitted up

it looks OK except for the Series 3 type grommet over the Hi/Lo lever, the original type had the socket for the lever towards the front of the moulding, but I suppose getting one of those, I reckon I could probably find a bucket load of rocking horse dung quicker LOL, anyway that's been most of my day, cheers Dennis

Originally Posted by Dinty

it looks OK except for the Series 3 type grommet over the Hi/Lo lever, the original type had the socket for the lever towards the front of the moulding,

If it's any help the part number for the seal for the transfer gear lever is 303821.

I agree it doesn't look good for getting the correct shaped cover.
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My mate Gordon was over this afternoon, to have a bo-peep at his former Land Rover, he stated to me 'Gawd you've done a far better job than I was going to do!, anyway I let him start it up & it wouldn't start for him, but it did for me first time, methinks he wasn't pushing the starter button down far enough, here is a clip of Gordon (aka Handbag) moving it back n forth in my backyard
[ame=http://youtu.be/Cma4vaMw_sA]Series 1first moves - YouTube[/ame]
it has been hot here today, I've been doing a mixture of tasks, fitting up the remainder of the floor screws, like this one, I know I'm missing the captive nuts, most of these screws are easily fitted but this one, and I have small fingers

anyway I overcame the issue by using my head LOL, a short piece of blue masking tape applied over the end of the spanner, drop in the nut/spring washer etc, line it up by eye screw it home

I'm still slowly rubbing back the panels on the tub, in preparation for a recoat of DBG, that's what I was doing when Gordon turned up to look it over

anyway that's been my day, cheers Dennis