Thread: My 1955 86" rebuild.

Good work Dinty.

Read your thread with great interest.

I found myself two shorties around 1952 vintage I think. Will have to find ways to determine their ages. Hoping to build one goer out of the two.
Will probably need to tap into your expertise as I progress through the refurbishment
No doubt I will encounter some curly issues as I progress.
Regards

Graham

Hi Dennis,
what is the name of the green paint on this project?


Cheers, Mick

All back together now except for the front shock absorbers and drag links (paint still not dry), brake drums fit on/off with ease, my problem just a few daze ago was that the brake shoes were OVERSIZE +++++, why ? who knows!!

the timber is there to support a sheet of plywood, this stops water pooling on the tarps, and helps it run off over the rear of the tub, well that's the game plan LOL.
I have re-fitted the Zenith carb to my 109 Workshop vehicle, but I'm damned if I can get it to run, I'll have another go tomorrow sometime, anyway cheers Dennis
ps now to do our lawn & my neighbours then get back into the shed,,.

Hi Dennis,

You may have already considered this, but there maybe others who don't know about the need to seat brake drums after work / or painting on the hubs.

To initially seat the drums, lubricate the inside of the hole in the drum with a slight amount of anti-seize then place drum on the hub, making sure the brake drum fixing screws are left out of the drum to be seated, using a spacer ( a old brake drum placed on back to front is okay ) then tighten the wheel nuts up fully while using that most important tool ( a hammer ) and a drift to jar the drum seat in place.

Just assembling the drum, wheel and with the screws in place before making sure the drums are seated, can result in a extreme case, the passenger side wheel nuts ( Vehicle LHS ) winding undone and the wheel coming completely off.
The other problem is, as the screws are left proud with the drum moving further in on the the hub, they then dent the inside of the mounting face of the rim and this is a common occurrence on any vehicle with those types of brake drum fixings, not only Land Rovers.

After fitting the wheels take your vehicle for a couple of short runs, stop then tighten the wheel nuts, do this a couple of times until you are satisfied they don't tighten up any more after a couple of tries, it's then time then to take the wheels off to install the brake drum screws.

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This morning with a little help from my T/A (wife) we lifted the bonnet and I removed the RHS guard

I have been a tad un-motivated over the past week, anyway I wanted to re-fit the front shock absorbers, so out with my special tool

it certainly makes getting the split pin through the hole a damn sight easier, especially when your are old and have arthritis etc, here is another view

I have been fitting the wiring loom through the rad/supp panel, getting the grommets into those 3/4" dia holes was a lot of fun (not) then trying to work out which wires go where in the junction box, it was very warm/hot outside so I knocked off @ 1500hrs, anyway that's been my day cheers Dennis

With the 25th April looming large on the horizon, I had to put Op Rubic's Cube into play, in other words playing Chess with who sits where etc. The Series 1 had to be moved and placed out of the way of any vehicle movements that are going to occur over the next week or 2, so it was press ahead and do the job.
The S1 was started and driven out onto the street and turned around (after I had moved my 110 and wife's car) and placed where the wife's car usually sits, this allows me to get the other vehicles out of the small back yard, here is the S1 and 'Chloe' a S2A 88"GS after part of the move

the S1 now went under the carport ext where the S2A GS had been, I took the S2A for a road test, everything was fine no issues other than battery a little flat requiring a jump start and later a battery recharge, with Op Rubic's Cube completed and now only having ex-military Land Rovers in a position that will make it very easy to manage over the next few weeks.
After lunch I still had the issue with the S2A 109 Workshop L/R, I have ordered a new carburetor it's coming from Cyprus (gawd knows when) so I had borrowed a Zenith with a known history of being A1, but it would not allow the engine to idle, it just died on idle, so I took it off and stripped it down.
The first thing I noticed was the ball under the accelerator pump was stuck, so a full strip down clean out n blow out with comp/air was the order of the afternoon, after putting it all back together the petrol pump worked, next I removed the plugs as I had heard it with a slight miss, all plugs were Black +++, so I grit blasted them filed n gapped them @ 30thou, a compression test showed all 4 cylinders had 136 psi, so I was pleased that I didn't have to look deeper into the engine.
Next up I had suspected the Condenser might have been the cause for the slight miss, so I got a new one out the shed undid the small screw holding it in the dizzie, only to drop it down into the gutz of the dizzie shock horror but then I remembered my very small magnet, it retrieved the bloody wayward screw, new Condenser in place, turn on ignition and away it went, I had the idle screw turned up a tad as previously it would die before I could get out of cab to look at what was/was not happening in the engine bay
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anyway alls well that ended well, I screwed back the idle screw and it ran for approx. 25 minutes before I switched off the ignition, I hope to move 4 Land Rovers late this coming week so I can take it for a test drive, anyway that's been my day, cheers Dennis

Its looking fantastic, well done

Well I thought I would have no time for this little vehicle until after the 25th of this month, well I was wrong, so after lunch today I rolled it out of storage and proceeded to fit the LHS guard, it is now on to stay, after that I fitted the last of the solid rivets ( 8 in all) to the gal/strip on the top of the left side door, fitted hinges/adjusted them so the door would open n close etc

it's starting to look like a Series 1 now, anyway that's been part of my day, cheers Dennis