Thread: Digger's next Series 1, 80" 1950.

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

so Digger,, will this be a full-on "Dinty" restoration,,

or--?

I dont have the skills for that!

Id like to see how the tray off the other comes up after a cleanup (eg paint off) if it comes up OK then Id like to keep it all bare... I dont mind that at all, but the chassis etc will need a paint, so if I bare that up (which I reckon I must!) then I'll paint it the correct colour...

If the tray, and doors etc dont clean up well then I'll have to look at painting it all.

If I do paint it all the thought would be to give it a pretty good coat but that all depends....

As I have to replace a lot of bits (doors tray tailgate poss front guards) it'll all come down to how they clean up.

So, trying to move along but slowly!

Put some oil and a touch of diesel down each pot, only one plug looked slightly rust coloured on thread but all came out nicely (old plugs too)

Yesterday, put the crank handle through and with one plug out it cranks over free and nicely, put the plug back, and enough resistance to make it reasonable... feels good

Still haven't got it starting... tried the two wires and still no response from starter. MMM maybe crank start is the go??

other than that with work and cfs etc been pretty busy...
Ohh and lost a full day getting warranty work done on the defender...or 1/2 done...for the second time... but that is for another section. Bit annoying that 4 1/2 hrs and 450k total trip and they want it there at 8...I get it there for the "2 hrs work" at 5.30 I leave after they ask if they can have it back tomorrow...

stress level lifts!!!

thank god for the series!

I got a harness from Vinwire, very, very nice.
With indicator fittings it was around $450, which I thought was expensive but is on par with others.

[QUOTE=digger;2095179]Afrer much soaking oil in, tonight removed all 4 rims, one brought studs out on 3 of the 5 nuts

All 4 are off now anyhow, most look reasonable and a sand blast and paint look like they'll see them right.

All 4 are circle stamped 4/49 (I noticed on my 52 that there is no circle just straight numbers 10/51)

Couple questions..
1) chassis number is: 06103608, this is before the supposed cut off of marking these numbers with R or L prefix.... why is it this one has neither?

06103608
Desp In: 7-11-1949
Desp Out: 8-11-1949.
Champions of Adelaide
CKD Form 6 vehicles in the shipment

Make sure you take plenty of photos of everything before you pull it apart as this is a nice early Champions CKD vehicle.

by 1950 models they started to drop the R/L as by 161/166 vehicles the LHD / RHD part was built into the number. I have seen some 1950s stamped some not.

2) On the engine mount where the number is situated it is prefixed by much smaller stamped numbers I believe read 1404 - I assume this is a factory number -I recall hearing something about it but cannot recall what.

Chassis Build Number: 1404th chassis for the 1950 chassis production year / that variant of chassis.