Thread: LANDY'S LAST RESTORATION BY ME

Many thanks.
Replacements for your current non-cancelling units are quite inexpensive and may yield the parts you need to fully restore your old self cancelling unit.
Universal Turn Signal Switch - Chrome Steel Housing, Vintage, Car, Truck | eBay

best of luck
Jeff

Originally Posted by jedwards

Many thanks.
Replacements for your current non-cancelling units are quite inexpensive and may yield the parts you need to fully restore your old self cancelling unit.
Universal Turn Signal Switch - Chrome Steel Housing, Vintage, Car, Truck | eBay

best of luck
Jeff

I tried that the lens will not screw onto the stork , the out side dia of the lens is the same size as the ou size dia of the thread. . I could have fitted a new wire through the stork no trouble . I will hang onto the old switch at the moment something may turn up. I am just running out of time I want to have Landy back on the road by mid September so I can drive her to All British Day. I havn,t missed a All British Day in 30 years & this year Landy is the only British vehicle I have un like previous years when I had two.

I did the final top coat on the bonnet & wind screen vent a week ago, or so I thought. Some bugs decided to skate around on the wet paint so back to square one & rub back & re prime. I have just finished giving them a sand ready for top coat when the weather is rite.IMAG1359.jpg They are sitting in what sun we are having at the moment drying after i washed them.
I have also prepared the seat box lids , panel under center seat & floor plates.IMAG1356.jpgIMAG1357.jpg

I am also getting the tail gate ready for painting , I hope to have it ready for when I top coat the other bitsIMAG1357.jpgIMAG1358.jpg There are a lot of nicks out of the tail gate on the inside so am slowly building them up with spray putty, on the out side there is a small crease in one side & on the other there were two holes were the number plate had been attached . I have filled them with Devcon Aluminum Filler & am hopping to work out some way to attach the plate were it should be mounted with out having to pay $2500 for plates that will fit under thew tail light.
I have thought of using the plates off my BMW but unfortunately they are painted Blue I was always taught Blue & Green should never be seen. May have to go to Qld Transport & see what they have, or get a cost to change the color of the plates.

I still have not found were i put the R/H sill channel so decided to make a new one out of a alum RHS pool fence post IMAG1352.jpg . I stuck some tape on two sides & drew a line on opposite sides for the legs of the channel. Then I clamped the post to the saw horse & using my circular saw cut along the two lines . Then cut the channel to length. Then using a flat smooth file removed the burs from the cuts .
This post had been powder coated so I have sanded the coating with some coarse wet & dry . I am just waiting for it to dry now then I will prime it so I can top coat it with the other bits .IMAG1354.jpgIMAG1355.jpg
Just got to pope the paint will take to the powder coating & stay on.

Ideal conditions for painting today.IMAG1364.jpgIMAG1365.jpgIMAG1366.jpg

And a few more bitsIMAG1367.jpgIMAG1368.jpg

I spent most of today wasting & cleaning my wife's I30 & my BMW ( they have been getting neglected lately) before starting on Landy.
I washed the tub & tail gate down with truck to get all the dust out of them ready for priming later in the week ( if it doesn't rain)IMAG1377.jpg

then I run a die over around 100 1/4" BSF bolts & washed them in wax & grease remover . I then set 20 of them up in some holes in cardboard so I could etch prime , then prime . Once the they had dried I moxed up a little silver paint with hardener & painted the heads. These bolts will be used on the bonnet fittings. IMAG1373.jpg

I also painted the spring latches for the bonnet with the same paint.IMAG1374.jpg

That is it for a couple of days , tomorrow I am helping my brother get the body of his Mk2 Jaguar down out of the car port rafters were it has lived for the last 15 years & bolting the suspension so we can move it to our workshop for the rebuild.