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Half way downAttachment 128647 front X member & Diff bolted back in place Attachment 128648 Then loaded Attachment 128650 on to trailer for trip to workshop loading Attachment 128649
My back feels like I have been working under the bonnet of a Land Rover all day[bigsad]
Not much happened today, daughter turned up at 7 am with sick grand son to look after. Grrrrrrrrrr . Did get a chance to bolt some of the fittings back onto the bonnet until I ran out of !/4" BSF nuts.
I do have a question but. What holds the spare wheel galv dish on the bonnet is it rivets or metal threads with nuts? I have looked in my parts book & workshop manual but don't seam to be able to find it.[bighmmm]Attachment 128688
Sorry about the poor quality photo with with sunlight & shadows , this time of after noon not good for phone camera.
I think it depends on who fitted the spare tyre carrier. They were always optional equipment, and would have been probably rivetted if fitted by Rover, but almost certainly screws, nuts and spring washers if dealer fitted. Later ones would have been pop rivetted, but pop rivets were not commonly available until about the mid 1950s or later.
Found a bit of time to prime Tub & Tailgate.[smilebigeye] Attachment 128722Attachment 128723 Will not be able to do any more work until end of next week.:thumbsdown:
Been away on short holiday the last week so nothing done last week. Before I went I primed the tub & tailgate ready for top coat. First thing this morning I gave them a lite sand & a wipe over wit grease & wax remover.
Then out with the spray gun & mixed up some Deep Bronze Green & gave them the 1st light coat . The paint I am using can be re coatedAttachment 129167 in 1/2 hr so a second & 3rd coat were applied before mixing a 50/50 mix for the final coat.Attachment 129168 After lunch the paint was dry enough to start fitting the Galv capping.Attachment 129169
I have now started fitting the reverts , I made up a tool from a drawing that Dennis (Dinty) sent me & find it works extremely well. Attachment 129170 Attachment 129171
While we were up the coast last week I came across a shop who had these paintings for saleAttachment 129172Attachment 129173 They booth have S1 Land Rovers in them along with other classic cars. I was tempted to buy them until i was the price :o & my wife said they were too expensive to put on the wall of the garage.[bigsad]
Between coats this morning I went to 2 different bolt co's looking for 5/16" X 1" & 1/4" X 3/4" BSF bolts & nuts . The 1st had 30 - !/4" bolts & nuts & 50 - 5/16" X 1" bolts but no nuts , . The 2nd had the 50 - 5/16"nuts but only 2 - 1/4" x 1 1/2" but no nuts , so i still need to order another 70 - 1/4" x 3/4" bolts & nuts . What I have should keep me out of trouble .
I am off to the garage to etch prime & prime the heads of them now so I can put some color on them tomorrow.
Bit more progress today. Got the lad over the road to help me lift the tub back on.Attachment 129200 I then bolted the new D Lamps I bought a couple of weeks ago on.Attachment 129201 Then opened them up so I could connect the wires & then it was test timeAttachment 129202Attachment 129203 Two tail / stop lights working.:arms: The next job was to refit the seat box & gear box cover.Attachment 129204Attachment 129205 I had to remove the heater so as to get the gear box cover back in place.
I have not tightened any of the bolts as yet so I can move things around & get every thing to line up.
I have put the tail gate in place held on with the latch wedges & no hinges as yet , I need to paint some with silver paint mixed with hardener before bolting the hinges in place.Attachment 129206
Not a lot of LR work done today. Wife had two specialists appointments today , the first with the eye specialist & after having drops wasn't allowed to drive , so that meant I had to drive her around . 1st to Spotlite, Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr , then David Jones filling in time until her next appointment . Got home around 3.30pm.
Just enough time to do a couple of small jobs before it started getting cold & dark. 1st was to fit the support chains & latch wedges on the tailgate Attachment 129283 the 2nd job was to fit the R/H sill channel I made a couple of weeks ago . Guess what when i went to fit it it was way too long , I had made it mirror image of the L/H side but the R/H one only gorse from the bulkhead to the front of the fuel tank were the L/H one goes back to the front of the tub.:wallbash: so into the parts boxes to find the sill & there it was in the second box i looked in.[bigsmile1] I hadn't bothered looking in the boxes as I was looking for some thing over a meter long not around 400mm long.[bighmmm]Attachment 129284 The correct sill in the for ground & the one I made behind it. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I will need to paint it tomorrow so I can start fitting the floor.
Wife has Bitch & Stitch at our place tomorrow so I should be able to get a full days work done, I HOPE
All has not gone to plan today. My wife kept asking me to do things ( clean the kitchen windows & the glass doors , photo copy things & print some photo's) because the ladies were coming so that made for a late start.
I started by painting the R H sill channel , then started tightening all the bolts I had left loose on the seat box & L/H floor so I could centralize them. I also fitted the new holding straps to hold up the seat box lids .
When I was out with my wife yesterday I had bought some 1/4" & 5/16 " flat & spring washers from Bunnings THAT WAS A MISTAKE , went to use them today the 1/4" spring washers would not fit the shaft of the bolts & the 1/4" flat washers I could use on the 5/16" bolts. Bunnings Grrrrrrrrrrrrr All the packets are marked wrong. :thumbsdown: I wish Masters were still open they were only 5 min down the road & they also had a good stock of BSF bolts as well. , our closest Bunnings is 3/4 hr drive in good traffic . So off to Repco to buy more washers . While I was out I went to the workshop to PU the new seats I had bought from the UK.
I had bought the locating rubbers for the seat bottoms so decided to fit them , Looks like I will need to go back to the workshop tomorrow to get some bolts ,Attachment 129329 as the nut to secure the rubbers are not BSF or BSW. , I would say they are metric Or could be SAE, also the nut certs in the seat backs are not BSF either.Attachment 129330 Also fitted the new bulkhead to windscreen frame rubber that came with the seats
I have now knocked off for the day I have got L/R back & hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.:wheelchair:
I made an agreement with the good wife aka T/A when I need help LOL that we do house work on a Tuesday every week, it seems to be working ( I think) then down the shed to continue making small parts by the hundreds for my 5" live steam model Locomotive n tender, today I finished off the 8 main leaves for the tender, anyway 1950 landy sorry for the hi-jack, cheers Dennis
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