Thread: LANDY'S LAST RESTORATION BY ME

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.IMAG1394.jpg
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. IMAG1396.jpgIMAG1397.jpg Will not be able to do any more work until end of next week.

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 coatedIMAG1414.jpg in 1/2 hr so a second & 3rd coat were applied before mixing a 50/50 mix for the final coat.IMAG1411.jpg After lunch the paint was dry enough to start fitting the Galv capping.IMAG1413.jpg

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. IMAG1415.jpg IMAG1416.jpg

While we were up the coast last week I came across a shop who had these paintings for saleIMAG1407.jpgIMAG1408.jpg They booth have S1 Land Rovers in them along with other classic cars. I was tempted to buy them until i was the price & my wife said they were too expensive to put on the wall of the garage.
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.IMAG1417.jpg I then bolted the new D Lamps I bought a couple of weeks ago on.IMAG1419.jpg Then opened them up so I could connect the wires & then it was test timeIMAG1420.jpgIMAG1421.jpg Two tail / stop lights working. The next job was to refit the seat box & gear box cover.IMAG1422.jpgIMAG1424.jpg 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.IMAG1423.jpg

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 IMAG1427.jpg 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. so into the parts boxes to find the sill & there it was in the second box i looked in. I hadn't bothered looking in the boxes as I was looking for some thing over a meter long not around 400mm long.IMAG1426.jpg 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. 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 ,IMAG1428.jpg 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.IMAG1430.jpg 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.