Thread: LANDY'S LAST RESTORATION BY ME

I was going through some photo's & found some early photo's of Landy .
IMAG2045.jpg Landy's first outing with the Rover Car Club on the back of a Datson Homer. The two good looking girls also belong to me , the oldest one is over 40 now. Will probably get into trouble for telling you that . IMAG2047.jpg Bulkhead I picked up from Land Rover Land ( now British Off Road) after picking Landy up from Keith's.
IMAG2046.jpgIMAG2048.jpgIMAG2049.jpgIMAG2053.jpg Club display I did a few years back at All British Day. untitled.pngarthur day 2.jpg My display at Arthur Goddard Day a couple of years ago.
These two were other !950 80"'s I had , booth have been sold on.
IMAG2056.jpg I took the side plate Holden out of this one & fitted a LR 2 1/4 lit. IMAG2054.jpg This one had duel wheels on the rear & the chassis had been extended a meter behind the cab , it had a 12mm thick steel tray . It was owned by a logging company . when it was too wet to get the trucks to the logs they would put them on the LR & take the logs to the trucks .

Had a couple of hours to spare today so decided to fit the new carby my wife bought me for my birthday back in January. ( Well i bought it & she warped it up & gave it to me, got what I wanted for my Birthday)

IMAG2127.jpgIMAG2130.jpgIMAG2131.jpgThe vacuum attaches in a different position to the original carby but put another coil in copper tube & it soon fitted. Started motor & runs like a bird.

Also bought some body filler for aluminum to fill some dents in the R/H door , the last time i used common garden variety filler & it caused white powder corrosion under the paint.
I had the door glass blasted & applied some filler .

IMAG2125.jpg I am trying not to fill over the spot welds so am only doing a small area at a time & if I do cover a weld i am using the runner tip of a pencil to smug the weld marks into the filler.

IMAG2132.jpg Second coat of filler just need to sand flat then apply etch primer & lite coat of spray putty .

Not much Land Rover work today , just sanded body filler , two coats of etch primer then two coats of spray putty. Will apply a couple more coats of spray putty tomorrow & sand it .

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Booth doors are now prepped & primed , so will only need a light sand in the morning & hopefully ( IF IT IS NOT RAINING ) will get the top coat on.IMAG2144.jpgIMAG2154.jpgIMAG2152.jpg

The a started off good , gave the doors a lite sand & mixed up some Deep Bronze Green & sprayed the two doors. IMAG2156.jpgIMAG2157.jpg

Then up to the workshop to run a bit more thread down on the new bolts I bought for the bulkhead to chassis mount. also drilled out a couple of large washers to use as packers on the gear box mounts so I could centralize the gear leaver in the tunnel. I was having trouble getting the boot in. By the time I fitted the packers & boot the doors were dry so decided to fit the capping's.
I fitted the capping on the R/H door with out any problem.
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THIS IS WERE EVERY THING STARTED GOING WRONG .
To start with I had ordered s full set of domed alum rivets from the UK way back & i now find I am 8 rivets short, Grrrrrrrrrr. Then while fitting the the pop rivets the filler I used on the door cracked ( I must have used too much hardener ) IMAG2163.jpg

I am not sure which is the best way to fix it , take the capping off , remove all the paint & start again or try to fix it with the capping in place.

So I have given up for the day now & see what tomorrow brings.

Oh dear!

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Oh dear!

Thats what I said but there were a lot more words said that I can not print on here.

I removed the capping this morning & dug out the filler IMAG2164.jpg I found were the filler had cracked there was a dish in the door skin so when the pop rivets pulled up tight it caused the filler to crack.
I had a think about it & decided to drill a 1/2" hole in the box behind each of the offending rivet holes. IMAG2167.jpg Then I placed the door skin down on a block of wood I used a drift to knock the skin down flatIMAG2165.jpg then sanded the remaining filler off & mixed up some more filler. IMAG2168.jpg I will leave it until Friday to sand the new filler back & prepping ready for top coat.
I hope once capping is back on the holes will be hiden. May put some rubber plugs in them