LANDY'S LAST RESTORATION BY ME

I got some time to do a bit more on Landy today.
!st job was to assemble the last of the brakes now that the ball bearing is out of the bleeder.
2nd job was to renew the wiring harness in the chassis. I attached a pull wire to the old harness at the rear of the chassis & another to the brake switch & fuel sender wires & pulled the old wires out from the front.
I cut some plastic tubing to fit over the end of the new harness & taped up all the loose wires then attached the pull wires & pulled the new harness through the chassis.
My next job was one I have avoiding , somebody had drilled out the hole in the clutch X shaft, I wanted to resize the hole. I found it had been enlarged from 1/4 " to just under 10mm. I cut about 40mm of 10mm round bar & put it in the freezer for a couple of hours , I also countersunk the hole opening & heated the end if the X shaft until it was glowing red then pressed the 10 mm bar into the hole. After it air cooled I found the centre of the plug & set the X shaft up in the drill press Level & the plug in line so the hole would be drilled at the correct angle to the leaver position .

I had a new pipe connector on the X shaft in my parts collection to replace the old one with the O/S hole but when I remover I found that by enlarging the hole it had weakened the pipe & there was a crack at the end. Once I fitted the pipe to the throw-out bearing X shaft I fitted a new boot in the bell housing, I also replaced the boot on the back of the hand brake backing plate were the shaft comes through.

I was now ready to refit the Gear box. I spent a bit of time looking for were I had put the clutch line up tool 29 years ago & cleaned up the pressure plate. I then rubbed chalk on the clutch linings so it won't weld it's self to the flywheel & pressure plate before I get Landy back on the road. Then refitted the clutch assembly. ( I also put some lube in the spigot bush)
Using the engine crane I lifted the Gear box into place .That's my bit for today, hope fully after taking my wife's car for service in the morning I will have some time in the afternoon to get the bulk head ready for painting, it should only be a matter of giving it a key sand & degrease . Last time I restored the car I galvanized the bulk head. That wasn't a good idea as the dash panel has double panels & it wasn't flat when it came back. :mad: many hours were spent getting it flat again. Off to have a shower now & sit in the A/C :D

I've not heard of putting chalk on the clutch linings, I may have to employ the idea on my 88". Thanks for the tip! :)

Cheers,

When it comes to painting your panels , I can offer a trick

I use Wattyl Agricultural enamel , the colour is Deep Bronze Green from the British Standard Colour (BSC) chart .

The paint dries to a gloss as you would expect , trouble is, it shows up every little dimple and dent . To avoid this , I use a 400 grade wet & dry paper and give the glossy panels a good rub . The result is a nice patina , it is a matt finish , slightly chalky looking just like its been in the sun for 10 years .

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Originally Posted by TimNZ

I've not heard of putting chalk on the clutch linings, I may have to employ the idea on my 88". Thanks for the tip! :)

Cheers,

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The chalk tends to stop the moisture.

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Originally Posted by series1buff

When it comes to painting your panels , I can offer a trick

I use Wattyl Agricultural enamel , the colour is Deep Bronze Green from the British Standard Colour (BSC) chart .

The paint dries to a gloss as you would expect , trouble is, it shows up every little dimple and dent . To avoid this , I use a 400 grade wet & dry paper and give the glossy panels a good rub . The result is a nice patina , it is a matt finish , slightly chalky looking just like its been in the sun for 10 years .

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The Wattyl Deep Bronze Green is not dark enough for a 1950 LR , it is more the colour of a 53 LR., I am usingPPG Ameron industrial enamel it will dry to a gloss & it drys very fast I can usually move the panels with in a couple of hours unlike the Wattyl . I also use a hardner in the paint I know the gloss will show all the blemishes but I prefer the gloss finish & it is a lot of work sanding & not taking the paint off the rivets on the bonnet.

Well it hasn't been a good day, my plan was to degrease & wash the bulk head with truck wash then give it a lite sand with fine wet & dry ready for painting.

Woke up this morning & it is raining , after doing all the little jobs my wife wanted done we get a phone call from wife's friend who has sold there house & settlement day is this afternoon. Can I do a dump run for her, so off to her house to load ute up with rubbish & go to the dump. 4hr later i get home, but it had stoped raining, so that was the morning gone. :(
My wife then returned home for lunch before going to hair dressers . Around 1.30 she left to go & have her hair done, thinking I would have a couple of hours before her return I got my saw horses out to set the bulkhead on it but my son in-law had borrowed them & broken the brace on one of them. :( by the time i fixed that it was poring rain so set up in garage were wife parks her car . I managed to degrease the bulk head ( there was a lot of grease around the gear box opening thrown up from the tail shaft ) & was half way through truck washing when my wife turned up so had to shift every thing out of the way. :mad: It looks like the rain has set in for the rest of the day so that's about it for today . I did also manage to run a BSF tap through all the caged nuts , I will do them again after painting to make sure there is no paint in the threads.

Today was spent getting the bulkhead & fittings ready for painting tomorrow
(I HOPE) if the humility is ok.
I also made up some caged nuts to attach the floor panel to the bulkhead. I will rivet them in place , the heads or the rivet's won't be seen once the floor is in place.

I have a question :confused: , does any one know what colour the hooked throttle was painted? I painted it black last time but was thinking that it wasn't painted at all or was silver . The only photo in my Original Land Rover Series 1 book has one photo of it & it does not look like it has any paint on the hook but the body looks like it is body colour.

The weather in Brisbane is hot with low humidity & not a cloud in the sky , A good day for painting.
1st up was the bulkhead, Instrument panel & fuel pump / regulator panel. I set it up on a couple of carpenters horses & mixed up my Deep Bronze Green enamel & added enamel hardener. Because I am spraying over the DBG enamel that I had sprayed 29 years ago I gave it one coat with out thinners. It was dry enough to handle with 1/4 of an hour so I moved it out into the sun for around 3 hr"s . while the bulk was drying in the sun I set up my small touch up gun with Black gloss enamel & set out the bolt on bits off the bulk head for painting, then moved them out into the sun to dry
I then bought the bits I had already painted DBG & gave them a coat of DBG with 50% thinners . Then as soon as it was dry enough to move I put it back out into the sun. I will give it a few days to dry properly before bolting all the parts I have painted black back on .
The mark on the instrument panel is not a bit that I have missed but a shadow, but I will need to paint it again as the paint is thin on the edges on the curved ends. also the other plate the surface that you can't see in the photo needs fixing as it is the side that is seen & it has a couple of touch marks.