Thread: LANDY'S LAST RESTORATION BY ME

I was being lazy , knew I should have gone & picked up the engine crane before I started .

I managed to get about 3hr's work on Landy today before my wife came home & parked her car in garage in front of landy. That was the painting for the day.
I top coated the chassis in Deep Bronze Green , my small touch up gun worked a treat getting into tight spaces & not getting too much over spray on anything.
This gun will do a spot as big as a 5 cent piece. I also removed the oil filter , starter motor, distributer , tappet covers so I could paint the motor.
I know , I know I got overspray on the timing cover but I intender to pull the cover off & sand blast it to remove the rust stain from when the water pump leaked a few years ago.
I have picked up a cold the last few days & not feeling too bright so I have called it a day .
I am waiting for my new wiring harness to arrive , I was told 6 weeks & it's been 8 weeks now Sent them an email this morning to see what the hold up is .

I thought it about time you surfaced LOL but now your going to take a nose dive with your illness, anyway mate keep plugging at it, here's hoping your symptoms clear up soon, cheers mate Dennis

Looking after twins tomorrow & willbe picking up some seals for gearbox & transfer case friday morning . Should get all the black bits painted on motor also.. Also I had some new selector shaft seals that I put some were safe so I would not loose them, guess what I can not find them. Probely will have to buy some more. I will probely find them after I buy the new ones ,it is a bugger getting old.

All my plans went out the window this morning , on my way to PU the seals I had a call from my brother who is ment to be racing in historic racing this weekend. The Jag will not run it was running fine yesterday. I PU the seals & went to the workshop. By the time I got there he had checked it had fuel . He said he had replaced the points & condenser last week . I checked the points & found them burnt & crusty. We pulled out the distributer & replaced the points & condenser again & refitted the distributer. Still no go. I noticed he had a different coil on the car & asked what voltage it was but it had no markings on it ( he replaced the old coil because it was getting very hot) . I grabed the old coil & pluged in the wires & sat it on top of the motor. Now try that, she sprung into life. the new coil he had fitted last week was faulty ( it was one he had in his parts) . So off to parts supplier for a new coil, load the car on trailer & off to Morgan Park.
With that gone I went home ready to do some sand blasting , bugger the sand got wet during the last storm & would not go through the gun so off to Hare Forbs to buy a new bag of sand ( luck at last they had a sale on) I just get home & all ready to do some work & grand sons turn up for a swim, so packed up for the day,
Well tomorrow is another day with a bit of luck I will get something done.

Brother just rang to say he did some practice at track , Jag is pulling 6000RPM no problem , at least day was not a complete waist.

Spent afternoon removing the brake shoes , pulled pistons out of wheel cylinders & removing M/Cyl. All the cylinders checked out OK & will only require kits.
Then I moved on to the rear axles, undid the brake pipes & all the dolts through the backing plate but do you think I can get the axles to come out. Did the normal mechanics method of bolting the wheel back on & floging the xxxx out of it with a big hammer, not even a mm. Almost knocked the chassis off the stands. Do not remember them being this hard last time.
I do not want to put heat on it , the bearings are OK , just wast to replace the seals & check the drain hole is not blocked.
I am thinling may be a plate across the axel flange & 2 bottle jacks back to the chassis. What do you think Dennis / Keith.

Worth a try
I have never had that problem with any of mine(touch wood)
You will work it out
Twisted splines , do you think?

Keith