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sick of painting wheels
1 - Was on family hols in Cairns, drove to Port Douglas then ferry over to Daintree Village and saw this S2/2A ex army LR
2 - 3 got around to painting the two remaining rims in green, so over painting rims... i still have a spare to go[bigrolf]
4 - got my 6 new tie rod ends, fitted three remaining will have to wait till brackets securing them are cleaned and painted
5 - hard to see but have my 4 bump stops arrived as well.
coming still are my seat backs which i was lucky enough to secure x3, and part of the front hoodstick set in preparation for a soft top, one day
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I hope you counted the number of turns you screwed the old tie rod ends out so you knew how many turns to screw them back in. [bighmmm]That way every thing will be close to correct length once every thing is re connected.
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thanks
Did forget to count the number of turns on tie rod ends [bawl] But whose to say that the previous version was right given the age of the vehicle, someone else could of changed and did it up wrong... but a lesson for next time
1 those damn wheels, last one cleaned up
2 undercoated this will be the spare wheel
3 parcel arrived today with some goodies, 3 seat backs, and part of the hoodstick at the front above cabin area only, could not find anything else so grabbed these and the cover for the gearbox/firewall in not a bad condition
4 one seat has holes sadly, its very thin steel so may just paint and keep as is, would be hard for me to repair this one.
would love a pic of how these were wrapped, i have vinyl left over from the seat bases to use for the seat backs but unsure of the design, would need some felt to cover the steel frame before wrapping with vinyl ???
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If you know which old one goese were you should be able to work it out by looklng at the thread. Will save you a lot of grieftrying to get the rods the correct length
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seat update
1950Landy - i have thrown the old tie rod ends out, so will have to make do for now...
1 - seat backs partly sanded, one is more damaged so unsure to keep or to try and find another
2 - seat backs, two have now been painted front and backs, i am missing a third seat back bracket have the other two brackets
3 - whilst i had the green paint out painted the final 5th wheel
there are two rivets/holes at the base of the seat backs, was this to secure the vinyl to. next will be to clean up the brackets for the seat backs.
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there are two rivets/holes at the base of the seat backs, was this to secure the vinyl to.
Yes.
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seat update
1-3 gearbox cover sanded, painted green outer face, mat black on underside to match rest of vehicle, came up pretty good
4 - these are a combination of brackets i have for the hoodstick to the windscreen, but one is different with the slotted holes? Is this off another series vehicle? Foreground are securing nuts for where please. Are these part of the hoodstick.
5-6 seat back brackets cleaned and painted in silver
7 - placement of the seat backs to see first time what the seats look like on this vehicle.
final question - are the seat backs held in position by two bolts either side or split pins?
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seat update
1 painted both firewall supports ready for fitment (one day!)
2 had some left over felt measured and cut out for three seats
3 felt ready to be installed for seat backs
do these seat backs have any additional foam for padding? will wrap with vinyl next step
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steering wheel
nice find 67hardtop
1 steering wheel untouched, looked like crap
2 outer rubbish removed with a knife and just scrapping carefully
3 once all cleaned up revealed major cracks and 4 significant holes in the steering wheel
4 had some filler lying around so bogged up the holes, have seen others use this technique with good success, will allow to dry and then sand back, may need more coats though
having 2nd thoughts about these seats and whether to just buy brand new from exmoor trim at around $1000 delivered...
