Time for a Re-fit

Managed to finish (well, pretty much finish) the bracket for the aircleaner. It was a bit fiddly to get right, but it looks like it will fit alright. Even though a number of things about the Landy are hardly original, I have been doing my best to "sort" it over the years to more standard specs, especially related to parts replacement. The 200Tdi aircleaner is hardly standard, but I have set it up so that the aircleaner to manifold hose is a standard 2.25 petrol aircleaner hose. A flexible hose part of the snorkel, when it is complete, will be a 2.25 diesel standard air hose, and of course the aircleaner element is standard 200Tdi - so that any replacement parts in the future are easy off-the-shelf jobs with associated part numbers. I don't mind a few things on the vehicle not being 1965 issue, but I want it all very straightforward.

Today I also replaced a few not-so-good studs and nuts on the swivel pin retainers and did a final torque and locked the tabs. Filled the front diff housing and swivel housings with new oil too. Steering is finished and ready to go (oh, except for a damper, but you get the point).

John

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Originally Posted by Johnno1969

... (oh, except for a damper, but you get the point).

John

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Steering damper was optional equipment on Series 1,2,2a and possibly 3. You can certainly live without one unless driving on very rough roads.

John

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

Steering damper was optional equipment on Series 1,2,2a and possibly 3. You can certainly live without one unless driving on very rough roads.

John

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Thanks John. Mine has had one since I bought it, so I will probably get around to finding a replacement damper somewhere along the line soon-ish.

Luckily I do not have a schedule for this rebuild. If I did, it would make interesting reading in the annals of failure.

I was going to do the valve seals today, but of course I didn't. I decided that I didn't really like the ones I have, so there's another delay while I get some more.

At least I have the aircleaner mount and the steering gear from yesterday to give me some small sense of progress for the weekend.

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Originally Posted by Johnno1969

Luckily I do not have a schedule for this rebuild. If I did, it would make interesting reading in the annals of failure.

I was going to do the valve seals today, but of course I didn't. I decided that I didn't really like the ones I have, so there's another delay while I get some more.

At least I have the aircleaner mount and the steering gear from yesterday to give me some small sense of progress for the weekend.

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It's time to admit defeat. Put it up for sale as an unfinished project. There must be someone out there who's prepared to give you a couple of hundred bucks for it.

John, I can only dream of the kinds of failure you have manfully achieved. I can only redouble my efforts and strive for the epic heights you have thus far heroically attained...

but, if it helps, I'll double whatever Wally is offering.

:)

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Originally Posted by garrywlh

John, I can only dream of the kinds of failure you have manfully achieved. I can only redouble my efforts and strive for the epic heights you have thus far heroically attained...

but, if it helps, I'll double whatever Wally is offering.

:)

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Wally has been in and out of clinics from here to Lourdes as his desperate family has sought a cure for the bitter and twisted jealousy which threatens to consume his very being. His words simply cannot be trusted. He can't bring himself to admit it, but he wants what I have. More to the point, he once had it in his shed but all he did was complain about it until it was too late and it was taken from him...

Thanks for your kind words, Garry. They are a salve in these dark and desperate times.

Can you have epic heights of failure???

Surely it should be something like "the titanic depths of failure"

:whistling:

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Originally Posted by Ozdunc

Can you have epic heights of failure???

:whistling:

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Yes, certainly. I have scaled them frequently. The view is incredible.

Here's an interview that contains some sound advice on failure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLBwoU4KhBE

You should welcome failure John. I just wonder whether you're taking the wrong approach to this.