Thread: Time for a Re-fit

The pins for the bonnet stay had split pins and washers on Series 1 and 2 and 2a. The special deal is Series 3 or at least late 2a.

I have replaced the split pins on the bonnet stay and hinge with R-clips, makes getting on and off easier.

John

Righto, here's the luggy thing.

I have scrutinised things intensely today and the verdict is "the luggy thing stays". It has the bonnet properly centred as far as the firewall is concerned: it's just the rest of the Land Rover that's crooked.

In truth I think that maybe the apparent lack of alignment at the front of the bonnet on the driver's side is due to twisting resulting from the bonnet stay being on that side and almost 50 years of it being lifted and lowered - usually with the spare wheel on the bonnet.

The driver's side inner guard all fitted up. It needed a little more trimming today to make sure that it'll be easy to remove and replace whenever required, which is pretty much par for the course with fiddling to get these things to fit. I expect much the same with the passenger side one tomorrow.

The first photo shows the nice little nylon spacers glued in place which create space between the extended inner guard and the footwell. They're actually a Land Rover part I found online once; I can't even remember what vehicle they're designed for or what they're meant to do. They suit this purpose, anyway.

Originally Posted by Johnno1969

The driver's side inner guard

If you ever decide to make them commercially I'll surely have few orders for you.. Excellent job.. Well done.

Nav

Don't suppose you have a pattern for that guard do you? And dimensions... I am thinking of knocking up something similar as the steel guards mine had are mostly dust on bob

Originally Posted by 450Dan

Don't suppose you have a pattern for that guard do you? And dimensions... I am thinking of knocking up something similar as the steel guards mine had are mostly dust on bob

I'll have to think about how I might manage that. I got these made by making some rough measurements and then a drawing incorporating the original dimensions with additions marked where I wanted them. I gave this (and the original items) to a bloke I know who plays with aluminium for a living and said "Can you make what's on the bit of paper?" That got me well started: the basic items already made, with nicely-turned edges and relatively thick aluminium.

Then it was just a matter of fitting, removing, trimming, fitting, removing, trimming etc etc to make things fit. The time-consuming bit was working our how to avoid the lower bulkhead bolt. I'm not sure my solution was the best, but it was the best with what I had on hand and it seems to work alright.

What I found yesterday was that, although the spacers are only about 3/8" at the bottom of the new inner guard, at the top I had to make an aluminium spacer about 2" thick for the fixing point on the underneath surface of the wing top. This was because it can't pivot slightly at the standard lower attachment point on the footwell, now being held straight by the extension below that point. The angle of the inner guard where it meets the wing top is different to original.

Righto, if you understood that last paragraph you're already on your way. I will see what I can do about making a drawing of the left hand item before I instal it. That should at least give basic dimensions and the shape of the area clearing the bulkhead bolt.

Cheers,

John

Remember how I said that I was going to instal the LH inner guard today?

I lied.

I don't mean to keep telling lies, but whenever I say "This weekend I am going to finish (insert job on Land Rover here)" to myself or anybody else I always end up, er, not finishing it.

I did embark upon the whole inner-guard-fitting exercise, but it was a little slower than expected and I had a bit more trimming to do to make sure that it and the base upon which the exhaust fan sits to not run into each other in such a way as to make fitting the inner guard (after wing and everything else is in place first) difficult. That's pretty much sorted now, but as I went along a number of parallel jobs presented themselves, as usual:

I did a bit more work on the aircleaner cradle so that it would not be too difficult to remove the aircleaner for element changes (little bits and pieces have been catching on each other and I wasn't happy with that).

Then I gritted my teeth, got out the holesaw and prepared to wreak havoc upon the passenger side wing in preparation for fitting a snorkel. This was completed, thankfully, without an "Oh Jeeeeezuz ****in' Kerrrist!!!" moment as I seem to have put the hole in the right place first time and saved myself the trouble of more panel work and repainting on the wing.

John

Originally Posted by Johnno1969

whenever I say "This weekend I am going to finish (insert job on Land Rover here)" to myself or anybody else I always end up, er, not finishing it

that sounds all too familiar!

As said above, you've done a sterling job with the inner guard