Thread: Time for a Re-fit

Originally Posted by Johnno1969

After several weeks of being unable to work on the Landy due to non-Land-Rover components of my life intruding...

ive had to shuffle mine down the list of priorities lately too but reading about other people's makes me feel better!

This wee project is inching forward.

I haven't had much time to work on it lately, but have been preparing the roof for painting and organising the seals for the hardtop sides.

I've beaded the seams in the roof with a polymer sealant. Today, I sanded the seams back, then got as far as the first topcoat on the external surface of the roof. It seems to be coming up alright.

I'm making the lower seals for the hardtop from lengths of rubber bought from Clark Rubber a while ago. They seem to be taking shape alright, but the first rainstorm will tell.

Here's the roof, and a few photos of how things are starting to look.

Looking good. I bet your starting to get excited about the completion date and getting to drive your beasty around!

Yep - absolutely. It's pretty close now.

Mind you, I always seem to be able to find some-job-or-other to take longer over than I should, or leave unfinished....

Originally Posted by Johnno1969

Yep - absolutely. It's pretty close now.

Mind you, I always seem to be able to find some-job-or-other to take longer over than I should, or leave unfinished....

Haha yea, theres always a job that you just don't want to have to do, so you avoid it for as long as possible; probably making it harder the longer you leave it! haha. That's me as well.

I've found that lately every time I go to do something theres always a problem with it, either I don't have the parts or something just doesn't work so I get stuck on it and I lose motivation to work on it.

Yep. The thing is so often that a job is basically finished, but there's some part or other missing or I need to buy some tool or paint or whatever and can't get it until next week... and then the next weekend I am not working on the Landy, and then when I get back to it I realise that I forgot to buy what I needed anyway, then I have a cup of tea....

I got a few more coats of Limestone onto the roof, then got stuck into the tropical roof panel.

Just shut up shop for the day... I had high hopes of getting the tropical panel painted today as well, but it has a fair bit to be done before I can take to it with the spray gun. All the rivets attaching the strengthening ribs to the panel were cream-crackered, so I knocked them all out before commencing the clean-up.

There's the usual crappy old paint and gunge on the tropical panel, so I have spent the afternoon cleaning it up, as well as prepping for the little bits of bog it's going to need here and there and straightening the edges with a small hammer and a block of wood for a dolly.

Until next time....