Thread: Time for a Re-fit

Originally Posted by Lostkiwi

Looking good

Thanks Neil! We're getting there. How's your old girl going?

Originally Posted by Johnno1969

Thanks Neil! We're getting there. How's your old girl going?

My old girl is good ...so is the the Landrover!
It's been on the road now for 6 months and i have done almost
2000miles Which for over here is a fare amount

But today the 186 started to puffing a bit of smoke Not to sure whats wrong yet but will try and investigate tomorrow

Originally Posted by Johnno1969

Ha! I did it!

I think.

Yeah not bad, but is that a run I can see in the paintwork on the front passenger side? No big deal I know. You'll just sand that part back and respray it.

Things are moving again. I'm back from a jaunt overseas, and it's time to get back to the Landy. Latest thing: cleaning up and painting all sorts of bits and pieces. Here they are undercoated.

Today I topcoated with black. No pics of that, but it does mean that I am very close to putting in the firewall. From there I expect that it will take only a few minutes to finish the rest of the vehicle.....

A little more progress this weekend. Thought I'd post a photo or two. The rubber boot on the bellhousing for the clutch release rod was about thirty-five years past its use-by date. I haven't been able to get another (though I am sure somebody has new ones) so I made a tidy little boot. It should hopefully keep a lot of rubbish away from the clutch mechanism. I also made up a bracket for the second long range tank (had one for years on the passenger side - adding one on the driver's side too). The photo is carefully angled to avoid showing my crappy welds.

A bit of luck as well. I bought a second long-range tank ages ago and was going to use it and the "original" (which has been patched up a bit over the years). Then I found another at a mate's place yesterday: much better than the patched one....and it's aluminium as well. I'd prefer a more original looking tank....but, hell, it's aluminium.....


Cheers,

John

Originally Posted by Johnno1969

Things are moving again. I'm back from a jaunt overseas, and it's time to get back to the Landy. Latest thing: cleaning up and painting all sorts of bits and pieces. Here they are undercoated.

Today I topcoated with black. No pics of that, but it does mean that I am very close to putting in the firewall. From there I expect that it will take only a few minutes to finish the rest of the vehicle.....

Putting in the firewall, eh? Sounds like a two man job. You should ask someone to give you a hand.

A really big day today. Not the hardest work, but big progress. I'd been meaning to clean out the inside of the chassis for a while; finally picked up a drain-cleaning attachment for the high pressure sprayer today. It was brilliant. It worked its way through each chassis rail brilliantly. Lots of detergent (there was a lot of oily dirt in there), a lot of hot water and then a lot of rubbish came out....dirt, leaves, sticks - and an amazing amount of grass out of the left hand rail. I will give it a number of weeks to dry out, then smother everything inside with Penetrol.

Then as I had a mate on hand it seemed a good time to put the firewall into place. It looks pretty good. there's one bit in the left footwell which I wish was a bit tidier, but it was some old work from a previous owner and I didn't really want to rip it out and start anew...as is, the rough panel work will be well-covered by the time I'm finished with it.

The Bronze Green is going to look good like only Bronze Green can.

I will post a few pics here now of today's activities. Also, I'll add some from yesterday evening when I started putting the underfloor lining on the seat base and transmission tunnel. It's not the actual soundproofing - that comes later - but I am lining the panels to deaden them.

Have a look at the nifty heat insulation on the firewall. A few tweaks needed to accommodate all the bits and pieces in the engine bay, But I'll get there....

John

More of those photos....