Thread: Time for a Re-fit

He's some skinny little farmer from down the road. Usually if he turns up I give him a chocolate biscuit or something to keep him going.

Here's some more progress. I did a few checks today for a dry run on fitting the seat base, fuel tanks, floor and transmission tunnel. All seems to be coming along well. The aftermarket fuel tank sits a little further outboard than one normally would, but I have to place it that way to clear the head of the spring shackle bolt. It's going to be tight, but should be alright.

The lining for the floor panels seems to work very well and makes them nice and snug without making them hard to fit. Once all was in place, I was able to peer into and around the mechanicals and the panels to start working out exactly how the soundproofing will sit. It sure beats trying to do all this upside down with the vehicle already assembled.

Lots of nice new stainless steel bolts are going to be tacking the whole thing together.

It's been a good weekend.....

Two more pics. Doing this stuff is a welcome change from road muck, wire-brushing, sanding, grinding, welding.

I wish I could work on this every day of the week...

Originally Posted by Johnno1969

The aftermarket fuel tank sits a little further outboard than one normally would, but I have to place it that way to clear the head of the spring shackle bolt.

I meant "spring hanger", but I guess you knew that...

Well, not as productive as last weekend - but I did start fitting the soundproofing to the seat base. Some time back, I bought some fancy stuff from a mob in Sydney: cost me about $170 for a piece roughly four and a half feet by three. I know it's a fair bit, but as this rebuild seems to be taking forever these costs seem to be absorbed into the household budget (actually, now I think about it, the Landy is the only thing I spend money on). Anyway...moving right along..... I thought I'd try this stuff as I have gone through any number of cheap alternatives, sheets of lead, you-name-it in the quest for a quiet(er) IIA (with overdrive). I am using this stuff to line the firewall directly behind the engine (for the the rest of the engine bay I'm using a combination sandwich of cheaper materials), the transmission tunnel and seat base. I even have a bit left over now and I will see what I feel like doing when the floor goes in.

The outside is a tough aluminum....actually, er, let's let the manufacturers do this bit. I will cut and paste a bit from their product information:

Facing – Tough aluminium polymer film, oil and water resistant. Rated 4Zero to AS1530.3
Front – Acoustic absorption foam (typically 25mm open cell foam, hydrolysis resistant combustion modified).
Barrier layer – 8 kg/m2 loaded polymer barrier, high performance even at low frequencies.
Back – Foam decoupler (typically 6mm open cell foam, hydrolysis resistant, combustion modified)

I couldn't have said it better myself. Anyway, I will use this stuff for starters and combined with the panel lining I am hopeful about the eventual results. I also have a few more bits and pieces up my sleeve to augment the material if I need to. The way I look at it, I am happy to throw the kitchen sink at this part of the job (oh, though not to break the bank and get one of those floor liners from Britain.... I think I will wait and see before going that far).

When the Landy's running again, she will also have a modified Fairey with four times the normal oil capacity and cooling fins and all new bearings and bushes and seals.

Surely, surely that will make things a bit quieter??

Righto, here are some photos. You can see the layers in the soundproofing quite clearly.

Cheers,

John

So what did you do on the weekend? Nothing eh?

Nah, I was at work getting in a few extra hours before we all get Campbelled.

Stripping paint off the inside of the tub today. The thing I keep noticing is how good and tough the original paint was. Been the same on every panel: the later resprays disappear and leave the original Bronze Green. Why on earth did anybody ever paint over it in the first place?

Check out the photo: after having a go at the surface with a very kali paint stripper, followed by a wire brush on a grinder.... everything else disappears and then there's the Bronze Green underneath, almost unmarked.

Oh, and one last thing. A curse forever upon the house of the man who ever painted this vehicle bright yellow.

John