Thread: Time for a Re-fit

Originally Posted by wrinklearthur

Winter weight diesel can do that on indirect injection engines.
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Hey thanks Arthur. Interesting. I will keep fiddling with the timing and see how I go...

The wheels are coming along.

I had them sandblasted (just didn't feel like going through the wire-brush-on-grinder routine this time...). I got two quotes: one pretty reasonable, one ridiculously expensive. After some deliberation (4.8 seconds, mainly given over to laughter) I said thanks to Ridiculously-Expensive-Quote-Bloke and that I would take my wheels from his reception area and think about it (run away).

So here they are on my kitchen floor. Unfortunately Cheap-Quote-Bloke forgot to take off the weights before sandblasting and undercoating - but that is hardly a problem... just a little cleaning up and undercoating and it's done.

One photo has the little sample of "Limestone" paint I had made up. Interestingly, the paint shop bloke could not make head or tail of the paint formula I gave them (got it from this forum, from a post by Diana, I think) - but he did find a Land Rover colour in his catalogue from 1966-68. Only those two years - I don't know what that's all about. As my Landy is a 1965, I am not sure if using this colour is correct or not - I might post a quick thread to query it.

Two of the rims are, I think, ex-military - with a reinforcing ring around the centre of the dish (will post a photo). They also appear to be dished about 5mm deeper. I will post some photos of the numbers on the wheels. I guess I have six wheels it makes sense to have the four identical wheels as my road wheels and the reinforced ones as the spares.

Cheers,

John

Here are the six of them. I'll have to just work around them doing the roast lamb tonight.

Ah, Sunday: Fiddling with the Landy, with The Who's Quadrophenia blasting out the neighbourhood.....

Landies, Reign O'er Me.....

I think I might want to put sill panels back on it.

Anybody got any?

Originally Posted by Johnno1969

Here are the six of them. I'll have to just work around them doing the roast lamb tonight.

So the new fridge is still in the lounge then?

Yeah. It is quite convenient, though it does mean that there's less room there for the trampoline.

Started painting the wheels. One coat finished.

Time for a cuppa.