Thread: Time for a Re-fit

But wait - there's more!

I finally got around to drilling the holes for the bumper bar bolts in the new chassis dumb-irons. Amazingly, I got it all right first time. I was expecting to stuff it up and end up filing holes larger to get things to fit.

In the photos, you will see the radical procedure of using a set of calipers to position the centres to be drilled - a bold move indeed with a Landy. Readers will be pleased to hear that when a good fit was made for the template bumper bar the holes were, fittingly, not evenly positioned in the dumb iron.

What the hell - it all lines up......

...and when too much Deep Bronze Green is never enough:

Painted the bonnet and put a few more coats on the wings.

That's it for this weekend.

John

yes please; keep on 'dribbling', Johnno...

Thanks again for the invite. Looking forward to getting together sometime. Tried to phone you the other day. Will try again soon.

Garry

You've got way more done this weekend than I did that's for sure

It's all looking good, well done

Originally Posted by Johnno1969

P.S. I left that bit of damage to the tailgate un-repaired intentionally. That hole has always kinda been part of the Landy, if that makes any sense...

makes plenty of sense to me - I've based my whole project around that line of thinking. It would be a shame to hide it's past

Originally Posted by garrywlh

yes please; keep on 'dribbling', Johnno...

Thanks again for the invite. Looking forward to getting together sometime. Tried to phone you the other day. Will try again soon.

Garry

Hey Garry,

Yeah mate - drop in any time. I am sometimes out of phone range for a few days at a time, so maybe send a text and I'm more likely to get it.

Cheers,

John

Originally Posted by Cobber

makes plenty of sense to me - I've based my whole project around that line of thinking. It would be a shame to hide it's past

Yep. That's dead right. Occasionally, there are some bits I tidy up for whatever reason - but some of the damage is part of the vehicle now. I'm particularly partial to the dent on the waistline of the right-hand wing just near the firewall.

I guess I did get a fair bit done this weekend, which goes a little way to making up for all those weekends when I manage to do three-fifths of ****-all.

Cheers,

John

I began today optimistically planning (hoping/hallucinating) that I might just manage to have my last day of surface preparation and painting (Deep Bronze Green bodywork, anyway. I don't count the roof. That's the Limestone icing on the cake).

Of course, the gods of Series Land Rovers had other plans.

I've got these two beautiful doors. Fifty years old and only a little surface rust on some areas of the door tops and frames. Almost nothing. Trouble is, one door top just will not budge. It has been sitting in my house for about three years, getting regular squirts of WD40 onto the one seized bolt, waiting for the day when I would triumphantly whack it with a hammer and progress with stripping down the door.

Today was to have been that day.

I whacked, I belted, I hammered, I pounded and I struck. Nothing. I tried swearing. Still nothing.

I applied some heat. Nothing.

I applied more heat. Nada.

More. Nichts.

More. Hamna kitu.

Whack.

Belt!

Smack!

Pow!

(Full "Batman" treatment)

Still it did not budge.

So, I applied several more minutes of focused swearing and left the scene.

Went out to the shed, changed the valve stem seals (again). I seem to have been getting oil drawn down into number one pot, so I've forked out some cash for OE valve seals (much better quality than the previous aftermarket jobbies). Hopefully that sorts things.

Still, the door top awaits me in the carport. Mocking me.

John