Thread: Time for a Re-fit

Today I also...

....picked up the injectors from getting another clean-up and fitted them this evening....and.....

.....cold-galv painted the body capping and then finished it with hammer-finish.

Photos to come tomorrow.

Looking damn good now, be back on the road soon! wish mine were coming along but have hit the roadblock known as a lack of free time, and the weather hasnt been particularly pleasant on my days off either. oh how i long for a carport/shed

Thanks Dan. Yep, I know what you mean about the shed/carport. A good home for the vehicle makes big difference. I've got a carport and a shed of sorts, but it's not exactly a workshop and every day I have to haul tools in and out of the house and secure the Landy from the weather as best I can when I put it to bed. Getting a workbench a couple of months ago has made a huge difference. I even have a vice now! Goodness knows how I didn't make a complete mess of things and/or kill myself with some of the things I did (particularly with the grinder) before that.

Anyway, three days more of Easter left: I had better get cracking....

Busy day...but now I'm sitting here writing I can't remember exactly what I did with it.

Oh yeah... finished painting the galv capping and fittings on the tub. Looks pretty good. I just hope the finish lasts.

I fitted the rear lights; they look pretty good. They're not wired up yet, but it certainly is nice to have them in place. I went to get some nice stainless steel self-tapping screws to fix them to the car, and reflected on how things have come along since I used to grub around for whatever grungy screw would roughly fit the job in hand.

I also spent ages in the afternoon/evening tidying-up wiring (again). This time I really meant it, though. I am at the stage when I'm pretty-much finalising how everything is going to be arranged for good(ish).

Oh, and I got the motor running nicely. Amazing what clean injectors can do.

Cheers,

John

everything looks so clean on your land rover... i look at my mess and feel highly inadequate lol, oh well i shall have to use it as motivation to get my arse in gear

Originally Posted by 450Dan

everything looks so clean on your land rover... i look at my mess and feel highly inadequate lol, oh well i shall have to use it as motivation to get my arse in gear

Hang in there, Dan! It's a long road from mess to clean, and then the vehicle hits the road and gets messy again. I think it's called "The Circle of Life" - or something like that.

It's looking good
I know where you are coming from with the wiring, it's a right pain. I did have everything tagged but over time most of those came off, as did the re-tags ... so I'm still sorting mine out, but getting there slowly!

I've given mine one bath in the 14 months it's been off the road so I'm used to mine being dusty. it will be due again soon though

Things are getting (more) interesting. In a good way. It is starting to look like a Land Rover.

I kind of threw myself at Easter.... running from one job on the Landy to another on the house and back to the Landy again. I actually made some progress too.

So, since Friday, in a nutshell, we have:

• Injectors cleaned and re-calibrated. Engine running like it always used to.
• Various small fuel or oil leaks at pipe unions fixed.
• Galv capping all nicely painted (thanks for the tip, GG).
• Wiring finally sorted and finalised (for now).
• Headlights installed.
• RH inner guard checked for fit under wing: looks good.
• Seat back bulkhead re-riveted here and there, spare wheel attachment and strengthening rib re-installed.
• Electric fan fitted in front of radiator.

It doesn't look like much, now that I've listed it. But it involved running hither and thither getting more nuts, bolts, washers, picking up injectors, measuring, cutting, hammering, bending, drilling, tightening, cleaning and painting, installing, bleeding, checking, replacing and checking again.

The right hand guard is (again) temporarily fixed to the vehicle while I try to get everything to line up alright. It almost looks like a motor car now.

The rubbers which lie between the headlight bins and the radiator panel are still pretty good (they're not from my car originally; they came with the "new" radiator panel). So, I gave them a scrub up, smothered them in Lanox and installed them.

It is really nice to be able to assemble things with nice new stainless steel nuts and bolts (with nickel anti-seize on the threads).

When I was installing the cross-bar I made to support the electric fan, I was lining it up to mark the bolt holes when my eye fell upon something that I had been using earlier in the day putting a post into the ground: so, unable to resist the pointless and deliciously absurd gesture - I used a spirit level to line up a part on a Series Land Rover....


Cheers,

John

P.S. Why is Easter only four days? Why not eight?