Thread: Time for a Re-fit

Originally Posted by Ozdunc

....... as the board is plastic so won't case wear on the other components. .....
Cheers

Unfortunately, this is not what happens, as I found out when I had a nylon fuel line touching a steel brake line on the County. The steel wore through, not the nylon. What happens is that in these circumstances, the softer material gets grit off the road embedded in it, and then acts as an abrasive.

I wonder how many enlarged spring bushes are the result of previous use of poly bushes. Not many I suspect - the main culprit on spring eyes is probably the rust that you cleaned off!

As an aside, bushes that are tight in spring eyes can be easier to get out if you spread the spring eye slightly by driving a cold cisel between the eye and the top of the spring. Don't overdo it.

You can tighten a bush in a spring eye by wrapping it in thin shim steel.

John

Loving reading through this refit! The series looks so good. I love your have a go attitude!

Originally Posted by dickyjoe

Loving reading through this refit! The series looks so good. I love your have a go attitude!

Thanks mate,

I've just got to apologise that it's been a fits-and-starts thread. It really is pretty-much finished, in that the vehicle has been on the road since late 2014. But the Landy hit the road with a few little jobs, which were part of the re-fit, as-yet undone - and I have hardly had much time with her since.... I really would like to add these little bits from her sea trials before all is said and done.

At present, I am looking through the several thousand photos I took of the work and realising that I was quite stingy on what I posted (As GG has cornered the market in high-definition photos of threads and bits of alloy, I didn't see much point in a double-up. Hehehehe....). Maybe I will post a few more.

A quick question: I took some cool little videos with a phone when things were nearing completion. I can open and run them with Quicktime - but I need to rotate them through 90deg before they can be watched without people getting sore necks. If I run them in other programmes, I can manipulate the image but I lose the all-important sound....

Does anybody know how to fix this????

One thing I have had in my head through this entire rebuild would be to set up the door tops so that they could be folded over, rather than removed. Then, lo and behold, I managed to find a photo which shows that somebody else (unsurprisingly) has already done it.

I might look into this. Then again, I might not.

Originally Posted by Johnno1969

A quick question: I took some cool little videos with a phone when things were nearing completion. I can open and run them with Quicktime - but I need to rotate them through 90deg before they can be watched without people getting sore necks. If I run them in other programmes, I can manipulate the image but I lose the all-important sound....

Does anybody know how to fix this????

In fact, I am having trouble posting any videos here...rotated or otherwise...

Originally Posted by Johnno1969

One thing I have had in my head through this entire rebuild would be to set up the door tops so that they could be folded over, rather than removed. Then, lo and behold, I managed to find a photo which shows that somebody else (unsurprisingly) has already done it.

I might look into this. Then again, I might not.

thats a great idea that I may pursue.... BUT wouldn't you be concerned if you were in tight trees etc that the windows become more prone to damage? there again if you dont drive through tight stuff then it doesn't matter....

My first thought about seeing the windows hanging down was, He aint gonna have them long if a tire flicks up a stick........... them I thought well if its desert country or well made gravel roads it unlikely. Beats finding somewhere in the back or on the roof I suppose.
Cheers Scott

I think I'd balance the hundred-thousand-to-one chance of the window-breaking scenario against all that lovely coooooooool air.......

I would have done this a few years ago, in the middle of the rebuild (actually have some plans on my noticeboard at work!), but the doortops I found for the rebuild were so nice that I couldn't bring myself to cut into them.

I still want to look at it one day. Just seeing that Landy in that photo in Bots reminds me of exactly how I pictured the whole thing working.

It is great to simply take the door tops off - but how good would it be to have the best of both worlds????

John

P.S. My subscription runs out tonight. I may be silent here until I sort out how to pay it......