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That is great! When you find something that is 'broken' then you have made progress; well that's what I tell myself so that I can justify spending more money. :) I remember when I first got my holden going.... very noisy, very smokey, very much poring fuel down the carb (didn't know that the fuel pump was very broken). It's a good feeling when it fires up though!
If you need a new speedo (a land rover one :p) let me know I have a spare laying around out of a 109.
Luckily my fuel pump was one of the few working thing on the Landy lol, speedo wise I shall probably take you up on that as it appears that although things looked ok from the front, the cable actually falls off as soon as I put the dash back in due to the dodge one being significantly longer.
Yea no worries, I'll dig it out tomorrow and let you know how it looks/send some pics.Quote:
Originally Posted by 450Dan
Awesome! Don't suppose it's hiding under a spare unwanted rad? Lol
matter of fact.... I'll get photos of that too.
So, amidst the chaos of explaining to the wife where her mop bucket went and hastily cleaning the oil out of it, I managed to achieve a couple of small tasks on the Landy after de-gunking the engine. Firstly was the repair of one of the two damaged radiators, whilst not an amazing job it no longer leaks, ain't pretty but it works, sadly no picture of that as in my excitement of not getting an early shower when I started her up I forgot that cameras existed.
Job 2 was the bonnet clamp thingy, it had been snapped off at some stage and just needed welding back on, a simple job made slightly more awkward by the "assistance" of my young assistant, who decided that ring spanners make excellent hammers, and that the bonnet really needed a few more dents to give it that authentic look.
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And after!
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This project has been a lot of fun for him as far as I can tell, he gets to run around the driveway waving tools and to pretend he's driving her. I can not wait till we can leave the house without me saying "no lad, that one doesn't work yet" as he always runs to the Landy instead of the wife's car...... Ooooone day....
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Hour or so free yesterday so made an attempt at diagnosing the issue with the brakes, or at least I managed to start with the passenger front. Looks fairly clean in there, but the pedal does not appear to be even remotely connected to the brakes, likely needs bleeding but the bleed nipple appears to be in the most awkward place they could find, right jammed behind the steering arm thing... Why are these things never easy?
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Progress report, after a while of Telstra doing inappropriate things with my net there is not actually a great deal of progress, nothing too visible anyways.
Took a grinder wire brush and sander to the front end in preparation for undercoating, as I made the mistake of starting a little bit on the bulkhead and realised that if I do not coat it then it was time wasted due to rusting... Taking all the paint off is no easy task and I am dreading the back end, as is my tiny overwhelmed palm sander, poor thing was only intended for a little woodwork.
After a bit of duct tape and cling wrap it was time to undercoat! Which I may have made a mess of.., only time will tell but for a first time really doing a paint job I think it went ok...
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Let's just ignore the grey on the tires... Can't be perfect first time.
It's only paint! You can always just start again; sand, prep, paint. I like the idea of cling wrap! I wish I had of seen this yesterday when I was trying to paint some rims w/tyres still on. Would have been easier than inward masking them :(
I wish I had thought of cling wrap too! :D