Thread: JB's 1963 2A Build

Originally Posted by crackers

Looks good mate. With the red soil, you've got a tip on where she's lived.

What are you using as an impact drill?

Have all the details on the history of the car , she's spent her whole life 180km from Burke and it shows!!

Impact drill just using an AEG cordless works great.

Ahh, I've got a good cordless (that's covered in boat building epoxy) with crook batteries. Looks like I've got a reason to get new battery packs.

Some good progress on the weekend. Got the car to the point where I want her to be, next steps I think I will work from one end to the other restoring. Don't think I will take her right back just to the chassis. I think I can work from this point on. Car is coming apart well a lot of red dust but that's a great compromise to the fact there's no rust . She's definately original with 99% of bolts identical complete with all layers of washers on every bolt etc.

Just mechanicals left....

so probably due an update, have been chipping away not at the pace I'd like but getting enough done.
aside a couple of examples, the car is coming apart very easily. No surprises until yesterday when i found a couple of cracks in the front chassis in the radiator mounts, nothing a quick weld wont fix.

rear of the car is dismantled except for the diff and springs, pedal boxes out, radiator and fuel tank have been sent off for refurbish.

I have been thinking and testing a lot on how I am going to restore the car from a process and outcome perspective. I was initially going down the start at the rear take off, fix, restore or replace then put back move to the next section. As of yesterday i have decided to get the chassis and firewall sand blasted, so that means engine and gearbox out finish stripping electrics and some more of the front then i will leave it rolling and send it off. Have found that my elbow is not up to the repetitive grinding process (it was stuffed to start with).

I need to keep the wheels on the car for now, as we are about to undertake some building out the back of the house, so the car needs to be moveable, so based on that this will slow up the process.

When I get it back I will then coat the chassis, firewall, then start at the rear and work through pulling out the diff painting restoring brakes etc then put back in until mechanically the car is restored.

The approach i have decided on is similar to Grey Ghosts, stripping and coating all the nuts and using as much of the original stuff as i can, will just work through each element methodically.

Looks like engine rebuild is on the cards, everyone i have spoken to says i should give it a crack myself, and after getting a rough quote to refurbish this is the obvious option, even though i an very nervous and unsure on putting the thing back together. gearbox feels tight and positive (as much as a landy can) over all so many just need a service.

That's it for this stage will start to take more photos as i go through the parts stripping and rebuilding process, have taken heaps of photos and cataloged for reassemble as well as lots of labeled bags with screws in them!

Cheers
JB

I mentioned working through the process of how I was going to undertake the resto.

Attached is some trials I did. I used the park brake that a member kindly gave me (mine didn't have one) and the horn.

Process has been grind back nuts and bolts to metal, nuts and bolts i am clear coating, then the parts I am etch priming then painting, then reassemble. Based on the results i am getting here this is the approach i am going to take as i am happy with the outcome.

Welcome any further advice.

Cheers
JB

Don't be scared of the engine rebuild - you can always bail out and take it to a workshop but a better option would be to con someone into giving you a hand.

Hey Crackers,

i will definitely need a hand, i can strip the engine no problems its the rebuilding that scares me, particularly around the tolerances and clearances etc etc. if you don't get it right, it can all go wrong.

the other concern i had was if i had to take it somewhere it would be easier to give them the engine whole then they can strip and rebuild rather than a heap of bits, maybe less hassle.

hoping one of the members in Melb has a hankering for a few beers and some engine building!