Thread: One More Sleep......

Ta mate.

You are getting quite a collection there...

Paul
Looks like you have the bug really bad. Will enjoy reading about the restoration on this / these vehicles. Interesting to see the diversity in the vehicles.
Thanks for the posts.
Angus

Originally Posted by AJF

Paul
Looks like you have the bug really bad. Will enjoy reading about the restoration on this / these vehicles. Interesting to see the diversity in the vehicles.
Thanks for the posts.
Angus

Yep got the bug alright, got a mechanic mate coming around tommorow and we are going to attempt to start and run the motors in the 3 project vehicles to see if they are junk or not.

Cheers Paul

Originally Posted by bemm52

Getting stuck into tearing apart my vehicles to see what I've got and what and how I can rebuild while the grass isn't growing also a bit cold for epoxy to set off

Attachment 141239 the red one in the middle is doing my head in not for the mechanical side but what is it and ADR's

To me its a wide light 2a, chassis and bulkhead series2 Attachment 141246 Attachment 141247 Attachment 141248 Attachment 141249removed bulkhead

However rego says 1972 build date is........... this not series 3?Attachment 141250 CALvin doesn't seem to recognise numbers

Want it eventually to sail through rego as a series 2a seatbelts maybe, but I don't want padded dash, demisters ,window washers, steering locks etc.

Am I overthinking all this..........I have a tendency not to be the sharpest knife in the draw comments welcome ..........about the car not the cutlery

Cheers Paul

That chassis number is one assigned by Victorian Police. It will have been assigned because they could not find a number on the chassis, probably, if it is an imported one, because the number was not where they looked. Australian ones have the number on the LH back rear spring hanger. UK ones have the number on the RH chassis inside front wheel arch - other assemblers???

Date was probably a guess, supplied by importer (probably what he was told when he bought it). I'm guessing it was a personal import. Victoria may still have some records on it. It is definitely a late 2a, probably 70-71.

Edit: That should be chassis number, nor rego number - now corrected!

All 3 vehicles run I was most worried about the two Holden conversions but they were great compression test gave red and blue motor 150/160psi per cylinder after things warmed up.

Didn't do any tests on the 2.25 Rover motor but it purred too so I think its a goodie.

Good day all in all

Cheers Paul

Stripping 3 Land Rovers in winter is a test of endurance for me....every time a spanner slips the pain seems more than in summer

Took a bit of a break from spannering and decided to gurney my chassis's the one I thought was abit dodgy turned up trumps, some time in the past PO had bituminised chassis

IMG_7323.jpg IMG_7324.jpg IMG_7329.jpg IMG_7335.jpg coating has to be chiselled off but what's underneath is great

IMG_7333.jpgbefore........IMG_7334.jpgafter

Yes there is rust where bitumen fractured but the majority of chassis is in good nick.....except rear cross member

Looks as if series 3 will be doner chassis and I'll end up with 2,2a's

Cheers Paul

Did a compression test on the 2.25 rover 4 in the series 3 today and this is the result

IMG_3856.jpg this is the reading pretty much for each cylinder so will use this motor in one of the rebuilds

Cheers Paul

It’s looking like you might just have a silk purse under all those sows ears...