Thread: Rebuilding Sid

Another raid on the Repco clearance bin....

For $30 you can do this in 15 minutes



Mind you, take care not to get carried away with the effectiveness of said new toy. When you are sitting back proudly admiring how easy all the bolts were to remove, remember there needs to be something supporting the axle other than the rust.

Steering relay is putting up a fight. Body is actually broken, plan is to disassemble in place and the. Break rest of body out. but can’t shift the shaft, beating crap out of it and it’s stuck. Filled it full of penetrating oil and left it overnight.

Anyone know where i can get a new relay body?

Remember those springs u got and returned? It turns out they are heavy duty front springs. I have fitted the ones that i got, to my stage one isuzu, and its sitting very nicely indeed. The stage one with isuzu is very heavy in front. The isuzu is heavier than the 3.5 V8 in the V8 stage one's. Im really impressed and glad u posted about them. The bushes were a little easy to fit. Hoping they will be tight enough to stay put. Cheers

That’s great news.

I won....!!!!!!!



Now I need a new one, even the bits inside are knackered.

Bit nervy getting it apart. I had been bashing the shaft with a lump hammer getting nowhere. Bought some penetrating fluid (WD branded stuff I haven’t tried before) and it was brilliant stuff....actually worked which is something I haven’t experienced before with penetrating oil.

Anyhow, soaked it for an hour and bashed the top end of shaft and it went down through the relay, but nothing went ‘twang’. So I peeked inside the bag I’d tied around the chassis and there is the shaft, spring and bushes all stuck together hanging neatly from the bottom of the relay. Replaced bag and a few moments later there was a loud noise.

Relay was so rusty inside the bushes has rusted on the shaft and held everything together.

Relay is our but inside of chassis housing is cactus.

I’ve got another relay in the other Land Rover, I just can’t decide if I have the energy to even try.

Busy evenings this week



Rebuilt prop shafts and pedal boxes. New bushes and UJ’s and all nice and shiny in satin black.

Then there was the pain the rear job the steering box.

It started so well, all painted, bead blasted, and ready to assemble. New rebuild kit and the first hour or so was enjoyable.... by the end I am about ready to club a certain British car parts manufacturer with the greasy end of a half built steering box.

Three sets of ball races have been purchased before a set arrived that were cut shallow enough that I could get rid of any end float. There was about 0.5m difference in the ball race depth.

Finally third set worked, able to shim the box up correctly and. Remove end float.

It is beyond me how much variation there is in their parts, so much that I have a increasing pile of ‘new’ unusable parts in little blue boxes.

Anyway... it looks good now it’s finished.

Today’s challenge.

Um, don’t want to burst your bubble, but it doesn’t go there... 😆😁

Looking to do a side drive conversion???🤣🤣🤣🤣