Thread: new project - 1974 Dutch camper conversion

After a few months of buying parts, I finally made a start on the Land Rover this weekend. Doors, wings and bonnet are off, and from here I'm going to paint the bulkhead front chassis rails and door frames with KBS. Topcoat for the bulkhead will be Marine Blue Vapormatic tractor paint, which is on the way from the UK now. I didn't want something too glossy, as I want to blend the bulkhead in with the existing paintwork.

With the front panels off, it will hopefully be easier to replumb the brake lines - I've obtained all the bits for 6 cylinder front drums and will use a Defender 300TDI pedal tower and master cylinder. This will leave my front drum backing plates spare. I've read that they can be swapped left to right and put on the back make them twin trailing shoe and improve breaking in reverse - any ideas on whether this would reduce braking going forwards?

There are plenty of peugeot 504 diesels lying about...the vac pump is at least rebuildable, too

JC

Originally Posted by justinc

There are plenty of peugeot 504 diesels lying about...the vac pump is at least rebuildable, too

JC

Thanks JC, after looking for quite a while on ebay and trying the local Peugeot wreckers (some of who I know as I also have a Renault 16), I managed to get a NOS rebuildable type one from French ebay for a reasonable price. Now all I need to do is make up a bracket, but this looks like it should be straightforward.

cheers
Phin

Got a bit more done over the long weekend. Front chassis rails and bulkhead ready for KBS rust seal paint hopefully next weekend. I've also done a test fitting of the Peugeot brake vacuum pump. Should be fairly straightforward to get the brackets to work.

Got the KBS rust seal and etch primer done today:

Paint arrived yesterday and seems to be a very good colour match from the small area I tried on the seat box. Will try brushing it on the bulkhead tomorrow.

Put some paint on the bulkhead this morning. The colour match is really good, much better than the photos suggest. The first coat went on really nicely and spread out so much it was hard to tell it had been brushed. I read on a number of sites that the second coat should be brushed on when the first is just touch dry so that the coats bind together properly. I think this was a mistake for me, as the second coat showed up the brush marks much more and sagged in a few places. All in all though, given I'm not looking for a perfect result and want to blend it in to the panels with original paint, I'd say it's an acceptable outcome. Especially given how easy it was to brush on.

cheers
Phin

Surface has flattened out a bit more since the photos I posted earlier: