Thread: new project - 1974 Dutch camper conversion

I did quite a lot of cleaning and assembling this weekend. I put the glass in the door tops and put the rest of the panels back on. With that the exterior is almost done.





Next job is the dashboard wiring and interior cosmetic repairs. I picked up a good replacement dash a while ago and last week got some defender seats from ebay. I plan to retrim these with black vinyl from Exmoor trim so they don't look too out of place.

cheers
Phin

Long time no update, but lots of little things have been moving along: wiring, new seats, seat belts, dash, painting, cleaning, soundproofing, tyres etc etc - takes a lot of time but doesn't look like much has changed. Hoping to go in for roadworthy by the end of the year or very early next.

cheers

I was starting to wonder where you'd got to...

Looking good.

Originally Posted by phin

new seats, seat belts, dash, painting, cleaning, soundproofing, tyres etc etc

Are you going to soundproof in the footwells and over the gearbox tunnel?
I'd be interested to find out where you got the closed cell foam and other materials from, and for how much?

whered you get the rubber mats from? they look good, and functional

Thanks all. I haven't finished the soundproofing but I did install mass loaded vinyl backed with closed cell foam under the transmission tunnel - probably not quite as good but I wanted to keep the bare finish for practicality. The footwell has mass loaded vinyl under the mats and thick brush on body deadener along the front of the footwell. I'll probably add mass loaded vinyl on the inside too. Next soundproofing step is vinyl covered open cell foam on the roof to stop the sound reverberating around the cabin.

I bought the mass loaded vinyl from a place in Footscray. I think they recently changed their name but this is the place:
Mass Loaded Vinyl - Higgins Insulation
Price was quite reasonable as I bought offcuts.

The foam backed vinyl is from megasorber but they no longer stock the line and I bought the last of their cream vinyl. They do stock a lot of mass loaded vinyl products though.

The mats are just generic Britpart ones that I got from the UK - they are not expensive and can be ordered from the usual suspects (LRseries, paddocks etc) but the postage is the killer so probably not worth ordering unless you're getting a lot of other stuff at the same time. I'm not sure if they're available locally though.

cheers

Looking sweet, keep it up

Hello Phin,

You know how I contacted you regarding different vacuum alternatives for the brake booster? Well on my way to my new job I stopped off in Tamworth and stripped down the Series 3 LWB that I had sitting there. It had a 3.6 litre Isuzu diesel engine fitted to it that had deeply scoured piston sleeves. I bought the vehicle sight unseen off eBay, back when I was very, very new to Land Rovers - nay rather gullible. I realised not long ago the best option was to strip the vehicle of its best parts on site and sell the rest. Instead of going through all the cost and trouble of bringing the whole vehicle back to Bundaberg.


Anyway ... during my last visit I lifted the bonnet .... lo and behold what do I see but a complete vacuum system hooked up to the booster via a genuine Hitachi alternator with a vacuum pump .

It turns out it was a good thing I was unemployed earlier this year and could not at the time afford to get the Peugeot/Rover vacuum pump from the UK. Sometimes one can be out in front and not even know it!

It is good to see your project is coming together Phin

Kind Regards
Lionel