Thread: What work did you do on your Series Land Rover last weekend

1. Fitted period VDO voltmeter in the centre dash.
2. Reconditioned speedometer to replace on having issues.
3. Fitted rebuilt speedometer.
4. Replaced indicator stalk.
5. Removed crappy horn button from hard to find spot on dash and wired to new indicator stalk.
6. Fitted gas gauge and switch from new LPG installation on dash.
7.Wired up dash power sockets with fuse so my inspection lamp will work.
8. Started designing LPG switch to match all original switches.
9. Disabled windscreen washer power.

That was my lazy Sunday afternoon.

Heck! that 'lazy Sunday arvo' must have started at 4am and finished at 9pm to do all that. Very industrious and well done ol' chap.
Harry jnr

Last week, Friday.

I removed the nose and radiator from my ex-SADF SIIb and took it into the radiator repairer. 80% blocked, and 3 row core porous and not holding pressure. New 4 row copper core being fitted as we speak.

Then on the weekend.

I removed a civvy tub from a SIII lightweight and fitted a LWT tub from a donor, fitted 2 lwt tanks and lwt seatbox.

Now I only need another 300 years and I can finish off all my projects.

Diana

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Last week, Friday.

I removed the nose and radiator from my ex-SADF SIIb and took it into the radiator repairer. 80% blocked, and 3 row core porous and not holding pressure. New 4 row copper core being fitted as we speak.

Then on the weekend.

I removed a civvy tub from a SIII lightweight and fitted a LWT tub from a donor, fitted 2 lwt tanks and lwt seatbox.

Now I only need another 300 years and I can finish off all my projects.

Diana

One at a time might be worth considering

No that's no good .............................. you need to keep your mind active.

Originally Posted by Xtreme

One at a time might be worth considering

No that's no good .............................. you need to keep your mind active.

The LWT belongs to a friend, so it was a bit of a ring in work on: "your classic series Land Rover".

Originally Posted by harryj

Heck! that 'lazy Sunday arvo' must have started at 4am and finished at 9pm to do all that. Very industrious and well done ol' chap.
Harry jnr

Nope, started about 11am after a lazy Sunday morning (need my coffee) and packed up around 6.30pm when it was too dark to see and my mouth was getting tired of holding the torch.

More to do this weekend, probably dash out again to finish then maybe start work cleaning up and painting the front bumper and scrub bar.

Drove it out from its hidey hole under a hedge

Swept out the spider webs

Searched and found why the panel lights in the 'auxillary' dash weren't working

Repaired

Reversed it back under the hedge!

On my ex-SADF radio relay body SIIb/SIII 1 Ton f/c

• Cut off a modesty skirt from the rear cross member.
• Removed the main fuel tank to find that the fuel level problem was a siezed float arm.
• Removed rear tail lamp assemblies from rear cross members.
• Test fitted a combination Pintle jaw/tow bar receiver.
• Disassembled the front body panels to prepare for painting.
• Re-attached check straps.
• Treated a number of surface rust areas with "rust remover" (phosphoric acid).
• Applied galmet to previously treated areas of surface rust on door frame welds.
• Test fitted military headlamp frames, only to find the headlamp buckets have been changed to alternate standard (but realised that the old buckets on my Mk3 Inter are the correct type. )
• Applied NATO green enamel to outer footwell, only to find the match isn't as close as I had hoped.
• May now re-paint the vehicle in SADF tan instead on NATO green? (I think SADF tan may be "Antelope" BS-4800-08B21).

On Sunday, I helped a friend move to his new house: 2 X 1595cc IOE engines, 3 X series transmissions/transfer cases, 5 X series 1 front and rear axle assemblies, bumber bars, brushguard, hard top and about 80 display cases. The display cases being the only non Series Land Rover items.

Is that sufficient?
Diana