Thread: What did you do on your Landy today?

Finely got round to fitting the gull wing doors to my Defender. It took me about six hours to do as I had to strip the lock that holds the NS seat in position and that slowed me down somewhat. Other than that it was very straight forward.
And it looks good I think. Already it's so much easier to get into the rear.

Cheers,

Nino.

Changed the front axle on my IIa.

Tinted windows done. I can't believe 3 places I called hadn't ever done a defender.
Is that normal? Tint a Car in Narre Warren got the job. He was proud of his work.
44degrees I picked it up, parked it out the front and headed inside for a beer.

Busy times over in the shed, I needed to sort an accumulation of goodies and junk from the years of hoarding. At last I have got the back corner of the workshop cleaned out and repaired a set of shelves that had collapsed to boot.

Next thing is to make a rail way to run the heavy item's like engines in to the shed, I have in mind that type of rail that you see in a butchers shop for running the carcases out of the freezer.

But the first job after I pack away about a dozen containers of bolts, screws, etc, into the repaired shelving, is to complete my frame for a trolley system to slide gearboxes into position on the back of the engine with. I needed the work bench clear to weld the frame up so that it is true and that I hadn't seen that surface clean for yonks.
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Originally Posted by Goenin

Tinted windows done. I can't believe 3 places I called hadn't ever done a defender.
Is that normal? Tint a Car in Narre Warren got the job. He was proud of his work.
44degrees I picked it up, parked it out the front and headed inside for a beer.

Can I ask what you paid for said tinting? After this week, I'm thinking of getting mine done. I'm thinking its the first time in my life I've wound up a window that's been down All day, and subsequently burnt my arm on it,,,, ouch

Absolutely nothing, apart from hand out tools and some advice,,,,

Couple of offspring decided to replace (my idea) the Classic's donut/rotoflex coupling.
Turned into a bit of a saga, but over two nights and a trip into one son's work-place with the prop shaft, it's all done and a test-drive shows much reduced vibration at around 100.
Old rubber was full of fine cracks from age, and large deeper one.

FYI, the genuine Rotoflex I'd bought came with the spigot=bearing thing and a full set of 6 bolts. 18mm head and stamped 8.8
Original nuts and bolts are 19mm and stamped 10.8 They went back in, at least for the fact that 19mm spanners are more common than 18mm

Setting up the kids to 'volunteer' them for the transfer-case replacement

Originally Posted by superquag

------ Setting up the kids to 'volunteer' them for the transfer-case replacement

Do you have a pit or hoist that you work under the Rangie with?

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No you use the kids as cushioning for the tfr to land on.