What did you do on your Landy today?

Treated and painted the rusting Disco wheels on the Defender.

Before -

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After -

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That looks awesome!!! Any sort of paint that will d up to the dort and grime that will get on it?

Saved it from theft

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Originally Posted by harry

Saved it from theft

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Does it come with all accessories?

Leaking exhaust manifold gasket, 350 with extractors.

A place 10 kms away had one for $13, all good.

While waiting for the mooring block to cool to do the job I gassed a couple of rabbit burrows,............. just coz.

Had a bit of grief getting the last bolt in the head, but all good and simple in the end.

Then I thought........ time to replace the Bailey channel in the DS door. Have had the new channel hanging up for 3 yrs for this job.

I knew it could be done without removing the window frame (aka Philip A.) but for some %#$@* ing reason the old had been glued in on the exterior side. A one hour job was going to turn into a life changing event ............for the worse.

Luckily I had a spare frame and did the job with that. Turned out I was short changed about 400 mm of Bailey from a certain (not cheap) supplier to do this job, so I just did both sides of the frame. Top can be done easily later.

DL

Fitted up the boost gauge and EGT gauge to the Disco. Took longer than thought, as per usual! :) Seems to work well.
Cheers Scott

This morning I started the 2a, and when I pushed the choke in, the was a strange noise, and the choke stayed closed. The knob could not then be pulled out.

Removing the instrument panel showed that the plastic tube that forms the bit of the outer casing from the panel fixing to the spiral casing had broken in two at the hole for the warning light switch plunger. After considerable thought, I made up a saddle to enable the clamp that holds the switch to hold the two parts of the tube in place - the little pegs each side of the plunger make sure the two halves do not slide out.

The tubing used was from a damaged pitot tube removed from my Auster aeroplane forty years ago.

John

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

The tubing used was from a damaged pitot tube removed from my Auster aeroplane forty years ago.

John

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careful there John. You know what sort of havoc a blocked pitot tube can cause:D

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Originally Posted by johntins

careful there John. You know what sort of havoc a blocked pitot tube can cause:D

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Only too well - I remember making a circuit in the Auster with no airspeed indication* to land and remove the mud-wasp nest. Parked for a day facing into the wind that was strong enough to hold the automatic pitot cover open!

John

*And remember the Auster had no stall indicator - just work by feel of the controls and airspeed!

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

Only too well - I remember making a circuit in the Auster with no airspeed indication* to land and remove the mud-wasp nest. Parked for a day facing into the wind that was strong enough to hold the automatic pitot cover open!

John

*And remember the Auster had no stall indicator - just work by feel of the controls and airspeed!

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It was called "seat of the pants" flying.