Thread: What did you do on your Landy today?

Repainted the black bonnet on my RRC. I first did it a couple of years ago and it was badly faded again. Now I have to find out how to clean overspray off my windscreen .

Originally Posted by BigJon

Repainted the black bonnet on my RRC. I first did it a couple of years ago and it was badly faded again. Now I have to find out how to clean overspray off my windscreen .

Maybe Prepsol or steel wool and dishwashing detergent.
But only steel wool, not a nylon scouring pad as they will mark glass or chrome, whereas steel wool will not!
Try it in a corner first!


Cheers, Mick.

NOTHING !!




But two days ago I dug the sealant out from the top corners of the windscreen frame, where it joins the roof and re-sealed it. I also filled a few long gaps that had openned up where what I shall laughingly refer to as a gutter across the top of the windscreen joins to the roof panel, let's see if that keeps the rain out !!

Originally Posted by wrinklearthur

Underneath the cog of the oil pump in it's alloy housing was a couple of scores, deep enough to be the cause of my problems with the motor not picking up it's oil.

Changed the housing, replacing both the front crankshaft and camshaft seal's and then being the next thing to put back, I looked at the front timing case cover with the integral fan hub bearing and it's hub. Guess what! the hub flange has a piece broken out of one of it's threaded bolt hole's and with not enough thread left to hold the bolt, one of the four that fastens the pulley to the hub's flange.

Having brought a couple of new fan hubs, a while ago from maxi drive, I set forth to swap out the damaged hub and install one of the new spares.

Spent a whole afternoon making a really schmick puller out of a threaded portion of a old viscous fan coupling, when screwed onto the threaded boss for the viscous hub, it worked well enough to move the hub partly up the shaft and then all the threaded boss broke off the hub.

now continued!

Well ! that broken thread was a set back to my one off puller. So off up to the brothers place, to borrow the Sykes-Pickavant hydraulic puller set.
Arrived back home after a couple of hours, with the puller, set it up to do the job and ----?!?! It didn't work, the internals of the puller had given up!

So I did next is what I should have done in the first place, drilled a series of small holes from near the bearing shaft to the outside edge of the hub.
A couple of quick whacks with a cold chisel and hammer, cracked the hub through the flange and off it came with my fingers, I didn't need to do all that work! Why?

Having a spare timing case cover, I again did what I should have done in the first place and fitted that, instead of trying to repair the first one.

Now another test of Fred's motor the third. It started up quickly and yes! the oil pressure came up instantly, success, time to install the renovated Fred motor the third.

Fred is now a unit, an entity, with the Fred motor in the engine bay, now it's the tedious job of installing everything else, like wiring and all the plumbing.

I puzzle over the direction that the wiring loom takes from engine bay fuse box to the side of the motor, to refit it so that the wires at the end of the loom can still reach the alternator. The loom needs the injector pump rear bracket removing, so to make it sit nicely between the injector pump and the engine block.

To clean Fred engine's aluminium so clean that it then sparkles , I experimented with all sorts of cleaning methods.
What works. A cup full of laundry powder, 20 litre's hot water and a scrubbing brush. finished with a squirt of throttle body cleaner, wiping down by cloth made from some old bath towel.
Did I do the right thing by spray painting the bare aluminium silver, what will the rivet counters think ?

That was yesterday, today little job, is a fit up of the wire brushed and clear painted oil cooler lines, I hope I have enough o'rings left.
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Put the fuel return line back on when it split where it pushes on while at the shopping centre car park, spill kit, what spill kit

Today: Visited my IIa, then replaced the radius arm chassis bushes on my One Ten. Also bought 40 litres of engine oil at 25% off
Tomorrow: LROCS trip to Sunny Corner

Fitted the GOE front bash plate to the D3, straightened a couple of 'bent bits' while I was under there.

Mounted my fridge slide in the back of my D2a, which is the start of my rear storage unit project. Am happy with it so far. Am going camping for the next few days so will get to try it out.