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uk sourced, uk manufactured fuel pump kit worked a treat. awesome
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here is the RAL gauge against body and a spatula dipped into a well stirred product. He now match
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Landy start up, initially fabulous. drove 20 yards and conked. Beer consumption found ignition failures
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this is how far it got
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here are the gurls, dairy jobbies. just up the road on our daily exercise
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stripped down and cleaned a seriously derelict carb set - Strom 175 CD
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carb body cleaned up in the primative ultrasonic tank that I have here
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Aegean Blue - 1994 Range Rover vibration through the drive train was found to be a proper fucked UJ, check out the rusty shite
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other end of the front prop was stripped down and rebuilt with new GKN UJ rebuilt kit
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Part 2 to follow shortly
Re: Land Rover Rustorashun
Posted: Sun May 10, 2020 8:29 pm
by richardthestag
part 2
bored with boredom, opted to pull bobtail from the barn using fatha thestags a-suffix Rangie.
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And here is is, poor bastard
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toughened rather than laminated windscreen had this wee bit of history
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stripdown in progress
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as part of dash strip down look, just look at the instrument binnacle! Not one crack nor shattered part to it.
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check out the blue clouds, behind my kungflu beard and hairdo
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rear wings are off, check out the serious lift springs on the back end
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roof orf
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outer sill section - not original - was held in place with pop rivets
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front passenger footwell was largely made from sheet galv steel pop riveted
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part 3 cuming
Re: Land Rover Rustorashun
Posted: Sun May 10, 2020 8:48 pm
by Hooli
I like well done Bobtails, they look just right. It's rare to see a well done one though, it's normally all rivets like that one.
Re: Land Rover Rustorashun
Posted: Sun May 10, 2020 10:27 pm
by richardthestag
part 3
The teardown carries on, now I need to get the sideframes separated, breaking welds n stuff
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Dad n' I rang the bells on 8th May, the community is spread out. Church Bells spread a long way
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Passenger side frame was removed with minimal effort from mr angle grinder. lots of pop rivetted repair panels
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drivers side frame was more effort as repair patches had been welded
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ok so the rear arches and all that framework is non standard. but Tractor!!!
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VE75 bondfire has been lt
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4 minutes later and I cannot get within 10 ft of it! Good effort
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Egine is running on Sandy the Landie. Fuel tank leaks so slave lawn mover tank was installed. replaced all ignition bits with those supplied by DistributorDoctor. highly recommended
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Engine and running gear is are all a beautiful
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might want to keep this one
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more next week.
Stay Safe, if you want want this..
Re: Land Rover Rustorashun
Posted: Mon May 11, 2020 12:46 am
by captain_70s
See this?
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This is the face behind your mega money Range Rover resto.
Love the videos, keep 'em coming chap!
Re: Land Rover Rustorashun
Posted: Mon May 11, 2020 7:29 pm
by Tam
captain_70s wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 12:46 am
See this?
profeshinul.JPG
This is the face behind your mega money Range Rover resto.
Love the videos, keep 'em coming chap!
Must admit I seen 1hr33m and thought no way but 1hrs 32minutes later was still watching