Land Rover Rustorashun and other shit

[richardthestag]

part 3 - was going to say trois but then les froggies are behaving like cunts at the mo, shame they were not so protective of their borders in 1940 eh

Don't tell em yer name Pike!

Anyway

Start of a near 200 mile relocation

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and upon arrival, good lord that was a long trip! didn't help that the trailer had a monster vibration that shook my chassis at 61mph, did it unladen also. So it was truck bothering or filling loosening

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and rolled into the workshop, home for the next 3 months

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My chum moaned like hell that it was lucky that I didn't get pulled by the rozzers for nose weight. I took this piccy of my car still laden with half a ton of crap in the boot tbh I was probably a bit lucky I didn't get a tug as I reckon rear axle load was close to the limit

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heater matrix responded well to 500ml of full phat cola and then 45 mins of me flushing and back flushing. This is good news because shit reproductions blow and fill the car with steam.

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fucking supplier and carrier issues delayed me so much during December, I have no idea why they furlow staff and then moan that they are too busy to deal with my enquiry as to where my fucking stuff is! It is all like "yay! free money" stupid cunts.

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Next issue I found with the bloody VM LHD conversion is that the pas and alternator go in different places on RHD car as they do on LHD. Found a chap advertising a VM complete on ebay and persuaded him to sell me the brackets I needed for 1/4 the price of the whole lump. I really didn't need another boat anchor oil burning 4 headed monster in the workshed

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new pas pump bracket fits in place now, moves forward a step. Should have stuck a V8 in, would have saved me days on this conversion

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brake master back where is should be started making up the new rigid brake pipes

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epoxy 4-2-1 paint on the floor, nice stuff, loom back in place! still to test

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Part 4 coming up

[Hooli]

I do enjoy seeing this work in proper cars.

[richardthestag]

fart 4

Farts are funny

Old vs new, I love how it is even cast into the disc 22mm minimum! Old was just over 15mm. bother front calipers were very clean except for the pistons. Sent off to BiggRed for refurb

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Old turbo came back refurbed from Mildands Turbo. very nice job too. The turbo has KKK cast into it but is apparently a Borg Warner unit the woke are shitting themselves with horrors

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#2 sons car failed mot on a couple of odds and sods

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the tester was a bit sniffy about a 2002 polo but didn't spot the broken spring.

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moved stuff about the workshop as the Polo needs to go and a stag is coming in but then got delayed because the owner is Covidz positive.

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settled myself down by rebuilding the heater unit around a new motor and a refurbed matrix

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Pretty much up to date

Happy Christmas you lot

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[paulplom]

Brilliant although that picture of the pint of gin has made me very thirsty indeed and it's only 6am ffs.

[cros]

I bought this from a caravan site in Suffolk. It was on a playground for the kids, like the tractors you still sometimes get, but with more opportunity for injury. It was comprehensively fucked, though no more than most you see on ebay. The front brakes had been completely removed leading me to suspect it had ended its days as a shunter on the site. It cost £400 in the mid '90s and is a very early long wheel base. The chassis was unique to that year (or so) as it was altered considerably when the 107 station wagon came along.
Along with fixing it up I put a nearly new transit 2.5 di in and a lot of soundproofing. At first it had a homemade dropside body then I built the simple box body as i was fed up with everything getting wet. The load floor was kept low by setting the body directly on the chassis rails and the vehicle gave 8 years of daily work use, covering many trouble free miles.
I regrettably sold it and the new owner also used it for his business until another 8 years further on I saw it for sale again. Apparently it was still working but no longer big enough for his classic car panel firm.

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[panhard65]

Series 2 rear axle on it so probably a right mixture of chassis parts

[cros]

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Found some more photos. Interior was a mixture from whatever I had kicking around. Looks cosy.

[cros]

Series 2 rear axle on it so probably a right mixture of chassis parts

I put that axle on and was glad of it. MOTs were always done with the Tapley and I was once foolish enough to take it fully laden. A pass on the footbrake and a broken halfshaft when the examiner pulled the handbrake on at about 25mph. Happily the meter recorded a pass before the bang, and I drove home with the yellow lever down. It was a relief that the break was not at the diff end so it only took a few minutes to change.

[panhard65]

I had a 107 about 30 years ago and snapped a rear halfshaft at the diff end which is a nightmare I will never forget. The halfshafts on a series 1 are an absolute bastard and nearly got me arrested when I borrowed a press that used to sit outside a friends workshop. Bastard wheel bearing still wouldnt come off and that was when I found out the retaining sleeve is a collar you heat to cherry red to fit and just chop off. I never want to do another one of those.

[cros]

I had a 107 about 30 years ago and snapped a rear halfshaft at the diff end which is a nightmare I will never forget. The halfshafts on a series 1 are an absolute bastard and nearly got me arrested when I borrowed a press that used to sit outside a friends workshop. Bastard wheel bearing still wouldnt come off and that was when I found out the retaining sleeve is a collar you heat to cherry red to fit and just chop off. I never want to do another one of those.

I always avoided touching those things too but had to bite the bullet with my P4s. I renewed the bearings on both as a precaution to save doing it under duress in the future.
Instead of putting the wrong width axle on my current series 1 I used the later fully floating hub and halfshafts with a spacer. Hopefully it might offend someone.