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Re: Land Rover Rustorashun and other shit
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 3:44 pm
by Hooli
Work stuff looks impressive as always.
Re: Land Rover Rustorashun and other shit
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 4:08 pm
by DodgeRover
Best wishes to your dad and thank you for the update.
Re paint fume extraction, don't bother with filters just find and fit the biggest fan you can, otherwise you won't be able to see enough to paint let alone get a finish.
Watering the floor before you start helps with the dust too.
Re: Land Rover Rustorashun and other shit
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 5:36 pm
by brandersnatch
Thanks for the update. Impressive stuff.
Re: Land Rover Rustorashun and other shit
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 6:11 pm
by Scruffy Bodger
Best wishes to your dad and thank you for the update.
Re paint fume extraction, don't bother with filters just find and fit the biggest fan you can, otherwise you won't be able to see enough to paint let alone get a finish.
Watering the floor before you start helps with the dust too.
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WOT he says ^ My mate does commercial vehicle resprays in an old shed. He's just got a great big fan in the wall extracting direct to outside. It's certainly better than nothing. A DA with hoover attached also does a great job of keeping the dust down in the first place. The one he's got now is even bluetooth linked to the hoover, certainly not cheap but a good bit of kit.
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Hope your old man's ok too. Amazing what they can do now heart wise. If they know there's a problem it's surprising what thy can sort out.
Re: Land Rover Rustorashun and other shit
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 7:13 pm
by richardthestag
thanks all folks, dad had a pacemaker fitted today. home again tomorrow.
I fully expect that he will feel like a new man.... fnarr
Re: Land Rover Rustorashun and other shit
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 10:42 am
by richardthestag
LynehamHerc wrote: ↑Tue Jul 27, 2021 2:21 pm
This Steve the Body, is he a relation of Elle?
He has a son who is the same age as my twins and they all went to the same school. My wife crashed her car because she was busy watching steve walking down the road. she admitted it too
Ever since then he has been Steve the Body - he is quite good at fixing the various dents that she creates. good lad and a useful panel and paint chappy
Re: Land Rover Rustorashun and other shit
Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2021 1:38 pm
by DodgeRover
Hi just posted on the closed section
https://thedarkwob.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2651
Your comments world be appreciated thanks
Re: Land Rover Rustorashun and other shit
Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2021 5:27 pm
by richardthestag
Not updated this thread on months, must try fucking harder etc
Soooooooooooo.
Sunday afternoon and I am a few beers down, let me go through what I have been up to.
Drivers door, which is the original but repaired frame and a new land rover skin saw a lick of paint
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which even I was impressed with when the poisonous mist had cleared, even Steve the body asked "you painted this?" it is a bastard of a job though and I am not sure I am cut out for the failures which inevitably happen.
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No more panels to paint
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still needs a 1500grade flat and g3 mop though, which I had started here.
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Front seats went in so that I could fathom out the car controls
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handbrake roughly positioned in place.
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transmission tunnel top cover adapted to take the defender longstick gearstick conversion into account
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it all fits and it all works. Also and somewhat helpfully it can all be reached from the drivers seat
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butterfly plant on the edge of Armageddon was a pleasant surprise.
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next up is to sort a distributor, cust wants electronic I found a tired and functional'ish lucas 35 dlm8
more to come
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Re: Land Rover Rustorashun and other shit
Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2021 5:38 pm
by richardthestag
part 2 tonight
Engine cold start went uneventfully. engine has not been run in best part of 6 years. Car was last MoT'ed in 2005.
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Drove itself out of the workshop, well I say it drove itself I was sat in the driver seat and operating the controls.
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I can confirm that fitting out is the last 10% of the project and takes 90% of the effort..
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still not cut nor polished this paint, this is how I got it to come out of my £38 1.4 hvlp gun. I am pleased with results
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Cust wants refinement so I dynamated the inside of the roof panel
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retrimmed a much newer 1990s headliner to go in, all reversible modifications but cust wanted speaker fitting to the headliner and it would be heresy to do that to an early headliner.
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all seats now fitted, headliner in and messing about with rear speakers
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naturally the heater matrix which test fine on the bench developed a leak. bastard thing
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finally got the heater to behave and refitted it, the dash and the transmission tunnel carpet. they were plastic/vinyl originally but again cust wants creature comfort.
More to come
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Re: Land Rover Rustorashun and other shit
Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2021 5:52 pm
by richardthestag
part 3
The Blue car is coming together fast but not fast enough
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I simply cannot paint a complete car in my workshop quickly whilst I am opposite the recycle chaps.. just too much dust. Anyway steve the body said he would paint dad's 1972 Range rover if I did all the prep and the polish.
took about 6 hours to strip the car of glass, interior and fixings
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outer rear wings had to come off because some twat had glued them into place and the channel that the sidey slidey glass sit onto was rusting
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I dynamat'ed this a few years ago, but to make the repaint process as easy as possible I had removed all the dash and the screen (which was still a 1970s toughened jobby)
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James at the bus company had this beauty in for some work. smokey old diesel but I believe it is the only surviving example of the 2 that were made
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driver side wing had to come off because the fuel filler have bee siliconed into place. the moisture had then become trapped and it had started to rot from the inside out
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This window channel had faired less well from the previous restorers hamfisted gibbonry or silicon gluing stuff on to the body frame
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bottom tailgate had suffered similary in that the whole top section has rotted out. This is covered by a galv strip.
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blocked the whole body back using a 600 grade wet and dry
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and having 2 mins off...
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more to come