sup DW'ers
yeah right that is all the 21c bolloxs out of the way. Lets get back to the 20c where I am way more comfortable...
It's been a while and a lot has happened, follow the yootoob channel for more up to date feedback but I would always come back here and entertain you with the non video updates.
https://www.youtube.com/c/ChurchHouseClassicsLimited
Anyway, blue car is with it's new owner and being regularly spotted in and around north east lunnon. Dad's white car arrived back at his home in North Devon tonight with him successfully completing a 200 mile drive.
I have the books full of work until nearly June 2022, which considering I do no marketing and there is only one of me, make me a happy bastard - this is way better than working for a living.
Anyway enough onanism, after paint I still had to fix a couple of issues with the body frame on the 1972 body frame. This is the drivers side window lip under the sidey slidey glass. rotted out because someone went berserk with silicon sealer rather that allowing trapped water to drain away.
I fair few small patches had the lip back to original
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This is the non original electric fan setup that is sitted to my dad's car, I like it! anyone tell me where they come from?
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As dad's car comes close to completion it is time to start on the 1982 Series 3 with a 200 tdi .... I know .... anyway 2 months on and all I can say is death trap! it will be fixed but whoever did the brakes should never be allowed to work on a car again.
Loom had burned out, mainly due to an 8mm metal stud in place of a fuse. the brakes had failed because someone had no idea how to flare a brake pipe. clutch is dead and rear axle is full of metal swarf. Aside from that, body is done, decent Exmoor trim hood and seats, chassis and bulkhead are new galv. nice
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My Pa in law's yamaha keyboard went funny, possibly because he drowned the keyboard in wd40. Anyway, keyboard is here upside down. contact strip under the keyboard had failed under just 4 keys. bought another from a uk supplier and had it working again in 2 hours. Other folk would have binned it and bought a new one from the other side of the planet, delivered here on a vessel that does 1ft to the gallon. nice
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Then I started digging into my dad's Range Rover engine. The carbs and inlet manifold were off for a long overdue rebuild. This gave me access to the camshaft and tappets. The cam was showing signs of aging so I opted (as I nearly always do) to swap it out for a new 3.9 cam and set of OE tappets. Alas when fitting and checking the tappet preload I found that the heads had been at some point skimmed mercilessly and as a result the preload was twice what it should be. guide is 40-60thou. this engine was 125-140thou. the impact was that the valves may not have been closing properly and certainly not quickly enough. head need to come off
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all exhaust valves showed signs of fatigue (i know they always do but these were nasty) I reckon to a fair few mm being skimmed for some reason. The head gaskets fitted were tin, but composite gaskets would build the combustion chamber back up / slightly lower the compression ratio. Checked with realsteel and they agreed.
Valves just needed grinding back in. New composite gaskets and then re check preload... which was fine with a 30thou shim under the rocker pedestal. That brings it back into tolerance.
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Then a trip down to Devon and my dad's home, he is moaning about my treasure in his field. He calls them hulks. probably right though
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This 1980 109 S3 needs a new chassis, mechanically is is spot on. I rebuilt the bulkhead in covid / No.10 party lockdown #1
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These 3 are all early pre 1973 proper Range Rovers.. And a pink series 3 88 rear tub that I sold 2 years ago......
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