110 CSW tub rebuild

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Al2O3 said:
Sounds like you've found a good Mrs there, mate. Hold on to that one :) My Mrs is a great help anorl.
Have you not pop riveted the pads in place?
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Yeah I have. She’s the best.

Yes they are riveted on, you can see the shiney rivets on one of the black support pieces, if you zoom in on the photo from the rear, of the tub fitted. I will drill the rivets and then use double sided tape or stixall to hold them over the chassis rails. I will stick some sealed rivets into the open holes after I have moved the pads.
 
Hats off to you mate for working in those conditions that's real dedication...
Makes me look like a right snowflake for complaining the sun made me give up welding today cause it was to bright and hot..
Project looking good.
 
mick 1986 said:
Yeah I have. She’s the best.

Yes they are riveted on, you can see the shiney rivets on one of the black support pieces, if you zoom in on the photo from the rear, of the tub fitted. I will drill the rivets and then use double sided tape or stixall to hold them over the chassis rails. I will stick some sealed rivets into the open holes after I have moved the pads.
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Aye, I can see them now. It's strange that the seats for the pads are different on your new chassis. :confused:
By the way, my new rear quarter panels were a nightmare. Dimensions out all over the place. Don't think the holes lined up with my rear cross member lugs either.
 
Shippers said:
Hats off to you mate for working in those conditions that's real dedication...
Makes me look like a right snowflake for complaining the sun made me give up welding today cause it was to bright and hot..
Project looking good.
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Yeah, harder than me too. I wrapped mine up over the winter. Two winters in fact. I even tried wearing ski gloves with the finger tips cut off the right hand one, so I could fit fiddly bits. But even with ski gloves on I soon got sick :rolleyes:
 
Al2O3 said:
Aye, I can see them now. It's strange that the seats for the pads are different on your new chassis. :confused:
By the way, my new rear quarter panels were a nightmare. Dimensions out all over the place. Don't think the holes lined up with my rear cross member lugs either.
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Where did you get yours from? Same place as mine? I have a feeling that SP are distributing, and not actually manufacturing them, so shouldn’t really blame them.

I think the seats are different because this is a 2018 chassis, and mine was a 1991. The new chassis has a few mods compared to the original. Extra bracing on outriggers, different fuel tank arrangements, heavier....MUCH MUCH heavier.
 
Al2O3 said:
Yeah, harder than me too. I wrapped mine up over the winter. Two winters in fact. I even tried wearing ski gloves with the finger tips cut off the right hand one, so I could fit fiddly bits. But even with ski gloves on I soon got sick :rolleyes:
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That was her biggest complaint if im honest, cold fingers. I don’t know why, but I don’t seem to get cold at all. I usually wear a military buffalo jacket, and thermal hat, and just work until I’m sick. I sometimes wear some cut resistant gloves, but they offer zero insulation.
 
mick 1986 said:
Where did you get yours from? Same place as mine? I have a feeling that SP are distributing, and not actually manufacturing them, so shouldn’t really blame them.

I think the seats are different because this is a 2018 chassis, and mine was a 1991. The new chassis has a few mods compared to the original. Extra bracing on outriggers, different fuel tank arrangements, heavier....MUCH MUCH heavier.
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Can't remember who I bought them through, but think they came in Britpart boxes. Not 100% sure though.
In this picture you can see the new one, in black primer, stood in front of the old one. You can see how far out the shoulder was, that fitted in to the inner, square wheel arch.
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Talking of gloves I have to wear leather gardening ones here in the summer due to all tools etc getting roasting hot...replaced all front brake parts on 101 in the summer as always put wheel nuts in the front step that bolts to the wheel went in for lunch came out sun shifted 42c in the valley put wheel on studs picked up nut and spent the next hour looking for it with blisters on thumb and forefinger.. gloves lying by tools where I left them...you'd think I'd learn oh no metal gets hot when you weld it you can feel it through gloves but a good red wine tonight has helped...lol.
 
Shippers said:
Talking of gloves I have to wear leather gardening ones here in the summer due to all tools etc getting roasting hot...replaced all front brake parts on 101 in the summer as always put wheel nuts in the front step that bolts to the wheel went in for lunch came out sun shifted 42c in the valley put wheel on studs picked up nut and spent the next hour looking for it with blisters on thumb and forefinger.. gloves lying by tools where I left them...you'd think I'd learn oh no metal gets hot when you weld it you can feel it through gloves but a good red wine tonight has helped...lol.
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You can go off people ;)
 
Al2O3 said:
No it doesn't. Sunstroke isn't funny. :(
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Couldn't get the drum back on kept coming to house for a drink Lucy said leave it till tomorrow when your fresh to sort it but I wanted to wrap the job up and continued with the sun behind me till I finished was a couple of hours later when I felt ill and to be honest got a bit scared won't make the same mistame again..
 
Shippers said:
Couldn't get the drum back on kept coming to house for a drink Lucy said leave it till tomorrow when your fresh to sort it but I wanted to wrap the job up and continued with the sun behind me till I finished was a couple of hours later when I felt ill and to be honest got a bit scared won't make the same mistame again..
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It's a bit like seasickness, you just pray it'll go away. :(
 
Al2O3 said:
Nightmare. Only had it once. Believe it or not, I was in Scotland! Kippford, in Dumfries and Galloway. You're out all day when you are camping :rolleyes:
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Well there you go were Scottish and Lucy's brother is glamping in some sort of yurk thing in Perthshire tonight doubt he'll get sunstroke maybe frostbite...not for me..
 
Shippers said:
Well there you go were Scottish and Lucy's brother is glamping in some sort of yurk thing in Perthshire tonight doubt he'll get sunstroke maybe frostbite...not for me..
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Don't worry, it's warming up here. Going from severely below to about 6 degrees. He'll be toastie ;)
 
Al2O3 said:
Can't remember who I bought them through, but think they came in Britpart boxes. Not 100% sure though.
In this picture you can see the new one, in black primer, stood in front of the old one. You can see how far out the shoulder was, that fitted in to the inner, square wheel arch.
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At least the ones I purchased were the same basic shape. They weren’t that far out in any dimension, so I feel quite lucky.

When I received them, one was damaged, and the “black primer” just peeled off. The aluminium had no prep work at all. It was still shiny and fresh, no “key” for the primer to stick on. I had to peel it off, prep it, and paint it all myself. It’s done now, so I can’t complain too much.
 
Lads I must admit seeing your posts im jealous and want to build myself a landy lol! Are any of you actually mechanics or just hobbyists with massive balls?
 
Discodevon said:
Lads I must admit seeing your posts im jealous and want to build myself a landy lol! Are any of you actually mechanics or just hobbyists with massive balls?
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I’m a maintenance technician, turned maintenance engineer, by trade. I spent 12 years in the army, REME electronics technician (left the army in 2014), dealing with all manner of vehicles. The defender always made me smile, so when I finally got into a position of being able to choose the exact defender I wanted, I did.

It had rust on the bulkhead, the chassis appeared sound, and it drove well. Fast forward 3 years, 2 holes in the chassis, and huge split in the bulkhead forced me to do one of two things, strip it and rebuild it, or get rid.

I went with the stripping and rebuilding. I have been around mechanics all of my life. My dad was a mechanic for around 10-15 years. He had the old school “Haynes folders” from doing some of NVQ/HNC quals, so at 7-8 I started to read through them. Combine that with helping out on anything car related I could, from servicing relatives cars with dad, to replacing an engine on my grandads ford Orion at 11-12. I sharp learnt, and got a huge bug for repairing things.

Now I look at most things and can work out how it comes to bits, how it should work, how to fix it, and then rebuild it.
 
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