Another 90 Rebuild

The carpet just came from a shop called Carpetright. It was only £3.99 per square metre. I asked if they could cut off a 1.25 metre strip from the roll because that's the length of the tub floor . They couldn't because they only cut to the nearest 10cm, so I had to have a 1.3 metre strip. If I was doing it again I would just put the tape on the straight edges of carpet. It was difficult to fit it around the corners. The original carpet just had vinyl tape on only some of the straight edges. I'm hoping the sound proofing works well.

Al2O3 said:

Made canny progress today.
Started sticking the double sided tape down

Cut panels to go along the upstand of the inner wing.

Taped the horizontal surface up.

Marked up and cut out where the seat metalwork would bolt through. Decided to just bolt it through the carper and not try to compress the foam.

A bit of tape on the foam side panel.

Then I stuck the second layer on top. I went for two layers on the side as the original wadding insulation was thick there and there was only the carpet on the top originally.

Did the same on the other wing.
Marked out and cut four holes for the seat belt bolts.

Fitted the carpets in and bolted the seats and back rests down.

Cut two pieces of foam to fit the remaining floor space and taped it up with double sided tape/

Put the two pieces together and they fit perfectly in the back.

At this point I had to decide to either cut the floor carpet to fit under the side carpets or over them. I went for under to avoid a lump!
Just sewed the edging tape along the edge that lies against the centre bulkhead as it will be the only one showing.

You can't see the taped edge on the picture though.
I then fitted the support bars to get the full effect.

That's taken the best part of all day! However, I'm very pleased with the result. It looks brand new in there. I do need to paint the hardboard bases of the seats though! They've been stacked up and so I didn't notice.

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youve made a very nice job of that

Cheers, James.

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Rain has stopped play outside today. I was hoping to get the front brake lines made up and fitted after the front brackets turned up yesterday.
Anyway, when I was fitting the window trim and seats in the back the other day I got the roof lining out of the front room because I thought it might have to go behind the window trim first. It was ok when I took it out two years ago, but it's now suffering from the dreaded lining sag.

That room gets the sun, so the warmth probably hasn't done it any good. It must have been on the way out anyway.
I took the staples out along the top edge thinking I could maybe get some evo-stick in there.

What I found was the thin layer of foam in there was disintegrating. Also, a quick test showed that evo-stick melted it. Hmmm......
While I was thinking about that I decided to glue some sound insulation that had come off the gear box tunnel.

It was the left hand side that had come off. Some time in it's life that bit of insulation got ripped off and so I contemplated patching it with some of the closed cell foam I've got. Did the evo-stick test and it didn't dissolve it!
Cut three layers which turned out to be the same thickness as the original and glues them together.

Then glued it in.

Sorry for all the pictures. It's the rains fault
By this time I'd come to accept the inevitable and that the fabric/vinyl was going to have to come off the roof liner.

It almost fell off under its own weight.
I rubbed the foam with my hand and it came away pretty easily.

Carefully set about rubbing it down with a scrubbing brush.

You have to be careful because whatever that stuff is I reckon you can stretch it easily.

It took longer than I thought it would to do the lot, but there it is, scrubbed and vacuumed. I'll need to get some spray adhesive to put it back on.
Then I started on the solid liner.

You can be more aggressive with the brush on this.
Right, lunch break over so back to scrubbing.

Was just getting close to finishing the solid liner when it dawned on me there was still the roof liner from the front cab!
Got it out and sure enough it was falling apart too.

I didn't bother taking any more scrubbing pictures.
Just the finished hard liners.

It's hard to tell from the pictures, but they are nice and clean and ready to take adhesive. I just need to get some
Still raining so that's it for tonight.

Is that beer on tap in the background?
Any wonder you're finding everything wonky.

Alibro said:

Is that beer on tap in the background?
Any wonder you're finding everything wonky.

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It was! Finished the last keg a few days ago. Time to brew some more.

Al2O3 said:

It was! Finished the last keg a few days ago. Time to brew some more.

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I have brewed a lot of wine over the last few years, mostly from supermarket grape and apple juice but never tried the beer. How does it work out?

Perfect. Been brewing for over 16 yrs. It's just as good, if not better, than real ale at the pub. Easy to brew too.

Al2O3 said:

Perfect. Been brewing for over 16 yrs. It's just as good, if not better, than real ale at the pub. Easy to brew too.

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Cool, must give it a try, I love a nice real ale, what is your fav brew?

I've been brewing for over 16yrs, so these days I use my own recipes and so they don't have names. I just experiment with different grain and hops. Sometimes brew the same recipe, don't know why I haven't named them.

I kinda do the same with the Supermarket fruit juice wine. I must head over to the beer making forums and check them out.

It's dead easy, mate. If you can brew wine you can brew beer. It's much easier using full mash with the grain and hops than using a kit. Far better results too.

I really must give it a try but will prob start with a kit just to get the basics right.
BTW I forgot to mention, Loving the work your doing to the Landy.

You can't learn the basics of brewing with a kit. Very different process and the result from the kit will not inspire you.
Yeah, Landy coming on well.

Al2O3 said:

I've been brewing for over 16yrs, so these days I use my own recipes and so they don't have names. I just experiment with different grain and hops. Sometimes brew the same recipe, don't know why I haven't named them.

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Maybe you should name them after landy engines, and post them here

gse1986 said:

Maybe you should name them after landy engines, and post them here

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Hmmm...... beers named after Landy engines. That's a good idea

I'd appreciate you guys, who've done a lot of brake pipes before, casting your eyes over these. I've made up and fitted the front pipes to the calipers. They look ok to me but before I get carried away and put the fluid in I'd appreciate a look over. I'm a bit concerned about the connections a few pics down.
Driver's side


Passenger side. I did this one first and put the dust shield in to check if it fitted ok.

Can someone check these too please.
This is the flexi hose to solid pipe on caliper connection - seems ok to me.

This is the solid caliper pipe in to the caliper connection - not so sure this is right. Will it squash in to a taper to fit the inside of the caliper?

I've got one more pipe to fit from the kit, but it's too short! This goes from the master down to the valve. I'll have clean it up and use the old pipe.


I've also started making up some sound proofing to stick on the seat box. The seat box geometry is bonkers, but I've sussed the angles now and these are ready to stick on, it's just raining too hard to do it!

They look slightly different shape to how on my 1992, but could be angle.

Have you tried moving the wheels lock to lock to check they don't hit suspension or anything?