IamRobbie
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You ain't ####ing around this time are ya!
**** you work fast! Just read all 96 pages of your last build (easy day at work) and now this one.
Must have been an easy day at work anorl Must have took a while
Seeing you do all this work outside/in a Wendy house�� is giving me the confidence I need to start my 110, which has only been looked at for the last month. I thought it would be difficult without a big garage to work in but you're making it look easy enough.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't want more room, But at least I'm not getting **** wet through everyday. So just work with what I've got.
One of the annoying things is the lack of height in the their, Meaning I have to leave the roof and back door off (Or it wont fit in) until it's finished and ready for the road.
But I've done a couple now and managed pretty well, If it was that bad I wouldn't be doing another now
I love the idea of my own cummins conversion but I'll stick to a standard build for my first time. Have you considered putting together a conversion package? Supplying a serviced and painted engine and gearbox complete with mounts/transfer adaptor/starter/alternator etc?
The problem with that is their isn't a standardized way of doing it and everyone has their own way of doing things, Plus my way isn't necessarily the best of the bunch out their.
So number plate sticky foam stuff will be ok? Got plenty in work so was hoping that would do
Looking very good looks like a really clean td5 as in gearbox axles etc.
Why is it, when I'm up to my ear lobes in doing this myself, that I find reading about the same thing so fascinating?
Not sure, But I enjoy them too
There are some great rebuild threads on here, but yours always tend to stand out a bit. Your writing style possibly, rate at which you get through it. A Land Rover soap opera
Yes we seem to have lots of rebuild threads going off lately (More than usual) No bad thing mind as I enjoy reading them
Oh and soap opera, Yeah sounds about right for my life
Cheers, Glad you enjoy them
+1 great to follow your builds , hope you're not on an hourly rate ,,,,if so.................. slow down ,,,lol mind you i know how crap "family rate is" great viewing and reading ,,reading your thread is like us doing a rebuild but not having to go in the garage and get cold :rolly:
You ain't ####ing around this time are ya!
Ive started popping in to your threads to make me get off my arse and do a bit on mine. Now ive looked at your last bit of stripping i can go out to my shed and get the steering box off. That and the gbox and tbox should be on a pallet later today and on there way to Engerland for a rebuild
I'm glad someone's doing this to a TD5, because it looks like mine. There are loads of Series, 200TDi, 300TDi etc. rebuilds but they're harder for me to identify with. I'm doing mine in bits and pieces rather than all at once but its good to see something that looks so familiar going through the process. Exactly the same thing had happened to my rear spring retainer on the same side of the car, for example.
Looking nice and shiny with a lick of paint on them. Get plenty of paint on the brackets the springs attach to, because mine were getting very rusty underneath, and we don't want them going all the way through.
Went stainless and premium seals from paddocks aaron
Paints looking good on the suspension. Brings back memorys haha
Once you get the old pistons and seals out it will be possible to tell if they're worth salvaging. If the grooves the seals go on are nice and clean with no rusting or pitting they should be OK. As my pistons had gone rusty I bought stainless ones to try and stop it happening again. They came with a seal kit that was obviously of poor quality so I bought Land Rover Brand ones to fit instead. The push-fit metal ring that holds the outer seal in place can be a bit fiddly to get in but I pressed them in with one of those wind back tools that consists of two paddles that you can wind apart, and it all went together very nicely.
Nice green looks cool 👍
Those clips are just right for those brake lines, used them before to replace plastic tat. In all the time it's taken you to remove/strip/paint/rebuild your axles I have managed to? Remove my front wings and windscreen! I would like to start s build thread like this but progress is sooo slow.
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