discomania
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So how is your landy doing?
Apart from tyres whats on the cards for it next?
Apart from tyres whats on the cards for it next?
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pos
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Generally speaking everything is sound drive train wise (touching wood). It should be getting its footwells welded up next week some time and I'm going to book it in for a waxoyl because I can't get to all the bits that really need protecting (at the back end of the chassis). For the sake of £100 it'll preserve it a bit longer. I could try one of those plant sprayer pump things with a spray nozzle and a long piece of hose with some waxoyl and engine oil mixed together I suppose, but I doubt it would stick very well. I could also probably do with draining and re-filling the axle oils too because I haven't done that since I bought it!
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discomania
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See for £100 you could get yourself an Aldi compressor, or even get one from machine mart for a little more (then its yours for the next job) machine mart also do the guns for £10 and the waxoyle for £5.
The gun comes with a length of tube.
Jetwash the chassis (if you don't have one the garage ones are powerful go there and use that - you might get some funny looks crawling about under your landy) then get under and wirebrush any flakey rusty bits. Grind/sand any bad rust bits right down. Get into all the dodgey areas and scrape out any muck.
Let it dry for a day (if your getting good weather at the moment all the better), then get in there and blast waxoyle all over it, i rekcon for less than £200 you could buy a compressor, about £25 worth of waxoyle and a £10 gun.
So its going to cost you £100 more this time, but next job you will have more tools.
Also I am not so sure these places that do waxoyle are really going to care about your landy rusting, your going to spend a lot more time on it, and your going to bother with all the little bits. If someone gave me £100 to do to there chassis what I did to mine I would laugh.
Right I am off to see CharlesY.
The gun comes with a length of tube.
Jetwash the chassis (if you don't have one the garage ones are powerful go there and use that - you might get some funny looks crawling about under your landy) then get under and wirebrush any flakey rusty bits. Grind/sand any bad rust bits right down. Get into all the dodgey areas and scrape out any muck.
Let it dry for a day (if your getting good weather at the moment all the better), then get in there and blast waxoyle all over it, i rekcon for less than £200 you could buy a compressor, about £25 worth of waxoyle and a £10 gun.
So its going to cost you £100 more this time, but next job you will have more tools.
Also I am not so sure these places that do waxoyle are really going to care about your landy rusting, your going to spend a lot more time on it, and your going to bother with all the little bits. If someone gave me £100 to do to there chassis what I did to mine I would laugh.
Right I am off to see CharlesY.
badadj
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I concur, you'd definitely do a better job than some geezer in a garage.
TLC and plenty of it, worth every penny.
I had mine dinitrol'd a few years back by a local garage cost about £600, not a bad job, but they were'nt as meticolous as I would have been.
Chassis's sound though.
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depends on how much 'beefing up' you do...
Tyres look good, but think of the amount of off road compared to on road you are doing, i had mud tyres and they were just wasted, so ive now got a set of good AT's, they're not bad currently.
Lots of spotlights, a bullbar if you can get one. Im thinking maybe yellow isn't going to help you though?
Ill be interested to hear what tyres you are going for, and what you pay for them too.
Don't buy crossply's either, they will kill you on a slightly damp road.
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The speedo will read slower than actual road speed.
Or more likely read actual road speed seein as most car speedos read 5 mph faster than actual.
On the up side tho you's puttin less miles on the clock
Sorry for the delay some of us got to work anorl.
badadj
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The speedo will read slower than actual road speed.
Or more likely read actual road speed seein as most car speedos read 5 mph faster than actual.
On the up side tho you's puttin less miles on the clock
Sorry for the delay some of us got to work anorl.
Wierd that my speedo says I'm going 5 mph faster than i actually am.
