Defender nut and bolt rebuild

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Bonnet on and air feed pipe cleaned
 

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Collected the re cored radiator yesterday and what a great job ! Thanks Kris at North Wales Radiators I can highly recommend!
 

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Got her running ! But she’s hot ! Very hot! some basic fault finding and its the bloody new £10 thermostat that’s knackered….. grrrr
 
We what can I say… the maiden voyage was like something from Mad Max … deck chair cushions as a seat, some thrown together bracketry to hold the expansion bottle, cable tied fuel filter and were away down the road ! Wind in my hair, anti freeze in my eyes and lungs full of diesel fumes oh what a ride !
 

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Changed the theromstat for one that worked and the guage was still showing off the scale ??? Put a multimeter on the temp sensor and it reading 115ohm which in defender speak should be lava…. Some more googling and yes you guessed it I’ve only gone and frigging fitted a green Discovery temp sensor !
This does harken back to the same problem that I had with the series 3… lesson learnet
 
Hinges back from being blasted and galvanized, t washed ready for some etch primer and paint. Decided to drill and install a grease nipple on the inside of the door hinges along with a small groove in the hinge body
 

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Door hinges paint dried I spent the evening aligning the front doors, driver side went on perfectly but the passenger one was another story… after some gentle bulk head adjustment with a ratchet strap and rear tub lifting with a 4x2 were there !
 

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Wasn’t that one of the reasons they became so expensive to make. Computermibobs couldn’t build one. Maybe AI will allow robots to swear and throw things. That helps. 😁
 
Todays fetteling consisted of fitting the seat box, handbrake and drivers floor. Passenger floor to follow once the cable grommets arrive for the battery cables. Decided to cover all the floor and doors in sound deadening, what a difference its made to the doors ! They dont sound likes some sardine tins anymore. Going to do the same to the roof and rear tub, before I carpet the rear and put the head lining in. May do the rear side panels with some black
 

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Door check strap brackets cleaned painted and adorned with some shiny new arms and clevis pins.
 

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