Dom's 88" rechassis

Out of interest how much do you think you invested from ordering the chassis to getting a new ticket?

The brakes aren't bad as such just not as good as they could be...they seem to be coming back in so they might just need bedding in.
I don't want to think how much I spent - £1500 for chassis, £200 on fasteners and other bits, £100 on paint, £100 on wiring loom and connectors, £ X,000 on loss of earnings! I could have got another for less but then it would probably be another with a dodgy chassis! It's certainly not an investment but I hope to keep it for a good long while.

that galv'ed chassis should make the car last a long time, may even outlast you, once that and the bulkhead are sound - maybe loom too - you have done the biggest bits, everything else is a small job by comparison, so I would say good investment, you know the truck is solid and as you say you could get another for less but you won't know what the chassis is like inside

Aye, it's a keeper - is a bit inconvenient now we have a nipper but I still get plenty of use out of it. The bulkhead is the next thing - there's a lot of welding needs doing and filler that needs removing but nothing that can't wait. I have a pair of bulkheads ready to take down to the sandblasters and make repairs to.

Seems to be running pretty well and feels solider (that might just be imagination) and rattles less (that might be because I've emptied all the ****e out of the boot!). Only niggle is that the throttle keeps sticking part open I suspect I've got carpet glue on the end of the linkage...

A bit of fettling tonight and a wash. I might put carpet in the boot too. It should deaden the noise a bit and I've got a nice load of carpet that my mate was chucking out...No doubt it will be thick with oil and muck in a week

Off on a trip to Oxford next week so hopefully it will hold together.

Does anyone know what the legality of temporarily removing the rear seats is - it's registered as a 7 seater but I want to take the back seats out for now to refurbish them as the frames need welding up and fixing.

Still not exactly concourse condition but its up and running and will hopefully get me down to Oxford tomorrow. I even removed the "one life" stickers from the back, the side ones are stuck on a bit better

looks fine to me, just like a working truck should.

no point me having a pristine landy I would trash it in no time at all

No problem with seats as long as nobody traveling in them.
They are meant to be removable.

Bravo! Lovely truck - and well-loved as a Landy should be.
10 for 10 on that job.

Alan

Thanks for the encouragement.

Well I made it to Oxford and back with nothing worse than a small oil leak on the front free wheeling hub. I must have remembered to do up all the bolts... not like me at all.

It did remarkably well on petrol too...those 50 mph limits on the M1 aren't all bad...