No matter what, there will always be bits you've forgotten. I find it easiest to do a big paddocks or craddocks order, then get the individual bits I've missed from eBay. Yes you'll pay slightly more, but don't need to pay the hefty delivery charge, and you'll probably get them quicker too.
I'd recommend getting your head in the parts manual and anything you think you might need, order. Chances are you'll need them at some point, even if not immediately.
Cheers, it has become bedtime reading when the garage is too cold, will try one of the local LR places 1st, massive choice of 3 in N.Ireland lol, no doubt I will forget something, but this is helping
Might be an idea to replace all the exhaust fittings, much easier with the body off.
Col
Thanks, the exhaust is one of the few new things on the truck, it and the petrol tank, but will definitely give them the once over incase it was bodged
I found LR Direct (
https://www.lrdirect.com) to be really quick, efficient and free delivery over £50, but you really need to know the part numbers (although the parts catalogue will solve that one). You get to choose the brand, which means it's easier to avoid Britpart. I had a bit of gripe with Paddock after they stitched me up on their loyalty points, and Craddock just seemed a bit slow.
But you will always find lots of little things you've forgotten to get, so ebay is really useful, too.
Bolts...yes, you'll need lots of those! I'd avoid the 'restoration packs' - they seem too focused on body panels, and usually for a very specific thing, like the seat box. I found it better to just buy the sizes you need from Spalding Fasteners, etc, via ebay. It's sometimes more difficult to know exact sizes you need, but
https://www.lrworkshop.com/ can help, and Craddocks web site is also one of the best at actually specifying the bolt/nut/washer sizes. There are some special sizes that you'll find difficult to source by any method other than their part number, however.
I opted for bright zinc plated fixings in most cases. I avoided stainless as it can cause aluminium to corrode more quickly when in contact with it, and it's generally not as strong as steel, particularly where you need high tensile steel. But I seem to be in the minority, and lots of people seem to like the bling-factor that goes with stainless.
Ok, thats more to think about, thanks specific bolts were melting my head lol, will check out Spalding hadn't thought about stainless, seen a few shear in my time not sure I want to go down that route, on my list to investigate, will have a juke at LRD, been perusing the other 2 but they keep deleting my basket which is annoying, thanks for that
Agree and I would do the clutch as well going by the pic....
Well funny story that ...The day I bought her in Bristol, the clutch release bearing failed, then after he'd fixed that, the clutch failed completely on a hill coming out of bristol, so back into the carpark, and the EX owner and his dad changed the clutch in the car park which was decent of them cause theyd been paid and all, this was 30 minutes after leaving them, so its one of the things that should be ok, its only driven from Bristol, up to Hereford to pick up a stove then thru wales over to Dublin then to sunny (hardly ever) Co. Down, the gearbox on the other hand has the usual jump out of gear issue, but not sure I have the fortitude to attempt it, may have to lean on a few friends
Don't forget the tin of copper anti seize past. You may well be the next bloke to take it apart.
I am lucky to live 13 miles from Craddocks and around 25 from Paddocks so not to much of an issue. Where in NI are you ? We used to have a house in Hollywood County Down.
PS. Steering relay !
copper anti seize hopefully ill be able to get from the motor factors in Ballynahinch along with thread lock, steering relay is not budging so it may be a casualty lol, gonna flip the chassis over and beat the living daylights out of it been hitting it with penetrating fluid everytime im passing it along with a few choice works... so when you coming back for a visit and have you got a large trailer lol, we're down the other end of Co. Down, right on the side of Slieve Croob, near Dromara if that makes any sense
Big thanks everyone for your input, i'm not a mechanic, not even close, I've driven a company car for 30 odd years, last car I worked at was a MK3 escort and a few xr4x4's in '85 ish, but I love Gurty as does my wife surprisingly, must be the Series effect, hopefully with the help of some skilled friends and the the LR community I can do right by her, my other big quandry is colour, she was blue, changed to Hammerite green (current) and recorded as green on the logbook, I like heritage green, but getting done to death atm, still thinking about it.
Cheers Karl and Durty Gurty
