top drive
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Ok bout time i got on this since its been off the road for a year now.Maybe a thread will inspire me to keep at it when i need inspiration.
I work sproradically on it due to work commitments taking me abroad but finally ive got my own house with a garage and drive where i can work on it and not worry about the land lord moaning about a land rover in bits on the drive
In better times where it spent its time doing all the winter driving , delivering oil , coal and shopping to me and the neighbours ( and towing out the odd car that dared come in ) taking me skiing to the lecht and cairn gorm , and picking up german hitch hikers.
The first photo i posted on here , the last owners mot bodge im sure it made folk laugh then , i still laugh.
Thats what i found in the holes in the bulkhead and some newspaper. Ive since replaced one door pillar and patched the other, the other i intend to replace now along with the footwell and top corner and outriggers.
Dug it out from the back garden today which involved bleeding the clutch , moving the disco into the back garden ( snapped the alternator belt though when starting so not running great) hosed it off before setting about ripping it apart.
thatll be why i need new outriggers then , as you can see they appear to have been patched in the past, the front welds appear much better than those i guess they didnt take the floor out when they did it , the front sides also been painted that clearly hasnt.
Spot of fab work needed to get my accelerator to fit on.....
Eventually the plan is to shoe horn this engine in from a rotten disco one i aquired from a mates garden.
Needs new tub cappings ( already got a full set of galvanised ones) and rear crossmember, new shocks and springs and bushes and then an mot
Doors need the bottoms doing as i did the drivers one and found 2 x 2 in there and some of the welds redoing - the rear esp as it carried the spare.
I work sproradically on it due to work commitments taking me abroad but finally ive got my own house with a garage and drive where i can work on it and not worry about the land lord moaning about a land rover in bits on the drive
In better times where it spent its time doing all the winter driving , delivering oil , coal and shopping to me and the neighbours ( and towing out the odd car that dared come in ) taking me skiing to the lecht and cairn gorm , and picking up german hitch hikers.
The first photo i posted on here , the last owners mot bodge im sure it made folk laugh then , i still laugh.
Thats what i found in the holes in the bulkhead and some newspaper. Ive since replaced one door pillar and patched the other, the other i intend to replace now along with the footwell and top corner and outriggers.
Dug it out from the back garden today which involved bleeding the clutch , moving the disco into the back garden ( snapped the alternator belt though when starting so not running great) hosed it off before setting about ripping it apart.
thatll be why i need new outriggers then , as you can see they appear to have been patched in the past, the front welds appear much better than those i guess they didnt take the floor out when they did it , the front sides also been painted that clearly hasnt.
Spot of fab work needed to get my accelerator to fit on.....
Eventually the plan is to shoe horn this engine in from a rotten disco one i aquired from a mates garden.
Needs new tub cappings ( already got a full set of galvanised ones) and rear crossmember, new shocks and springs and bushes and then an mot
Doors need the bottoms doing as i did the drivers one and found 2 x 2 in there and some of the welds redoing - the rear esp as it carried the spare.
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