Well f**k you and your F***king sun! I had to don my shooting waders and waterproof in order to work on mine today
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Was bloody nasty this morning here was working under a gazebo then the sun came out just after midday
Its been raining all day but sunny tomorrow apparently!
Need to sort out my revving issue, sounds better on idle though
Chassis looks great, were you not tempted to do the diff whilst the tub was off tho?
Righty then
Brakes bled but still spongy.... Think i may order a new master cylinder for the brakes.
Then possibly new brake cylinders for the front as one bleed nipple is seized solid.
While I'm at it may aswell replace all the flexi's as they look ancient along with a new set of shoes.
Once i got ****ed off with the brakes i went on to cutting out the rotted passenger footwell.
Bleeding series brakes can a bit iffy unless you have the wheel cylinder pistons pushed fully home when they are being bled OR you use a proper compressor fed air bleeder (not one off a hand pump or tyre). The design of the cylinders is a bit sh!t as they leave a gap which traps air and won't bleed out unless you close the gap (push pistons in) or have a decent amount of pressure to suck the air out of the gap (vac bleeder). You can either use a G-clamp to squeeze both pistons in or a ratchet strap on the shoes (if they are on). I have a Draper vac bleeder which runs off my compressor. Its really easy to bleed brakes with it and I recommend one if you have an air line.
Oh yeah, don't buy rubbish brake parts, the seals will go. Get the best you can afford and don't forget to order spare brake lines as they do like to seize and can only be removed via the power of hacksawing them to death.
Finally a small update for anyone who's interested
The weather hasn't really been great since i managed to get the chassis painted under the seatbox. So my plan to get the entire chassis painted failed
Although i do have some good news. My retrimmed dash has started to go back in almost finishedjust got a few bits here and there to sort out and its done
Another thing i decided to do whilst i had the seatbox and floors out was give it a lick of paint as well
Looks much better imo.
Only problem I've found now since the heavy rain is my door seals are completely shot! So hopefully will be replacing these with defender items very soon.
Also i haven't forgotten about the brakes I'm waiting for some g clamps to turn up as i don't own any so will update the brake situ ation very soon
be aware when changing to defender door seals you have to cut the little lip off around the tub,truck cab and roof in order to do it
I think its a bit of challenge to stop all rain getting into a series. Mine had bungees attached to the doortops across to the corresponding sunvisor to pull them in when shut. It did help quite a bit but was super Heath Robinson.
I put up with a bit of rain on the drivers floor as it had no carpet and just rubber mats.
Looking good. See you have a hand throttle too, useful to prevent stalling at lights!
be aware when changing to defender door seals you have to cut the little lip off around the tub,truck cab and roof in order to do it