h guys has been a while , i put a straight edge over the block and head and it wasnt straight so stripped off the ancils and found another cheap engine

and came with a free gear box which i believe is a series 2 unit ,,,,

i put in a series 3 gearbox condition unknown , and placed the engine in the hole after ****ing around i removed the series 2 clutch so it would actually fit together lol whooops :

i have now welded the engine mounts back in and removed the engine so i can do some repairs to the front spring hangers and bulkhead, and then paint red oxide and chassis black ... stay tuned

also started on a bigger front bumper
which is just a old one welded to the bottom of the military one , will be adding some tread plate and a nato swivel front hitch ,,, started out repairing my cheap front panel i got from a show with a rusted out bottom , i plan to cut out the good top off the white donor front panel to make one good one , i have seen the repair panel but not keen on the price :O tight arse ,,,,


now the disk cutter ha burnt out

This is looking like a great build! Its amazing what can be done on a budget.......I once bought a series 11A as an unfinished project for £170. It had a new chassis and hood. Most of the rest of it was in boxes!! All in it owed me about £700 when finished! Id love to find another!!
Keep posting, mate! Loving your work!

Rich

Good work, keep the updates coming.

hi, so finished the front panel today :

welded together after some weld through primer on the back :


bent the bottom back over welded and trimmed off the excess , and quick tidy up with the flap disk , prime and paint , going to be 50 shades of black this landy :


and its done , will need to drill the 3 mounting holes but will do that when fitting ,,,,,by no means perfect but not going for that ,,,, also got on with a bit of red oxide priming while the sun is out, still have some repairs to do on the dumb irons hense not painted ,,,

also had a look at the engine , which was actually seized , so got some kerosene down the bores and rocked it back and forwards and has freed up fine , not checked the compression yet, but oil did start ****ing out the oil filter housing which is bent !!!!!! ,, luckily i kept the one off the donor engine , which is a different size bowl but the both had the same size element inside so probably not been having filtered oil fir god knows how long ggggggrrrrrr ::



the engine turned over fast on the battery so fingers crossed compression will be good ,,, happy Easter