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Cheers so far to West Yorkshire's EPIC discovery rebuilder, he knows who he is...
 
Now we cant be having any broken Landys before Friday:eek:!! I have spent ages today looking for that elusive spare and am yet to find one :(!!!
Did buy a jerry can tho so shouldn't run out of juice:D
Shall be crawing about under Dave over the next couple of days to make sure nowts hanging off.....

What size was the spare, I'll help you :D:D
 
Mini Update ....

Tin worm infested cross member removed


The offending article after being attacked with the plasma cutter


New crossmember tacked into place






Cheers so far to West Yorkshire's EPIC discovery rebuilder, he knows who he is...


At least the boot floor will be the right way up now :D:D
 
looks like its been run over inflated.

gonna pick it up en route? :D

:eek::eek:

No she is going to persuade someone to collect it for her on LZ courier service.

We need a spare that is actually on a wheel for the trip :p:p:p

Unless you have a better idea :D:D:D
 
Amazing :D:D

Cant believe its back together already :eek:

it isn't.

still to do-
body mounts
internal welding to floor at base of rear quarters
paint
underseal
floor to refit
diesel tank to put back, inc captive nuts to remanufacture
towbar bracket to refit, inc sorting the sheared chassis bolt
all trim to put back
bumper to refit

maybe this time tomorrow :D

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a good chunk of today was taken up making new hinge pins for the door, & removing the old ones.
and trying to get the door handle to work. (shut the damned thing on a trail fit, then couldn't get it back out)
and fitting the firkin door to its hinges on me own.
 
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Give us a shout if you need anything Neil.

a hand lifting and lining up a rear door this afternoon :rolleyes:

cheers tho, just the usual, owt that's going skip bound :D
zip's body crossmember is now made up of industrial racking.

a bender would be nice, if your throwing one out tho :D
 
Wow you guys have been busy :) maybe a silly question but wat tyres are people using this weekend. I'm on cooper stt but debating on puting my Insa turbos on?? Any advice much appreciated :) cheers
 
a hand lifting and lining up a rear door this afternoon :rolleyes:

cheers tho, just the usual, owt that's going skip bound :D
zip's body crossmember is now made up of industrial racking.

a bender would be nice, if your throwing one out tho :D

If you need another pair of hands tomorrow or Thursday arvo let me know - happy to come down and help. Jean has the Disco today doing the shopping otherwise would offer for this afternoon :-(
 
Wow you guys have been busy :) maybe a silly question but wat tyres are people using this weekend. I'm on cooper stt but debating on puting my Insa turbos on?? Any advice much appreciated :) cheers
mine just has AT tyres on Zip has mud not sure about everyone else. It will be mainly rock not mud though
 
I run Insa Turbo Saharas - but any form of AT tyre will be fine for the trip. We generally avoid lanes which need any more than an AT
 

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