I’ve been having great fun aligning the roof, side panels, ‘b’ posts and windscreen today 🤬. Had to resort to some tweaking with ratchet straps to get the bulkhead into a better position. Also had to do the same with the ‘b’ posts. I’ll tighten...

I've heard about using grease. Seems a good thing. I like hylomar as well but I have a feeling it's not best on the carb.

I make myself more work by wanting to fix everything. I should go route of least resistance and get a new one. I could then keep the old one and faff about with it to my hearts content later on after the landy is back on the road.

Well, if the worst came to the worst you could treat a "new" one as a spares kit for the original so it retained its authentic patina of aging?

It's a thought isn't it? I just keep reading about people getting those and then never being able to get them running right. I'll see how many problems I get putting the old one back together and how fed up of it I get. Thanks for the advice Dan.

I would spring for a new unit myself. I think the price is reasonable (but that's just me). <£100 to get something where the components are not mismatched might be a good buy. I paid more than this for my SU carb rebuild kit.

Stornoway grey is nice too ...

One of the many things in life that annoys me is rubbish quality gaskets. Here's the original for this doohickey on top of the carb. Then here's one of the ones they sent with the refurb kit (both were as bad as each other) It doesn't even...

Carburettor. What do you do? Best option, send to a specialist and give it the works. Can't really afford it. Change to a Weber. I stupidly want to keep the original one. Buy a Chinese replacement. I hear they can be lots of trouble. I'm going to...

Latest dash bits. Still got a bit of fettling and shaping to do before covering in vinyl but definitely coming on. I can't think of a way to replicate the indented oval shape over those three spare gauge holes so will have to live without it...

Thought I would take the opportunity to use my son to give me a hand to lift the roof for a trial fit. Not too bad a fit but will definitely need some jiggling around to get a better fit!

Followed the same process as the other side to clean, paint, seal and install the window channel. It was a bit more challenging but i got there. Need to go and buy another rivet gun now!

I gave the two stainless rails a polish to get rid of some rusty marks to make them a bit better looking. Although I am surprised that they are still good after all these years. After cleaning them I started riveting them on, then my rivet gun...

More progress (week off!). The inside sill is going to get a fish plate over the joint as it’s right next to the mount. Starting to come together and look new

Thankfully I managed to buy some pins off eBay - LR Optional Parts and they came in a few days. Great service 👍. I fitted the catches to the glass, gave the glass a clean, painted the round securing nuts silver to make them look a bit better 😊...

Offside had been repaired but only finished in primer. The result was it was rusty and the repair around the bottom wasn’t too nice most of it was usable. I cut out what I didn’t like which also gave me access to epoxy the mount area. Lots of...

... and in front.

After almost 11 years and 93 thousand kilometers A little pampering, front and rear EBC EXTRA DUTY ED+ pads. ... just in time, at the rear

More alignment work. What a tricky job that was. I made a z plate for the rear floor and rivnutted the seat nuts in. From there it got tricky! You can see why. You’d think the z plate was bent. It wasn’t - the floor rise was. So I made a...

Always an awkward repair but more so when you’ve got to ensure it doesn’t knock out your lining up across the rest of the repairs. Test fitting is a must. Takes longer but I don’t want to find I’m out on my boot floor which would then knock on to...

To move on the window installation, I cleaned up the two sliding window catches. They cleaned up quite well, but unfortunately I am missing the two plungers. So if anyone knows where I can get some, let me know! To get this moving I used the ones...

Thought I would tackle the o/s glass channel today. The channel itself was quite sound as it was galvanised, but the felt runners were completely shot and a pig to get out! After some fighting and swearing I managed to get the channel stripped...

If you've got the go ahead from your financial director i'd get the nice new one. I spent (and am spending) countless hours on it. I do get it about wanting to repair the original though.

I'm hoping to use the old foam, it seems in fairly good condition 😁 Boss lady saw the dash last night and said, don't bother repairing, buy the new one, stop being tight, it's only £600! Still undecided, I'd quite like to have a go at a repair 🤪

Hope you are on the mend 👍

I bet rivets would work. I always tend to do things the hard way. You just need to keep the heads fairly flush on the outside where the foam goes on. Are you reusing the original foam? Mine was too far gone so i'm recovering it in EVA foam.

Did a few more jobs today. Thought I would try fitting the rear window just to give an impression that im making progress! 😂. I cleaned off the original dum dum sealer from the glass and gave it a rub with some thinners to give it a good surface...

Next, I should have spent the time fitting the two alpine windows, but as the rear body upper sides have been sitting here for a while, I thought that I would move on to them instead. If I fit them on the Landy, then they are less likely to get...

After sorting this out, I gathered all the fixings and loosely bolted the tropical roof skin on. The rivet holes lined up well so that was a good sign. I used some aluminium aircraft spec pop rivets to replace the originals. The eagle eyed ones...

I had the roof prepped and painted in the original white before Christmas and hadn’t been able to do anything with it until now. When I stripped the tropical roof skin off, I found some of the spacers that give you the gap between the two roofs...