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    Electric paint guns

    Airless, they are brill, 2liters per min output do a land rover in about 5 mins, take you a day to mask it up though. They are designed for large areas I have used petrol ones for houses and gas lines etc. They take alot of cleaning out afterwards you have to flush thru the hose, ok with water...
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    SIII - Fix it or flog it?

    yes keeps most hairs in trim, the blindness is a bit awkward though. Welding is only a stop gap until the bit you didnt weld rots away.
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    wipac headlamp conversion series 3

    :eek:Got me self a multi meter and have not got a clue how it works! Turned light switch on and got bugger all on all the settings. So I have got two 20amp relays and fed them from the alternator, one relay for high beam and one for low. Both have a fuse in so it will be ok i think. Going right...
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    SIII - Fix it or flog it?

    If you are learning to weld in say a collage work shop, with nice new shiney mild steel. Anybody can be a master welder. (in some cases). BUT get underneath a chassis thats like a brown digestive biscuit, coverd in black goo, its a very different story. If you are lucky you may end up with some...
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    wipac headlamp conversion series 3

    Thanks for your advice, But I have just bought some wind up torches and rigged a rather clever way of winding them of me p.t.o. Also a head torch,. Yes sorry I will get of work early and buy one, (multimeter). Cheers
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    wipac headlamp conversion series 3

    well anyway, nearly sorted it, got a little help (but not much) from mustang sally land rover pages. It has a really neat wiring diagram from a chap called mr bean. http://users.mrbean.au/~rover/headlamps.htm But his colour code on diagram is well ,one colour, not like the haynes manual. I...
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    wipac headlamp conversion series 3

    hello, I think this is the right place to post? Just fitted new head lamps to my can of worms 1972 88"s 3. Left hand one went in ok, very sticky hands from removing insulation tape. right hand one, got too cocky and turned lights on and just the indicators lit up? Please note, put new indicators...
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    chassis cab

    I know, given the time I would take the whole body of my88" series3 72 just to weld yet more scrap metal to it!
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    chassis cab

    Be like a flat bed pikey transit though? Sounds like it would be easy to paint your chasiss?
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    Where do you live?

    hello from east anglia, Have a 88" series 3 1972, was a petrol but was changed into a derv.....? Doing head lamp conversion wipac halogen ones, wheel bearings with "oil" in them that leaked in to the brake shoes! Of course all the gaskets torn and left half on. and as for the wiring.. I could...
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