The biggest work recently though is priming and painting the bulkhead behind the seats. Primer went on last week and colour today. I sort of enjoy spraying. Even though i've hardly done any i'm sure it's a better bet for me than roller or brush. I'm not under any illusions about the finish i'm...

Because I wanted to replace all the spot welds with rivets I thought I should trial fit all the seat runners. I could just imagine me getting a rivet head in somewhere and then not being able to fit the seat runner because of it. Another time consuming job. Some seat bits where up the house...

Back to the seat box. The toolbox under the passenger seat was really beyond help. Initially I thought I would make a new one when the time came but that was when I was young and daft. Now that i'm older and getting weary I got one from YRM. It's aluminium instead of steel so avoids the...

Update time. Drivers floor. Old one has the bit broken off where the hi/lo lever goes through and is so thin and corroded where it meets the bulkhead footwell that a new one is needed. As nothing standard fits I thought I had better make one. Bit of a shame really as it's got that nice wear on...

Don’t ask me. The more of mine that I reassemble the more I realise that I can’t get anything to just line up. 😩

That’s the sort of door alignment that the rest of us dream of.😀

So yesterday I primed the tub bulkhead, the one behind the seats. It was hot, i've got no space, the masking tape was melting off, I couldn't remember how to set up the spray gun or how much I thinned the primer last time. I was almost at the point of walking away. I carried on and once i'd done...

I seem to get myself in more of a mess with rollers. Where it's all flat i'm ok but I come to an inside corner like in the bulkhead footwells and it all goes haywire. But you're right spraying is a total faff, especially when you've got no space.

Nice one. You can't have too much space. Whenever I see people on here with big, spacious work shops i'm green with envy.

Quite right. There are certainly enough landies out there for everyone to make them their own and do their own thing.

I'm spraying the HMG enamel on. Goes on smooth if you get it right. I'm a total novice and i'm struggling for space but it's possible. Also the kit i'm using is the cheapest stuff I can get my hands on and by all accounts not up to the job really.

If it is a series 3 try to gently talk him out of it. They look terrible. ;)

Good looking truck that.

I don't know if this will help but here's a link to when I did mine. One thing though, if something doesn't seem to fit well don't find ways to adapt things like I did. Really get to the bottom of what the problem is otherwise it just leads to so much hassle later. Guess how I know that...

100% agree with @catman275 above. I thought I was being as careful and precise as I could possibly be and yet as I now come to reassemble things I'm finding that stuff has moved. I did use britpart panels though which was really stupid but I didn't know any better at the time.

Next was the angle section on the back of the seat box that bolts it to the tub. In the past someone must have removed the seat box and then put it back in but only replaced some of the bolts. This means it got really bent out of shape and it's badly corroded. Some rivets in this bit but a lot...

Hi Bob. I'm really inclined to just leave it. You could drive yourself bonkers trying to chase every leak on these things. At the start I really thought that as long as I was careful, followed the instructions and took my time I could keep it dry. But everything that's got oil in so far is...

I've been having a crack at the seat box recently. First thing was to sort out that passenger side end panel. Doesn't look too bad from here but's corroded to bits inside from being in contact with the steel of the toolbox. I ground away the metal from the spot welds from the inside. I...

So here's the latest problem. I noticed a little oil on the chassis crossmember right under where the gearbox bell housing meets the back of the engine. I ran my finger round the underside and there is a leak. There's no oil in the engine so the only place it can be coming from is the oil seal...