Its been a while!

So it appears to be the fuel line and fuel return coming from the carbs. I guess i just use nylon 6mm tube to fix it?

Yep I will post some tomorrow!

Landrover Discovery even, as you can tell I am not on point today - ever!

Hey I was welding in a foot well today and totally like a dickhead didn't think about protecting all the wiring and pipework which obviously was touching the back. I can deal with the wiring but there was some pipe damage and I have no idea what it is, does anyone have a parts diagram of a V8...

Amazing job your doing. I'm in awe of your rebuild!

After sleeping on it I decided that as strengtheners are kinda structural I should plug weld the new to the original as much as possible. So with my new found GCSE maths in hand I set about making template based on the measurement's. Using toa came up with a cardboard template, it fitted quite...

Got the upper hinge in the right place and tapered in, welded back on door pillar. Rain started so decided to cut away more layers to reveal rusted windscreen strengthers. Some pics taken through the day.. Laying out the measurements. Bend correctly Welded on Connected to jig Peeling away...

No I didn't get YRM as I went for the cheaper set, wishing I had got YRM now but I guess its hard to know until you get a close up look. All the repair panels seem to lack so much vital info on the page descriprions such as dimensions, thickness of sheet or even informative pics. YRM give...

I tried fitting door pillars today but the pre Dilled holes are in the wrong place! Not only in the vertical, out by 5mm but also not tapered in going up. I had to cut off the top hinge part and am going to have weld it back with the 5mm chopped off BUT I have to re bend the edges to allow for...

Yes the angle is what I'm calling the jig:-)

Progress made today with the jig to hold everything straight when repairing corners door pillars and feet. Took off drivers side pillar and foot went put on new one and heart sunk. It all came flooding back when trying get bulkhead off I had to cut through some bits because of the rust. Need...

Put that last panel on this morning works very nicely. Due to the great British summer and the amount of rain coming for the week I need to make a jig and get the new door pillars and feet on today. So I can get the bulkhead back on chassis and in the dry to fix corners and weld all the...

I thought it might be interesting to work out the panel using trig rather then eying and guessing. With the rain coming and going I had time to sit done and have a play around on some paper. The last panel is quite tricky as it bends vertically in the middle but needs to stay inline with the...

Thanks for the kind words I'll keep posting pics, may not always be in focus due to quality of camera in phone:-) On to the final footwell panel today, is a bit more tricky! 1.2mm sheet is like foil compared to the 2mm sheet I used for the horizontal parts! Can't buy these panels so this is...

Due to the amount of usefull information I have gathered from this site and weld-forum. I also want to help others by giving a running update with pics on my repairs to my rusty defender. Also as I am finding it hard to be motivated at the moment. Maybe this will help me get my mojo back! Long...

I need some door pillar replacement parts for my bulkhead and am undecided whether I need YRM 1.2mm steel or Land rover refurb original 1mm steel. The difference is about 50 quid against YRM but its thicker. BUT it comes painted and I want to galvanize so I would have to remove the paint. Also...

I have rot inside around the vent, YRM do outside full vent panels now. But they don't do the inside panels. I was thinking I could use the outside vent panel but reversed/rotated as the angle is the same inside as the outside. If you don't need the vent just bend some sheet in a vice. This...

Started on the bulkhead YRM had some different holes in their side panels for the footwells. Decided I would try and fabricate my own. Big shout out to TonyBMW on retrorides! If you have to make some panels, fabrication he has done a load of tutorials on retrorides...

Its 1/2 inch difference between them I guess I could leave it I'll have a lokkafter I finish the bulkhead.