time for some more pictures. The plan now is to full strip down the axles, replace all the seals, bearings, swivels and clean and paint the casing. The axles had 17 years with of crap on them so i got to work with the wire wheel on the grinder once.

Yeah the gear lever will be in the wrong place so i have 2 options for this. Strip it down and change the gear lever for a defender one as the insides are exactly the same or see if I can find somebody that will exchange it for a defender one, I was thinking that a gearbox reconditioners...

i think its bed time for me now so ill continue tomorrow :)

then i added the chassis to the scrap pile, pulled the wheels off and stuck the axles onto my axle stands ready to start refurbishing them.

i then pulled the engine, gearbox and transfer box out and put them to one side.

once i had stripped it down this far everything came to a halt, i couldn't decide what would be the best way to remove the body. i bought myself a cheap plasma cutter off ebay, which was working well until it went bang, turns out i had fried some of the MOSFETS somehow, I'm thinking it was a bad...

i then started to strip the disco down, the only thing i really want from the disco is the axles and the engine so I'm going to scrap everything else. anyway here are few more pics

This is what my 90 is like currently And this is the disco that I bought as the doner car. Not bad for £400, 1998 with 120,000 on the clock and just enough tax and test to drive it back.

I think its about time i started my rebuild thread so here it goes. Iv decided to do a full nut and bolt rebuild on my 1996 90CSW, iv never done a full rebuild like this before so its going to be a learning curve for me and hopeful ill be able to seek some advice/guidance from you guys too. I...

i love a bit of engine porn. i can't wait to do this to mine. what sort of paint is the silver? do you think it will last?

I dropped some stuff off for shot blasting last week. Front and rear axles with diff still attached, 4 back plates and 4 spring mounts. They wanted £30 per axle whick I though was pretty decent, I didn't ask how much for the smaller stuff but it won't be much. It would of took me hours with the...

I'll have to buy some of that paint I think. Hmmmm I think a friend of mine has an engine stand, I might have to borrow it off him. You've set the standard for my rebuild now, I have a slight OCD too :) and after looking through your pics I quite like the grey axles, iv already got some...

Brilliant work mate, what paint are you using in the engine? Hopefully going to be doing something like this with mine. Also is the engine on a stand or just on a work bench?

That's a great idea, thinking about it I might get one sooner actually so I can colour code some of the smaller bits like the backplates

I need to start a build thread. I dropped my axles off at the shot blasters on Wednesday and I won't have them back for two weeks so Im going to order new swivels and seals etc for them and I might start striping and cleaning the engine in the meantime. Got loads of scrap metal to get rid of too

I have got a cheepo gun that I found in my garage, I won't be using it though. I'll pop the one you recommended on my eBay watch list and I'll purchase one when the time comes. I really do like the RS blue and black combo.

Reasonable is good enough for me :) do you use a 1.4 or 1.8 version of that gun? I think I'll do a bit of research into painting this week and try to get my head around it. I do like the RS blue. I'll start a rebuil thread at the weekend too or one night this week if I find some free time :)

I'd love to buy a new one and drop a 300tdi into it. I was discussion this subject earlier and I decided I would still like to build it myself even if I had the money to buy one already done. You can't beat the satisfaction of finishing your own project and knowing it inside out!!

iv heard it all in the prep, won't be doing it for a while yet though, i need to finish my axles and then decide what suspension kit I'm buying then save up a bit for a galv chassis i think i remember seeing the RS blue one on here somewhere, your the master of painting anyway aaron, what...

i dropper my axles off at the shot blasters today, i did start cleaning them up with the grinder and it was taking forever so for £30 an axle i couldn't say no