Is he MIG welding this? W Think it was over 3 years :eek:

yep they are rusty hoors of things, lucky they look so nice or else I'd send the thing to the scrappy! :p

And how deep his pockets are! I'll be a bloody wizard with the welding gun after all the holes been patched ;)

Wait, you replace yours before they snap??!

Sorry I misspelled the title, should've said RUST-EE

Bit of scoring on the shell but nothing a bit of emery cloth couldn't handle

the bolt holding cam sprocket decided to undo itself resulting in the valves kissing the pistons, thankfully only damage was the rods and camshaft woodruff key sheared. Note to self... USE LOCKTITE!

Hiya, been hearing a weird clanking coming from the old coal burner up front so a taken the top of the engine off and the valve pokers look like this? is this something to worry about or is it normal?

sounds good when its freshly stoked up with coal!

Ah never considered warping, I might buy one of those mini gas welding kits with the disposable bottles and experiment with it to see if it's possible for me.

Good morning lads, how fare thee? I have a series 2 in need of body repair and I'd rather repair the panels by brazing or welding if possible. I'm not an experienced welder or fabricator but it appears that thin aluminium is quite difficult to weld, ac tig welder is out of my budget! and I'd...

Howdy, new to the forum. I’ve got a good axel from a 1994 discovery 1(abs) but with bad balls and I have a bad axel from a 1991 defender 90(no abs) with good balls. Now, I found out the non abs balls don’t fit the abs housings but is it possible to have the abs axel all non abs parts from the...