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Frostythor, thanks for the input - great ideas, the floor in general is very solid so putting an angled joddled piece in would be great. I bought the flat floor panels but I will use these to make the angle pieces. Taking that rear seat panel out is a great idea to be honest, its great to have...

Welcome! some very knowledgeable people on here and yes the freelander section will be of more help. I have none functioning drinkers side central locking on mine, its just the lock needs replacing

Hi all, Been busy making a You Tube channel, made a video on what I have been doing to my Discovery V8. Cheers Ian

Hi all, Decided to video what I have been doing. May give some people a bit more insight into how badly our Discovery's rust / rot out. Its a bit amateurish but I am not trying to sell anything. Youtube; IandiscoV8 Link here; Update too, front seats are out, very easy to be honest, stored away...

Update 25/03/2021 LPG gas tanks are removed, a bit fiddly but they came out no problem. The frame to hold the tanks in is a proper job - I will upload pics. Also got the bars off for the tow bar, the bolts need to come out next, been told these can be trouble some. Not much else to disconnect...

pics of the sills Best I have seen in a while, as seen only the rears to plate

I am going to make up some sort of frame work to support the body when lifted, could be tricky on an angle. Rear quarters are off, sills are in very good original condition, only the rear of the sills to plate and I am going to weld these up 1st then do the door inner panels to the C post then...

Hello, Yes I will take some pics. I cannot fully remove / move the chassis out due to where I have the beast parked. Plan is to remove all the mounts up to the front ones then just loosen these off then lift the body at the rear, this should give enough clearance to do the welding repairs and...

Work done today; Removed the arms connected by the ball joint on the axle top, took my time and got the nuts and bolts off, took 45 minutes, the bushes are still sound. Removed the seat belt to chassis mounts, again I took my time and saved all the hard ware. Cleaned the Lpg pipes and the axle...

Europa486 Thanks for the reply. I have last year discussed lifting the body of completely and yes that is the best way, I found it difficult finding a method to do it, shortage of space on my drive was one problem. I have found some DIY plans to construct a frame that can lift the body up around...

Maybe this is the best place to ask questions regarding repairing rear chassis on my D1 OK I need to do some welding to the mountings where the large round X member joins the chassis rails. How far can I jack up the chassis at the rear with all of the body mounts removed. Aware that will have...

Hi all hope everyone is keeping well in these strange days? I decided to make restart on my 1999 reg D1 V8 yesterday, lovely day so why not? OK situation as is now; rear X member needs replacing, rear floor needs replacing and the surrounding supporting lip/ledge, floor supports need replacing...

Blimey its been a while since I have updated - May this year, and what a year!! So I have been very lazy and done nowt until last week and have decided to do little bits every day. As the V8 has been standing out in the rain a bit of rust has appeared where I took the rear panels off. The rust...

Sorting out some RUST with some convertor before stripping the panels off

Well I had a great result today. After a false start and I reattached the earths on the rear posts. The Beast fired up first turn of the key. There was a leaky return pipe so I extended the hose from the tank cut out the rotten pipe. Moved the beast for the first time in a year - think its been...

Well been a while and sorry for no updates. I have been fixing up my 1989 GPZ900R and this lockdown is a pain in the a.se! Done nothing to the V8 for a few months now. A few days ago I decided to move the V8 closer to my garage door so I can start the welding. I thought just strap the fuel tank...

Hello everyone following, I hope everyone is safe; all be it locked in your garage/drive/house. I have been busy with paying work and the weather was pretty dire last 2 months, mainly windy which is no good when MIG welding, I did not get any further with the Alpine window repair, I have found...

I have been practicing removing spot welds on some old panels

I have had a few burns over the years and yes welding upside down! They are very nice overalls though haha and if the beast catches fire I will at least not burn to death!! - hope not!! I have started making the first repair panel and of course had to pick a complicated ish one - the crusty bit...

@resto_d1, Thanks for the advice, I have been fairly dormant with the beast as weather been either bloody cold or windy. @border, too expensive to lift the body off with crane, should be doable with 4 strong blokes. I have decided I would like to use the beast for a bit so..... I am going to...