I found that my fast method of spray painting my wheels had missed some bits, so blew then over and also removed the head light surrounds for the military look. Then wire brushed the mud off and painted those bits too. I also had some hinge rebuild kits so made up two series 2 door hinges up. I might at some point make some front doors which can be pined back against the wing.
I did it very quickly without any prep, so we’ll see how well it takes. It was a can of rubberised enamel paint, which sounds great. When I got stuck the other week, the stoney ground simply stripped the mat black paint right off, probably down to my lack of surface prepartion, well, I’m set for failure again perhaps. We’ll see. The paint dried mat, not gloss as it is when wet.
The handbrake had progressively gotten to the point where it wasn’t holding at all. This had become irritating so i set about fixing it. Turns out that the pads are right down on their limit. They’ll need replacing at some point. Whilst in there doing it i replaced the four prop shaft bolts on the transfer case output as they were close to stripped.
I recently found that i had a blowing exhaust. So I have now replaced the leaking mid section with a stainless one (likely 304 grade). I also made a nice new hanger bracket from a bit of thin 316 stainless.
It’s been reasonably spectacular weather of recent in this part of the world. First we had some cold, which just gave us some pretty views, a fog filled valley and a little ice. Then it rained a bit and some rivers flooded. Hannah kindly video’d me going through a flood at Chilfrome, then I tried to video myself cycling throught the same flood the day after.
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