I had some wire wool and tried to shine up those two pennies. Then I applied a coat of lacquer in an effort to make them shine a little. You can now clearly see the date on that one. I’ve probably increased the value of the vehicle by a factor of 2 or more.
I have set about designing and making a gearbox to correct the speedo in the Land Rover. The speedo currently reads about 5/8th the speed which it should, this is due to having the LT77 5 speed box rather than a series box. So I need to increase the speed by about 1.6 times. I have chosen some brass gears off ebay, I have a 45 and a 30, which gives me 1.5, so that speedo reads slighly lower than my real speed similar to what car manufactures do. I have put a 28 tooth gear between the two gears to make the output turn in the same direction as the input. I set about getting Ben’s 3D printer out and trying to get it print well, but it was taking ages, this was my best result, which was about 96% the size it needed to be. As you can […]
I had a hole in the wing, guessing it was there for the wing mirrors, had it not had the later type mirrors. It’s covered over now, nicer than the rubber grommet on the other side. Hopefully that two pack epoxy glue sticks them solid.
I found that the brake peddle would pulsate when I pressed it, after fitting the new discs, I wasn’t sure why this might be, so just ran it for a while to see what might happen as it all bedded in. Nothing changed, so I took it apart last night. Having gotten the disc off, cleaned up the mating faces and put it back, I realised that perhaps the disk is sitting on the protruding stud splines and not onto the face of the hub. But by that time it back together, so tonight it’ll be coming off again to see.
I collected some stone slabs from a neighbour today. It was a bit of fun as it was an excuse to drive up a footpath for access to their back garden.
I spent a few hours installing new brake shoes and reassembling the locking differential. I also cleaned and coated the cross member and tested the differential. Afterward, I went out for a test drive, picking up concrete bits from the park to fill a hole.
I had noticed that the something was worn in the drive as there was always a clunck when pulling off. Not the worst I’ve experienced in the Land Rover, but not great either. So I picked up two new drive flanges for the rear axle. And a short video to round it off:
I finally got around to trying to get the diff back into one piece ready to go back in, but I fiddled with it for an hour last night and am still not happy with the bearing set up and the back lash.
I set about re-building the locker last night. I managed to get the broken part from ARB direct, on next day delivery, so that turned up yesterday. The last night I put it mostly together. Nearly there now, I will finish assembling it, then plug it into the air on the Land Rover and test to make sure that it operate properly before installing it in the axle. While I am here I shall replace the drive flanges and also the rear brake pads.
I chose to pop the diff out again, since the leak was not good and I remmeber that my logic wasn’t sound when I was working out whether I needed to put a gasket on. The logic I used was to check that the new diff didn’t have one, or something like that. Either way, the one I’d removed still had the gasket on it.. so off it came and no gasket went back on. I am not in two minds as to whether or not to re-fit the open diff then have to go through this yet again or wait for the locker part to arrive and then just re-assmeble it all once. The photop below is showing the brand NEW gasket… I was pretty surprised by the colour of the oil, that was only in there for a week and I only did about 5 miles. So I […]
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