I have now installed two seatbelts into the back seat of the Land Rover, I will not go into the legal side of things regarding this installation, show to say that it’s slightly nuts. It’s done, and they shall be used by those who sit in the back. I placed a some large 10 mm thick plates under the wheel arch to spead any load, I have also rigged it such that while not in use the belts can be strapped up out of the way and will not rattle around.
This was the last of the stuff that we were able to cut using a 20inch bar chain saw. Next is the main trunk which is going to require some serious sized saw. I also made this short video:
I decided to replace the candle power head lamps with something that I hope will be brighter. I hhave thus far just daisy chained the indicator and side light onto the existing circuits. In the future I plan to add circuits back to the Arduino and some code so that those lamps are individually controllable.
Mike and I spent lunchtime cutting, loading and organising the brash. So that was two more loads done. Still got a few to go yet.
Ben did kindly print out the speedo case: I think that I’ve worked out how it is going to connect the cable to the gearbox, but the middle gear doesn’t allow enough backlash, so I have ordered two more gears, which are slightly smaller by 2 teeth and 4 teeth, these won’t arrive here till Jan 20th, so I must practice patience.
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.
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