This may, or may not, be the start of a fair size project. I have dragged the V8 engine and gear box that was pulled from my white V8 110 Country station wagon some 15 or so years ago. Since then it has been languishing in a hedge getting grown in with brambles, Having dragged it out using Dave’s winch, we split the engine, gearbox and transfer case, removed the exhaust manifold and bits. Then the next day Alan and I stripped the remainder of the engine down. Loaded it all into the car and brought it home. Next is the job of cleaning it all down, and seeing what’s okay and what’s not. I shall then make a decision on whether or not to carry on and rebuild this engine, or whether to not bother and do something different. Got some thinking and cleaning to do.
Fitted the rev counter to the land rover again. Forgot it had so many wires, turns out it’s a TIM branded 4, 6 and 8 cylinder capable job. I found this wiring diagram online.
A very rotten tree had fallen on the outskirts of the village, so a neighbour and I went down, cut it up and bought it home. It’s very well seasoned, possibly too well, it’s very light and will burn very fast, but it’ll still give of heat and my neighbour said he’d burned worse, so that was good enough for me.
I had made up dash ends way back (https://bhhh.co.uk/dash-eend-bit/) in March. Now I really liked the brushed aluminium that I made them from, but I found that there is a good reason why dash boards in cars are usually black, if they’re not you get reflections in the windscreen, which is super annoying. So I have painted those bits black now:
Tonight i changed the brake shoes on both rear drums. So that’s a good job done. My phone battery went flat so I didn’t get many photos. I cleaned a lot of muck out of the near side drum, that’s the amount in the dust pan. The other side was far cleaner. New shoes went in pretty easily, plenty of copper slip was applied to all mating surfaces. So it should all come apart again just fine. I shall have the fronts off in the next day or two just to see the condition.
On my way to do my volunteering day at the Kingcombe Center, I thought I would take a more direct route that might be fun. The lane was very scratchy from the beginning to over half way. I will not be doing this one very often, although the bottom most part of the lane was fun and pretty clear. I had to cut back a few branches to get through easily. I may return one evening and do some more significant clearing.
I had noticed that there was a grinding noise from the rear brakes a number of weeks ago, and hoped it was just grit and muck in the drum. I finally got around to taking the drum off and having a look yesterday. It was as I had imagined, not grit and muck, but the shoe was worn right out. This tells me that I should have looked ages back. I shall have to fettle the drum a little and remove some of that grooving. The depth of wear is not great, I’ll roll out the angle grinder and a flap wheel and just take it down a little. I’ll get shoes for the rear axle and do the other side while I am at it.
Took some pictures of the Land Rover on the drive having been out for a drive on Sunday. I went to the Repair Cafe in Dorchester and then to the tip to get shot of the remainder of the leather sofa. I discovered that the other swivel housing is now leaking oil, so the next job is to replace the oil with the one shot grease as I did a while back in this post https://bhhh.co.uk/2022/04/29/. I did take the land rover out the other evening and advanced the timing to the point where it appeared to still run well at a reasonable rpm. I did this totally by ear and have not tried it since, so we’ll see how this goes, also made the fuel air mixture richer. It’s still not popping on overrun, which I would like to hear, as that would tell me that I was running […]
I did this because I could and the design isn’t well thought through and I don’t like it. As such there is a fair possibility that I will do it again. I simply have not yet managed to work out how to achieve the result I want. There a before and a few afters.. I want a spiral type shape to be formed, I think I need to cut a strip and somehow stitch it, not sure how.
Got the steering wheel back on, I think it looks good and fits with the theme. Not sure what the theme is, but I still think it fits. Much like the off white wheels, that I may paint black or some other tire type colour. Here is a decent before photo of the original cover: Then I removed the cover, and posted here about it: https://bhhh.co.uk/skinned-the-steering-wheel/. This is the picture I used there: And now..
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