I shot blasted the inside of the housing to clean it up and tacked the thing together. Ground back the rather rough welds. Stick welding thin sheet is difficult for me. In some places the sheet is so thin the shot blaster put holes in it.
I cut away the rusted material today and now have two of the three patches complete and ready to weld in.
We had snow from Thursday to Saturday, it was great fun and caused no end of chaos on the roads.
Used the 4 inch with wire wheel to start cleaning up the rusty housing, it’s not so bad, there is good metal in places. I think I am going to replace a good chunk of the area that rusted away. Probably replace a full quarter segment of the housing.
That’s the Land Rover running and fully functional again. Now onto the next jobs, the list starts with: Heater Blower housing repair Remainder of Dash Windscreen wiper limit switch or park position New seat back New seat base Disk brake conversion Galvanised chassis endless list starts here..
I have now made up the dash front/lower part and also the right hand end that houses the fuses. It just needs bolting in and livening up. Then the Land Rover is fully functional once more.
Today I fitted the Arduino on the new aluminium back plate to the land rover. It’s wired up enough to run the Arduino and proved the power supply, but no IO are wired in yet. Next job is to mount the fuses on a piece of aluminium that I can now start to design.
I think that short of the fuse block it’s re-mounted and ready to go back in. The fuse block will go on another piece of the dash. The Powerspark points:
Powerspark received and tested my broken electronic ignition module, they suggested that it might have suffered from premature failure. They’ve put a new one in the post to me at no cost. Wonderful, they’ve been brilliant really. I would been a little miffed if they’d made me buy a new part given that it failed at less than a year old, but then again they can’t be 100% that it’s not something to do with my non standard setup. Who knows. Time will likely tell and I shall carry a spare set of points and condenser just in case! I have started the move of the Arduino to behind the dash. I ripped everything out of the old mounting box that I had it in and have mounted it onto an aluminium panel that fits around the steering column and will carry the new dash surround. I have yet to […]
Was thinking about buying a tyre pump for the car/land rover. This is because Sainsbury’s have started to charge at the tyre pump. Then I was thinking that those pumps they sell for car tyres are particularly rubbish and probably very very slow. It occurred to me that I could use a 240V pump to pressurise a cylinder to a high pressure then use this to inflate tyres. So speaking with a friend who does scuba diving, there are cylinders available that are 3 litres and will carry that pressure.
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