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 ppopped up to the orchard to have a look to see if I might be able to fix a faulty amplifier. I took my tool in the Land Rover and got this picture:
I want to Dorchester the other day and came back via Gascoyne Lane. We’d also been to the sun flower trail, and I’d been parked in a field…
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.
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