There was a little flooding of the river again over the road. I went to play in the flood water.. Once I found the tree I nipped home (back through the flooding) for my axe and hand saw and set about clearing it. I had great fun for a couple of hours.
I had a tin of red gloss Humbrol paint that was just lounging in a draw. When I spotted it some time back I thought about doing the wheel centers and wheel nuts in red. I made start of the other day: I am thinking that I’ll clean up the wheel centers and do them in red also. I might remove the drop from the Land Rover text, not sure yet.
Took the Land Rover to get a tune at a garage with a rolling road. It was an mini adventure getting it back, I took my bike in the train to Castle Cary, then rode the 4 miles to the garage. I had pleasent ride through the hills. Then a fun drive home. The tune up had changed the driving characteristics no end. Before on the left and afterwards on the right.
Air “filter” is pergaps strong, the filtering element is only really pre-cleaner rated foam, so it’ll stop stones and small animals etc getting sucked in, but it’s not going to stop the fine dust from going through the engine. I bought the foam on ebay. Now last time around when I made the mesh “filter”, I struggled to make a perfect cone which sat nicely into the housing. So I was thinking hard about how I could do it differently this time. When I went out to the garage I had an old bath room mirror, which I’d taken apart due to it potentioanlly being a rear view mirror in it’s next life. The base of the mirror just happens to look like the back plate for the air filter housing. I checked it’s size and found that not only was it the right size, but it also has a […]
When I got stuck in the mud some time ago (https://bhhh.co.uk/stuck-briefly/) I managed to use to the Hi-Lift jack to removed one of the hooks that holds the rear hood flap down. It pinged off and went in the mud and I wasn’t able to find it. I set about making a new one from some thin stainless steel I had lying around.
I found that my fast method of spray painting my wheels had missed some bits, so blew then over and also removed the head light surrounds for the military look. Then wire brushed the mud off and painted those bits too. I also had some hinge rebuild kits so made up two series 2 door hinges up. I might at some point make some front doors which can be pined back against the wing.
I did it very quickly without any prep, so we’ll see how well it takes. It was a can of rubberised enamel paint, which sounds great. When I got stuck the other week, the stoney ground simply stripped the mat black paint right off, probably down to my lack of surface prepartion, well, I’m set for failure again perhaps. We’ll see. The paint dried mat, not gloss as it is when wet.
The handbrake had progressively gotten to the point where it wasn’t holding at all. This had become irritating so i set about fixing it. Turns out that the pads are right down on their limit. They’ll need replacing at some point. Whilst in there doing it i replaced the four prop shaft bolts on the transfer case output as they were close to stripped.
I recently found that i had a blowing exhaust. So I have now replaced the leaking mid section with a stainless one (likely 304 grade). I also made a nice new hanger bracket from a bit of thin 316 stainless.
I though I would check my spark plus to see if one of the cylinders was drinking oil. I planned on doing this because on start up the Land Rover produces a puff of smoke. I am not sure that it used to do this before the engine rebuild. I was worried that maybe oil was getting into a cylinder via the head gasket. If I were to have found that one of them was black and oily then the head would have been coming off again. As it was they all looked similar: That’s 1, 2, then 3 and 4 are below in order left to right, top to bottom. the phone camera was busy trying to set the colour profile best for the picture.. honestly I couldn’t tell them apart. They were just a nice dry light brown colour. I also discovered why I am getting fumigated inside […]
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