1976 series 3 rebuild

Well then, tonight Dad and I got the bonnet, wings and apron painted (again with a brush and roller). For this we just brushed the paint on and then went over it with a good quality foam roller from wilkos to get rid of the brush marks. Gave a pretty decent finish I think







List of jobs to do now (probably over the weekend) are:
fit front end lights,
Fit vent flaps,
fit grill,
fit bonnet,
turn roof over and paint the top

Good stuff! Can you tell it's been brush/rollered rather than sprayed?

Rubins4 said:

Good stuff! Can you tell it's been brush/rollered rather than sprayed?

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With the first coat, if you look really really closely you can see a bit of an orange peel type effect but this is only the first coat. From about 2-3ft plus you cant really see a difference between spray and roller Going to give it a bit of t-cut when finished which will hopefully make it a bit smoother as it will probably give a finer finish than flatting back with wet and dry

Right then, today we managed to do that whole list Ii put up in the last post and got the front end practically finished. Only thing that needs doing bodywork wise is bolting the wings and wing stays up properly as there is a large gap between bonnet and wing on the passenger side.





Also got the roof rubbed down and painted in limestone tonight Going to do the sides when its actually on the vehicle



Tomorrow we'll hopefully all being well get the brakes bled and the roof on

Got the roof on tonight, all be it on blocks so we can stick mastic down before finally fitting it in place









The more observant amongst you may realise its facing the opposite direction to yesterday, that's because we bled the brakes this morning and my dad backed it out the garage, turned it and backed it in to make it easier to get the roof on. And yes this time I have a video of it (filmed by my brother on his phone hence the funny quality - will do a better one tomorrow with the proper camera after sorting out the tappets)



Moving the land rover out of the garage for the first time - YouTube

excellent, paint job looks first class in that vid

looking good

Its alive!

looking good, can you get a closeup of the paint job and where did you get the paint?

Thanks for the good comments guys

trax said:

looking good, can you get a closeup of the paint job and where did you get the paint?

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I will try and get a close up tomorrow after work if my camera can work enough to get a good close up shot

The paint is ordinary paint from paddocks straight out the tin I find the quality to be excellent and the paint coverage is very good too

looking good, commented over on the SE forum

samc88 said:

Thanks for the good comments guys



I will try and get a close up tomorrow after work if my camera can work enough to get a good close up shot

The paint is ordinary paint from paddocks straight out the tin I find the quality to be excellent and the paint coverage is very good too

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nice, lets see if you can get it all done before the snow

trax said:

nice, lets see if you can get it all done before the snow

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Got an electric heater and gas fire in the garage

Going back down after tea so shall get a close up pic for you (or try to anyway)

Been adjusting my fuel pump today as it was kicking off a lot of white smoke and running a bit lumpy (i.e. it was firing a bit too late so a lot of excess diesel was going through the exhaust)

To set the timing on the 2.5 N/A diesel, you slacken off the 3 nuts holding the pump to the front timing case just enough so you can lever the pump. Start up the engine and while its running use a long pry-bar to tilt the pump towards the wing to bring the timing in (and the opposite to make it fire later). Its amazing how much difference a little bit of pump movement makes, 1 second it was running lumpy and with a slight nudge the engine note changed for the better and the smoke started to disappear. Result now is its running far far smoother than it was in the video with no white smoke at all.

Today we also painted the roof sides in limestone (will get pics tomorrow after work and will try and get a decent video of the engine running)

nice, i wa amazed at the difference it made to mine aswell!

trax said:

looking good, can you get a closeup of the paint job?

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A close up shot of the finish we got with the brush and roller for Trax (sorry for the delay)





Also Tonight I gave the old landy a run and took a video (we all like a good video). Runs a lot nicer



Land Rover series 3 engine run - YouTube

cheers, looks pretty good. lil peely, but not bad!

This is still only the first coat remember, going to flat it back with fine wet and dry (probably something like 1200 grit and above), paint another coat and then polish that back with t-cut to get rid of the air bubbles (well thats the plan)

Sounds and looks great. Where was all the smoke then?

Land Raver said:

Sounds and looks great. Where was all the smoke then?

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Its all gone now since we sorted the pump timing out (thankfully) now its not like going through a fog bank when you start it up