My Discovery build....

Mr Noisy said:

Legendary!

You could have got the welding shivers mate, bad flu like symptoms from welding zinc.

Me and my bro were sick as dogs after about a week of welding my back end together, took a while to work out the problem. Zinc poisoning FTL

Anyway well nice to see you have a bed built, welcome to the DisCamper team

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Drink couple glasses of milk before welding galvanize coated steel, something about it helps body stop absorbing the fumes..

True!

Bit bloody late now lol

Have just sat and read every page. Really interested to see the end result, amazing work.

Cheers! i appreciate the comments

Well Mikes last full on day went like this:

I started putting the loom back in:







While Mike started installing all the new Kunifer brake lines i had made:







I also had an Earls extended rear flexi made to match the already extended fronts:







Then i flushed one of the 5 matrix out i have and installed that along with the blower motor:







Lifted it on the ramp to fit the front to back hose:







And the flexi going in with a custom chassis bracket to the new line:







Due to the Galv'd chassis and the fact they were an early creation of the X-Arm which werent 100% accurate, they needed machining down so they clamped up tight again:











So theyre now back on and tight as they should be!
And finishing off Schutz'ing after welding the p-clip bolts inside it melted some of it off:











And to finish up, sealing the rear quarters back on:

you excited yet? coming together

Not really. Need to find a fair few quid before it can be progressed much further...

Just throw the seats in and drive the thing.

Come over and help me then lol

Very super

Want some brake hoses myself, wish i could just buy a roll of hose and some fittings and make my own.

Do they have to have crimped ends or can you get threaded compression type ends?

How much do you estimate that build to have cost so far if you don't mind me asking? How much roughly for the chassis sand blasted and galved?

brettguise said:

How much do you estimate that build to have cost so far if you don't mind me asking? How much roughly for the chassis sand blasted and galved?

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Most of the problem is finding somewhere to do the work these days...

It owes me around £10k for everything

Drizz said:

It owes me around £10k for everything

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Bloody hell no expenses spared. I don't know your setup or if the work is being done by somebody your paying etc. Id love to have the cash to do a project like that.

People say that land rovers are a cheap hobby, far from it, I have an easy 10 grand in mine and its a fairly stock looking disco on small tyres which I have never paid anyone else to work on.

Needless to say the original plan was to keep it cheap

Mr Noisy said:

Very super

Want some brake hoses myself, wish i could just buy a roll of hose and some fittings and make my own.

Do they have to have crimped ends or can you get threaded compression type ends?

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These were threaded compression ends with a olive. more expensive than crimp on ends but with the benefit of having a roll of hose and making them custom length to suit the job without having to fork out on a crimper.

brettguise said:

How much do you estimate that build to have cost so far if you don't mind me asking? How much roughly for the chassis sand blasted and galved?

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You would be looking at change from £300 for sand blasting and galving

mikeyt said:

You would be looking at change from £300 for sand blasting and galving

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Mikey, did you get chassis sand blasted and galved or acid dipped.

wickford90 said:

Mikey, did you get chassis sand blasted and galved or acid dipped.

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Dan had it sand blasted after the chassis was modified and then straight to galving after drain holes were drilled to let the air out during galving.

they do do a acid dip/clean and then into a stabilizer as part of the dipping process, but they wont take one in covered in paint rust and waxoil etc..

mikeyt said:

You would be looking at change from £300 for sand blasting and galving

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See now that's well worth the money.