My Discovery progression thread

[Russ81]

Hi guys had my disco for four months now thought id start a thread for everyone to see.

I've only had weekends to do the work and not took too long to getvto where I am now with the bad weather we've had. Anyway here are some pics ive took along the way there are some pics ive forgot to take apologise.

 

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

Looking good Russ. All of your work will provide a solid platform for your build.

Can I give you a tip? In Photobucket, click the IMG tab and paste it straight into here.

 

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

 

[Russ81]

Nice one cheers. Was doing it from my phone and couldn't remember which one it was.

 

[Russ81]

They are the only pics I have of the rear I thought I took some of it finished but I didn't.

 

[Russ81]

The rear calipers were past there best



New calipers and pads only britpart ones with abit of paint.



Hole in bulkhead welded up its been painted black and wax oil over it too



Window lift channels were rotton on the back so I made up some new ones up

 

[dieseldog69]

What are those tabs on the edge of the foot well for???

Never seen them before, perhaps they were added to create points for corrosion to begin???

Looks oh so familiar

Great work BTW, what are you using to seam seal your welds with???

 

[Russ81]

There for the plastic splash guard thing to connect to.
Its some brushable seam sealer from local auto paint repair shop

 

[Russ81]

Well she has been in the local landy specialist because I couldn't get the abs blink test to workand gey moted, £300 later she was fixed it was a dodgy earth apparently and failed mot on a track rod end dust cover and washer jet packed in. Im pretty chuffed that my welding was upto scratch.
Sorry about the lack of pictures.
Now I can think of getting some mods done.

 

[Russ81]

Thought I would update this as its been awhile and lots has changed.

First up a picture of its first laning trip after its mot

 

[haigy]

How thick is the steel your welding looks top job your doin keep it up

 

[Russ81]

inside was really bright and I didn't like it so had ago at tinting the windows

as you can see the alpine window didn't go so well they were a nightmare

 

[Russ81]

How thick is the steel your welding looks top job your doin keep it up

Cheers, 1.2mm I think it was, its the boot side skirts from YRM, came out well as I hadn't welded for 10 years and was a bit rushed.

 

[The Mad Hat Man]

YRM panels are usually 1.2mm

 

[Russ81]

YRM panels are usually 1.2mm

Must of been then, they were ideal as the bit I cut off the two where the wheel arch is was plenty of metal to patch the rest of the holes.

 

[Russ81]

Next was to do something with the sagging headliner pulled the cloth off to reveal this


scrapped the glue off and painted it with black rattle cans I had


sorry about the poor picture

 

[Russ81]

After seeing StuRox thread on -35 offset modular I decided I needed them to
I went for some 265 70s

 

[Russ81]

Next I cut the valance off the front bumper at the side bits were hanging off at the top anyway, fitted britpart 2" lift springs don't have pictures of that but this is how it looked.

 

[Russ81]

articulation wasn't good, so had to take it easy until I could afford some extended arches.



fronts were easy to do



wasn't to keen on doing the rears was a rush job I was meant to fold the outside in but forgot but its turned out ok.

 

[Russ81]

now there is no catching