After my defender proved to be two expensive to use to get to work and back every weekend, I sold it for a small profit after putting plenty of work into it.
So I needed something a bit fuel efficient and a bit fun so I went from the w reg silver puma that I owned before the defender and bought....
A silver w reg puma!
I love driving it but I started getting land rover withdrawal symptoms so without my wifes knowledge I used the rest of the money from my defender to buy a freelander diesel needing work.
I replaced the rear shoes then decided it wasn't land rover enough for me so I chucked it up on eBay and after the original winner failed to get in contact I used the second chance offer and he guy came down with his mate to pick it up, all was going well until the headgasket went pop while test driving it!
Luckily the guy still bought it at a much reduced price! After swearing that I would never own a land rover again, it took me precisely 3 days to find, convince the wife and buy this
A beautiful 1960 series 2 88 inch fitted with a 3.3 Perkins tractor engine. It needs a little bit of work, but of rust on the bulkhead and the rear main seal is leaking more oil than a leaky thing so I knew the engine would be coming out on As soon as I got it to work to swap it, if that doesn't solve it it will end up being replaced with a 200tdi
Well I then needed a way to get the land rover and the puma to the same place at once, the land rover to work so I could strip it down and do the jobs that were needed to it, and the puma to work so I could drive home again.
So I came up with a solution!
Not very often you see the project towing the daily!
Unfortunately about halfway back to work, the tiny bmw car radiator that had been badly bodged in place of the series radiator decided it had had enough and after waiting for 4 hours for the aa, I got to bed about 0400!
So I thought I'd have a busy morning to make up for it and I have made a very exciting discovery! We don't need to worry about welding anything, simple cutting an old road sign to shape and fillering into place is quite good enough!
Also works for footwell panels as well if you add some bolts!
But that morning I got to the point of pulling the engine out, just needed to stop for chicken and tea!
So suitably refreshed I headed back to the workshop and set about the engine, soon it was removed and on the floor so I stripped off the conversion kit ready to put that and the engine on eBay! That was the end of the first day in the workshop.
Tuesday started nice and early and I was back in the workshop to crack on, after making sure I had brought suitable brew and lunch with me!
The next job was to remove the bulkhead as it became obvious that it was beyond saving, as it turned out it was so far gone, I didn't need to remove the bolts running through the outriggers as both bottom corners had rotted away!
I also started to discover just how bad the person who had done the work to the land rover in the past had been! As well as the fillered road sign over the dumb irons, there was also some more of the sign riveted and fillered over the bulkhead, there was a final bit riveted over the rusty bulkhead outrigger as well!
The fuel return line was just fed through an unsealed hole in the top of the tank! Overall just someone that shouldn't be allowed near a toolbox again!
Then as a final part to Tuesday I pulled the seat box out, with all of 7 bolts holding it on!
As I only had Wednesday morning to work on the land rover, I decided to remove the front axle so I could get access to replace the dumb irons and also strip and clean up the front springs.
I have also aquired a v8 engine but I can't decide wether to fit that or go for my original plan of fitting a 200tdi engine.
I also started reforming the road sign!
So that brings me to today, I am sat in my room about to head down to the workshop, I think today I will have a dig out of the bulkhead and see just how bad it is!
So I needed something a bit fuel efficient and a bit fun so I went from the w reg silver puma that I owned before the defender and bought....
A silver w reg puma!
I love driving it but I started getting land rover withdrawal symptoms so without my wifes knowledge I used the rest of the money from my defender to buy a freelander diesel needing work.
I replaced the rear shoes then decided it wasn't land rover enough for me so I chucked it up on eBay and after the original winner failed to get in contact I used the second chance offer and he guy came down with his mate to pick it up, all was going well until the headgasket went pop while test driving it!
Luckily the guy still bought it at a much reduced price! After swearing that I would never own a land rover again, it took me precisely 3 days to find, convince the wife and buy this
A beautiful 1960 series 2 88 inch fitted with a 3.3 Perkins tractor engine. It needs a little bit of work, but of rust on the bulkhead and the rear main seal is leaking more oil than a leaky thing so I knew the engine would be coming out on As soon as I got it to work to swap it, if that doesn't solve it it will end up being replaced with a 200tdi
Well I then needed a way to get the land rover and the puma to the same place at once, the land rover to work so I could strip it down and do the jobs that were needed to it, and the puma to work so I could drive home again.
So I came up with a solution!
Not very often you see the project towing the daily!
Unfortunately about halfway back to work, the tiny bmw car radiator that had been badly bodged in place of the series radiator decided it had had enough and after waiting for 4 hours for the aa, I got to bed about 0400!
So I thought I'd have a busy morning to make up for it and I have made a very exciting discovery! We don't need to worry about welding anything, simple cutting an old road sign to shape and fillering into place is quite good enough!
Also works for footwell panels as well if you add some bolts!
But that morning I got to the point of pulling the engine out, just needed to stop for chicken and tea!
So suitably refreshed I headed back to the workshop and set about the engine, soon it was removed and on the floor so I stripped off the conversion kit ready to put that and the engine on eBay! That was the end of the first day in the workshop.
Tuesday started nice and early and I was back in the workshop to crack on, after making sure I had brought suitable brew and lunch with me!
The next job was to remove the bulkhead as it became obvious that it was beyond saving, as it turned out it was so far gone, I didn't need to remove the bolts running through the outriggers as both bottom corners had rotted away!
I also started to discover just how bad the person who had done the work to the land rover in the past had been! As well as the fillered road sign over the dumb irons, there was also some more of the sign riveted and fillered over the bulkhead, there was a final bit riveted over the rusty bulkhead outrigger as well!
The fuel return line was just fed through an unsealed hole in the top of the tank! Overall just someone that shouldn't be allowed near a toolbox again!
Then as a final part to Tuesday I pulled the seat box out, with all of 7 bolts holding it on!
As I only had Wednesday morning to work on the land rover, I decided to remove the front axle so I could get access to replace the dumb irons and also strip and clean up the front springs.
I have also aquired a v8 engine but I can't decide wether to fit that or go for my original plan of fitting a 200tdi engine.
I also started reforming the road sign!
So that brings me to today, I am sat in my room about to head down to the workshop, I think today I will have a dig out of the bulkhead and see just how bad it is!
