Paul D's 1989 '90

And its freshly painted, happy days. Tick that off your list!

I get the hint though, you need to try out your new toy until its empty and re-fills are close. I'll start the orderly queue and be the first in line to offer my truck to your experiment..

So, having replaced the rear shocks, and after sitting there contemplating droop angles, rotations and forces, it strikes me that longer trailing arms, and probably radius arms up front, ought to work better if they're longer. I reckon, much like many a racing 4x4, new chassis boxes and longer arms ought to provide a much better balanced ride, better reliability and less stress on all suspension components.

... and I now have some welding gas!!

Anyone any thoughts?

I haven't worked anything out yet, just thinking about 'stuff that might help' that'll cost notalot if I make it. I'm going to look about, see what other people do and what's available 'off the shelf', then try to model what I want to do to work things out properly and safely. Be an interesting exercise even if I don't actually weld anything ..

So, once again sitting around and pondering stuff whilst under the landy, and thought 'jeez but that's suddenly a lot of oil' ... covering the rear diff and things aft of. Bloody diff oil seal, I thought, but no .. diff pinion bearing!

Dropped the diff out, and whilst the bearings 'feel' decent, they're loose when tightened up and indeed won't tighten properly, so for now I've dropped a 24 spline diff in and 24 spline half shafts, so no rear locking diff.

Not sure I have the kit to setup a diff pinion, no proper way of measuring the heights for shims. So I think I'm gonna bite the bullet and send it off for proper setup. @jamesmartin is this something you could do within a couple of weeks? I'm supposed to be going to Wales towards mid October and really want the locker back in by then. Please pm me with a price etc. I'll deliver and collect, if that's OK.

I have really enjoyed reading this thread and love the way your Landy has evolved through adaptation and ingenuity!
Its bang on and is fully deserving of a 'built not bought' sticker !!!

cheers,

Rich

callisr said:

I have really enjoyed reading this thread and love the way your Landy has evolved through adaptation and ingenuity!
Its bang on and is fully deserving of a 'built not bought' sticker !!!

cheers,

Rich

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Thankyou, there's a lot to do yet .... Next big thing will be the fuel tank / seat belt hangers, the tube bits out of the chassis are badly corroded, but I've bought a couple from YRM and will fit them sometime ..

Which diff do you have?

Not been on here for a while.

@Sting Ray ARB RD56 I think .. it's an old broken one that we rebuilt and modified a tad ..It's been put on the back burner due to stuff ...

So today, finally got a chance to remove my exhaust, turbo and manifold to have a look at the starter .. and replaced it, so all's fine. Reason I had to remove everything was because we fitted a 300Tdi into 19J space, with a custom exhaust down tube. If I kept the standard we'd have been OK, but would have had to make up new engine mounts, so stitching an exhaust seemed easier and quicker, at the time.

Also needed to check the transfer and main gearbox to check for a loud rumbling .. so I'm swapping the original transfer box for my old Disco one which appears in perfect fettle and we're going to buy a refurbished main LT77 gearbox as the rumbling seems to come from there and I don't have time to do anything about it, just swap the parts out and have a look sometime when it's warmer ...

Kin/Hell paul yu been a bit laaaazy with the maintenance ! LOL

I have mate. When these are done there's still a lot to do, there always is!

When yu get it sorted Paul yu can do mine if yu get board !

I haven't been on for a while, as usual I ain't been well, life's sh1te sometimes.

Anyway, not done anything to the gearboxes, not enough money for refurbs, not enough decent weather to fix them or inclination to drop them out, therefore it's been stood rotting for a while. So the other day I went out to properly check a couple of things and tap away wiv' a' 'ammer ... 't ain't good ...

Paul D said:

I haven't been on for a while, as usual I ain't been well, life's sh1te sometimes.

Anyway, not done anything to the gearboxes, not enough money for refurbs, not enough decent weather to fix them or inclination to drop them out, therefore it's been stood rotting for a while. So the other day I went out to properly check a couple of things and tap away wiv' a' 'ammer ... 't ain't good ...

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Sorry to hear you haven't been well, Paul.

Seen problems in that area on quite a few old Nineties and Fenders. Bit of a double whammy, the area round the tube outrigger and back of the battery box gets flayed with road salt and mud off the wheel, and the battery box gets the corrosive juices off the battery from inside.

Hope your feeling better Paul ! well I bet you were till you found that lot to fix

Cheers. yeah, good now. Low Blood Pressure and a virus, you couldn't bloody write it!

Paul D said:

Cheers. yeah, good now. Low Blood Pressure and a virus, you couldn't bloody write it!

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Look after yourself. I had low BP when I had the bad AF attack last year. Eat well, and keep hydrated seems to be the way to go.

@Paul D

Glad to hear you are feeling better. Take care of yourself.

I am surprised your battery was not on the floor...that must have come on fairly quickly. Is there any chance the exhaust routing causes the failure to be expedited?

Which does remind me, must get out and get mine down the jet wash to give it a good clean out after last weeks fun. Although I do know my rear tub has to come off this Summer to weld a small hole in the chassis on the stupid under tub crossmember ( or do I mean the area designed to catch and hold mud and then rust way ) .

Cheers

I knew the battery box edge was rotted, with a small hole in the side, but not the extent of it. I'd put a piece of alloy plate inside so the battery wasn't actually on the floor of the box. The holes grew when I 'tapped' them ..

Paul D said:

The holes grew when I 'tapped' them ..

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Wot with a F00000KIN wreckin ball

Looks like the metal moths have moved in.
That's some work needed.

Hicap phill said:

Looks like the metal moths have moved in.
That's some work needed.

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Most of that is available as pre-cut sections, or you can plate it is you don't mind a slow fiddly job.