Series 3 109 Station Wagon, full ground up resto and 88 redo careless resto driving project

Not shure how stable this will be

But the balance isn't bad

I guess some ratchet straps would be a good idea

Have been able to support the sides of the trailor where too much load was on the side by leveraging a couple of axle stands, to spread the load across the floor also

It's quite easy to move about

Good idea, I hope it works out.

From my experience of moving unhitched trailers around, the main thing to avoid is it tipping towards the rear, so putting more weight towards the jockey wheel solves that. Probably pointing out the obvious tho

Thanks, it actually worked out extremely well. The chassis is a great height to work on, and was very easy to push around, even uphill.
There is a bit of a front bias which has enabled me to use lone of the wooden supports at the front.
I'm just having to cover all the sharp bits before throwing a waterproof cover over
So as not to tear it.
It's great having the ability to use my garage again too

So excited to fit these discs to the Scooby
They're huge


But should be good for towing stuff. Just got to be very careful of going through deep puddles when they're hot was the drilled holes can cause cracking, but they they look nice

It was fun to be doing something mechanical fir a change.
That's the Scoob ready for his MOT tomorrow, and the Landy chassis has seen quite a bit of rain which is testing the Hammerite Kurust Rust Killer finish. It's doing brilliant so far, I'm super impressed.
Purely by chance I'd painted some exhaust parts about a year ago where they where starting to rust due to extreme temperature change, just for fun. Amazingly a year later the Hammerite Kurust Rust Killer black is perfect still
Wow : - )

Well 2 cars serviced and with a fresh no advisories MOT's.
I want to continue with restoring the chassis, but have gone to the woods for a wee break.
Found a really big Dragon Fly, can't include a pic as almost no signal here at Brigadoon !

I got another Landy, one that works lol.
Figured my money was better in this than in the bank, also I know my full resto is going to take a longer time because of my RA.
So I may not be able to enjoy driving it for long enough if the RA is progressive.
Lastly having another will help me see where everything should go, despite that the new older one has a million jobs needing done. But I've already had her in the woods and she's just perfect for the work I'm doing there.
No servo assisted brakes, yikes always using a dash cam, currently old mobile phone lol. So if some one decides to brake check me and I'll just have to ram them a bit to help me slow down! Because although 47 year old brakes work fine, I couldn't lock the wheels up, even if I had super strong legs. Not like a modern car's super powerful brakes with servo assist and ABS.
Here she is in the woods, we've been planting some Aspen trees



So off again today to the woods with my chainsaw and Kelly Kettle.

Very nice! Just in time for the winter. Looks very much at home there

Thanks,
1975 year called Gigi

Wagon Loon said:

I got another Landy, one that works lol.
Figured my money was better in this than in the bank, also I know my full resto is going to take a longer time because of my RA.
So I may not be able to enjoy driving it for long enough if the RA is progressive.
Lastly having another will help me see where everything should go, despite that the new older one has a million jobs needing done. But I've already had her in the woods and she's just perfect for the work I'm doing there.
No servo assisted brakes, yikes always using a dash cam, currently old mobile phone lol. So if some one decides to brake check me and I'll just have to ram them a bit to help me slow down! Because although 47 year old brakes work fine, I couldn't lock the wheels up, even if I had super strong legs. Not like a modern car's super powerful brakes with servo assist and ABS.
Here she is in the woods, we've been planting some Aspen trees

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So off again today to the woods with my chainsaw and Kelly Kettle.

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Do you find the Kelly Kettles work OK?, I was thinking of buying one but was unsure just how well they works with damp wood, the ground state of all wood out on the west coast.

If you have birch the bark is a great starter and if you have dead small branches still on trees, they're usually very dry inside.
I love my kelly kettle. Great for a cuppa or cuppa soup, if you have the fold in half grill you can toast stuff or grill for bacon butties.
The smaller capacity kettle has the same size fire bowl, so hot water faster.
Once you've got it going and added lots of wood, it becomes hot coals and can run for some time to cook on with the hobo attatchment etc.
But I found you can, with the grll in place fit a just opened can inside with the kettle part over the top. This has the can inside a rocket stove so it's heated fully very quickly. If you only just opened the can with the ring pull, you can use the top and ring pull as a handle, with a long spoon your sorted.
Baked beans, soup ect; all good. Sausages are just lovely from the folding grill too
Because everything goes inside each other it all fits in it's small bag.
I have a two part pan, and keep some fire starting birch bark and dry grass in a bag inside the pan, which inside the fire bowl. Also a fairly standard lighter dropped in so everything's in the bag. Just need the solid fuel.
With practice, you can get it working anywhere with a surprising verity of fuel source such as pine cones, but mostly brash from dead branches still on trees. Stuff from the ground tends to be damp even when it's dry weather.

what size do you have, its not clear on the website what they work out best for and there are three different sizes. I was thinking of getting one for backpacking and thereby save carrying liquid fuel.
The littlest one seems suited for this for one or two going by the website by the pot sizes quoted etc seem v. small........
Did you ever get your crossmember?

The only part that has a different size is the top hollow kettle/water container part.
The small size will boil water for a big mug, but once i it's up and running, you can refill and boil again very quickly, so the size doesn't matter that much.
The big one is for a group and takes much longer to boil. The medium size will do two mugs in one go but is bigger to carry and slower than the small one to boil.
I have the small size, and Richard a woodland neighbour has the medium size.

Not got the crossmember yet,bu there's no hurry lol

So the chassis which I need to come back to is in another part of the front garden.

It sits a little high on the small trailor, so I'll remove the side panels which don't help anyway, and it should be more easy to move.
The chassis is surprisingly heavy, but it's movable strapped to the trailor, just a bit high.
I haven't covered it despite it being outside as there would be condensation and it wouldn't be able to dry out.
Besides it's doing remarkably well, and where surface rust starts, I've found kurust by hammerite is extremely effective.
The next stage is to use a drain cleaner attach-ment I got for the pressure washer to better clean further crud out. It has four back facing jets and is very thin, so is designed to pull itself along the pipe inside, and the four jets are really powerful to break up for and blockeges.

It's the narrow size and powerful jet's which I hope will really get in there and remove all the $£ite and build up

So, rather than have two threads going for a 109 1982 Series 3, and an 88 1975 Series three which has has loads of parts and a lovely well prepared Richards galvanised chassis. But then was literally thrown together without any consideration.
Expected my 109 trip take approx 5 years, and now find I'll be lucky if that's achieved, but it wasn't about time, more doing a job worthy of our forefathers.
But the new older driving project keeps having me finding my jaw on the ground!!
The tub supports are all new, and not cheap, but none are actually attatchment to anything? Nienty! How the £@ck did this car pass an MOT just over a year ago.
Some jobs have been done exceedingly well, like the brake lines and painting and prep of the chassis, which when I actually saw was better than I had expected.
My conclusion is that this wee car's restorer simply ran out of patience, enthusiasm and money for her.
So sad because they had a great foundation and must have spent a bunch of cash

The lock barrel on the back door can be opened by anything, so I took the barrel out and re-tensioned all the springs and cleaned the sliding brass plates, In sure there's a proper name for them.

Behind it you can see the new barrels I ordered which are for anti burst locks, not mine!
That's why I tried restoring the old one, only to find more the key doesn't fit lol.
On further looking found the barrel look the driver door has been replaced and the back door left as any key would open it.
A matching pair of barrels have been ordered and maybe the barrel set which was the wedding type could fit the 109, as it's newer.
I like lone key to fit all the doors, well only the driver and back door take a key, but I like to have a modicum of security, and I keep stuff in the back too.

Well, I guess that’s one solution for not having the correct key for the back door! Lol

hope you can get new barrels - much more secure for sure!

Got two new lock barrels, both the same key.

Also found the fuel guage was actually with the wires connected the wrong way round, so when you put fuel in the guage went down and moved up to 2/3 full mark when the tank was empty. I knew it was not working but when the guage suddenly started reading 3/4 thought, oh! It's sorted itself. Then I ran out of petrol in the woods lol.
Fortunately I cary a jerry can with spare. Now the guage works as it was probably intended to, and the reading varies depending on the level of the land, which is quite entertaining


New locks fitted to the front and back door, so one key fits all.
The passenger door doesn't take a key.
But it's as secure as it can be.