What have you done to your Landie today.

Painted a heater box that ah've got tae go on the new bulkhead.

madfrank said:

Ive pressure washed the underside of mine after a play in a local quarry .

what jobs have you done on yours ?

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i fitted a heavy duty steering rod and then found i have a new leak from me drop arm well appy

measured a headlight box and a tyre.

Drove it to work, put a couple of litres of oil in it, drove it home.

Dear Mr Moneypit....
I think you are even better organised than me or your list is just much longer....

Buy and fit European CB system
Fit thermal insulation to either interior or undersde or both
Fit decent relay power system for accessories before a fire starts unpredictably
Find mytrhical Webasto heater foir £200 on eBay and win the auction
Fit the Webasto and not care about crap standard Defender TD5 heater any more
Work out how to sell wife on idea of further improvements following announcement of pay cuts for Defender 90 owners at work today!
Bastids!

waxoiled underneath the disco today looks like new under there all ready for sunday hindhead outing.Mot on tuesday ,hope i dont damage anything.Hopefuly steve wonder going to test it.

jzcktv said:

Dear Mr Moneypit....
I think you are even better organised than me or your list is just much longer....

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Me & organised aren't two words that usually go together, but thanks anyway.

I find the best way to approach a project is to break it down into small, managable segments. Ignore all the small jobs to begin with and just concentrate on getting the larger stuff sorted. If a large job is getting on top of you, then break that large job down into smaller segments.

Then once the major work is out of the way, take a step back and take a look at the details.

Make a plan and a timescale and stick to it, no matter what. Ok, so the timescale might be a little flexable, but the plan must stay the same.

To be honest, I have woken up in the middle of the night to add things to the list of jobs that need doing on the Disco. If I dont have my list then I'll go mad. At times it's the only thing that stops me putting a match to the whole bloody thing.

It's all too easy to become dissalusioned with a project. Hell, just look in any classifieds section of a classic car magazine to see all the project cars for sale that are "95% complete".

Like I said, making those dam lists is sometimes the only thing that keeps me motorvated to complete it. Otherwise at times you simply cant see any light at the end of the tunnel.

With the Disco not far off finished, (I reckon another £2000 tops, and done by the end of the year), the next job is a LS2 / LS6 & TKO600 in the Chim, along with new suspension and brakes. Now that is a job that will give me plenty of sleepless nights.

Dragged a newish Astra out of 6 inches of mud.

Hey there Moneypit!
Are you a project manager?!

jzcktv said:

Hey there Moneypit!
Are you a project manager?!

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Not really. I'm self employed, (sales), so I do plenty of planning on a day to day basis between myself, my customers, and my supliers. Which could mean dealing with people in three different countrys, and three different timezones.

The Disco is the first car type job that I have done the majority of the work on myself, although last year I gave a significant input into how I wanted another one of my cars restoring.

As I explained in my previous post, I just try to make the job as easy as possable for myself. No point being faced with climbing Everest as the task will become too daunting and you will lose motivation to get it finished. Must better to do things one step at a time so you dont become fed up of it. Making lists and planning helps me to achieve this.

After all, this is supposed to be a hobby for us isn't it?

Moneypit. Have you got a thread showing your progress pics? Yours sounds like an interestng project, would like to see what you've done without going back through his thread......

Another day were I did very little.....

As the project draws to a close my urgancy to get things finished decreases.


Jobs done today;

Tidyied up the front wiring looms and re-fitted the trim to cover them.

Removed the stickers from the lower parts of the doors and cleaned all the sticky crap off one side.

Removed all my tools from the workshop.

Wiped the car down with white spirit to get rid of the splashes of waxoil off the white paintwork. The car now looks white as opposed to dried out dog turd brown.

Gave the fuel tank vent valve cover another lick of paint. Thats one side now completely painted.



Still to do;

Finsh painting the fuel tank vent valve cover.

Fit front wheel arch liners

Fit electric window console trim

Secure centre consoul

Secure and paint rear wiring loom protector

Fit a few small items of trim.

Return to the workshop on Tuesday to touch up waxoil and check for any underbody leaks. Clean up the bay that I have been using.

Give the interior a dam good valet.

fitted one of my noooooooooo rocksliders

Cleaned the contacts on my battery and charged her up, hopefully she'll start tomorrow and I'll get to work on time!

As they say in Sweden... Absolute! :beer2:

Brian S said:

Moneypit. Have you got a thread showing your progress pics? Yours sounds like an interestng project, would like to see what you've done without going back through his thread......

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I did just write out a massive long reply to your question, explainig everything in detail.

When I went to hit 'submit' my internet had lost it's bloody connection, so it all got lost. DOH!

Short answer is no I didn't, sorry.

Jetwashed underside, undid one end of steering damper to check if it needed replacing. It didn't . crawled around underneath to check for any likely probs for MOT... Front inner wings showing daylight .

opened up the offside rear brake drum to check that there was no oil leak (brand new shoes in there)...

then started looking at the electrics, cured the fault on the indicators, rusty relay terminals, just gotta sort out why there's no feed to the brake light switch now...

only brought it home yesterday (my first landy)

filled it up with shopping from tesco making winch bumpers 2m

Filled front diff with oil and bled the brakes, have to pump them so will have to do it again:doh:
Went home