Slipstream
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Its only taken 28 years to achieve 
When i walk into it i think its been worth the wait though
When i walk into it i think its been worth the wait though
Slipstream
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Where cn i find the photos of you rust bucket ?I had to get the kleenex out after he flashed his 107 at me
I found a spare bucket full of enthusiasm hiding behind the rear quarter panel of a scrap 300Tdi
I cant find it ?
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I had to get the kleenex out after he flashed his 107 at me
I found a spare bucket full of enthusiasm hiding behind the rear quarter panel of a scrap 300Tdi
AH found them
To be fair it dont look bad, all easy repair work .
Your lower door posts and mine
Yours is a small amount of cutting out the rot and patching, The redi disco i did was a little more of a job than patching.
What is it with discos and dogs
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What a lovely little poochAH found them
To be fair it dont look bad, all easy repair work .
Your lower door posts and mine
Yours is a small amount of cutting out the rot and patching, The redi disco i did was a little more of a job than patching.
What is it with discos and dogs
I have workshop envy
Och, this was a 300Tdi Disco I repaired for a friend off the Belgian Land Rovers Owners Club, it turned into a bit of a mission.
https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/uneconomical-to-repair.278078/
That is some good looking work mate can’t wait to seen the landy waiting in the wings.
I wonder if these guys seen this @dieseldog69 & @resto_d1 as some encouragement
J
Brilliant work. My life is a bit upside down at the moment so haven’t been on my d1 at all really! Will be getting on the defender this weekend though and pick up a new pickup tomorrow. Litterally 0 funds for d1 and pouring rain do not help but I will get back on it!! Thanks for the tag - it all pushes me along
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Hicap phill
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You can even post about the JCB.
There are some digger drivers & farmer types on here...
There are some digger drivers & farmer types on here...
Slipstream
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Hicap phill
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If you have a problem with the jcb throw a question in here
https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/livestock-arable-veg-farm-kit-and-equines.294851/
https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/livestock-arable-veg-farm-kit-and-equines.294851/
Slipstream
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Slipstream
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Ive managed to squeeze the JCB into the workshop ready for the hand brake pads being changed.
The brava's been relegated to out side
Very pleased to see someone else on here with a JCB. Yours looks to be about there same vintage as mine. Late '80s?
Here's mine helping me build a shed a few weeks ago:
Mine's had a new hydraulic pump and various bits of tinkering to get the valves working. In the longer term it'll be wanting a bit of welding and fabrication to repair rust in the cab frame, plus the pins and bushes on the backhoe are rather lose. I'm hoping it'll last me long enough to build a shed large enough and strong enough to do some more restoration on it.
So post loads of pictures of any work on your JCB because I'll be interested.
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Mine an 87 black cab.
Had TCH put a new king post and carraige on it when i bought it, £5400 later the back actor is nice and tight
The pins and bushes have a small amount of play in them but nothing that concerns me at the moment.
Ive painted the front axle and bonnet. Im planning on giving it an all over paint job this year.
The cab is in good order the roof has been painted black so thats coming off soon and getting put back to its original white then ive got to make a new head lining. Im thinking of making a fiberglass mould to form one and covering it with a head lining material. That should stop the lining sag they suffer from
The front arm and bucket has a fair bit of wear in the pins and bushes so thats a job i need to sort out.
The engine is the 4236 turbo, Its sweet as a nut but the oil pressure buzzer sounds when its hot, thats either the shells thats worn or the oil pump so next winter the engine is coming out and they are going to get replaced .
I used to have an old 1979 3c , I rebuilt the engine all new pistons and liners, shells , head and valves all done and it was like a swiss watch but the actual machine was a right clonker !
The back actor had more slop than a pigs trough but it worked as it should.
I sold that and upgraded to this machine so i could travel it to jobs .
I gotta say a JCB is a lot more fun than a land rover but a lot more expensive to keep
The ''monster'' as she was known
Heres the old machine the day i sold it and the guy who bought it is the one in the blue 4x4
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Mine seems to be from around 1988, so very similar. I see some spares, like ram seals and pins and bushes are quite reasonable. One day when I have a shed where I can put a girder across to bear the weight, I'll take the backhoe apart and do the pins, bushes and king post bearings. It'll still dig in its present state, of course, but it's hard to be terribly precise.
I was wondering about a 3C because you can pick them up quite cheaply, and they were the kind of digger I admired as a child. However, I got a 3cx because I wanted 4 wheel drive, forklift forks and the extradig, oh, and the clamshell front bucket . So far its been quite handy on my smallholding. It's been used as a construction hoist, it's ripped large stones out of he ground with a ripper hook and dug ditches, so I'm getting good value out of it.
I was wondering about a 3C because you can pick them up quite cheaply, and they were the kind of digger I admired as a child. However, I got a 3cx because I wanted 4 wheel drive, forklift forks and the extradig, oh, and the clamshell front bucket . So far its been quite handy on my smallholding. It's been used as a construction hoist, it's ripped large stones out of he ground with a ripper hook and dug ditches, so I'm getting good value out of it.
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The early 3cx was in my opinion the best machines JCB made.
The only electronics on it are the two solenoids on the gearbox and the shuttle.
I think it was the 88/89 3cx that had the solenoid on the injector pump so it switched the engine off with the key, They also had the later more modern looking instrument cluster.
Mine has the pull stop which i prefer, Nothing to go wrong
I would love to change the loom so i could put the later dash in but that would cost well over 1500 quid.
The only real issues ive had with electrics id the loom plugs tend to deteriorate and cause bad connections.
Reckon i might look at making a new loom for it if i can get all the right parts.
Well see.
I did put a brand new steering wheel on it, Its from a modern 3cx but fits perfectly. Only cost me £25 from a breaker at ilkeston, He bought a load of new old stock and has hundreds of them
The first pic is the later cluster the second is the one in my machine.
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Yes, it's great having a ripper. On my smallholding the ground is very stony so I rake the ripper through the soil and it brings the rocks to the surface so I can pick them up. Or rather, in the case of larger items I can pick them up in the front clamshell bucket, I'm on a boulder clay subsoil so it's hard packed glacial residue - clay wit different sized stones in in it, So conventional buckets just scrape the surface whereas the ripper hook can really dig in and break the ground up. I got the machine from a man near Huddersfield and it came with a grading bucket, a smallish digging bucket with teeth, and a really narrow trenching bucket which I'll be using to lay pipes and cables in due course. The ripper was one of the first accessories i got for it.
I've got the pull out engine stop too. The only electrical items that work on mine are the starter moor and the charge light on the dashboard. I must spend a day with a mulimeter, pliers, soldering iron etc going over the wiring and seeing if I can get some of it working. It's got lights, wipers, instruments and the like but they're all dead. But so far I've just been hopping in and digging, ripping and lifting,
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Remove the cover around the steering column, There are four or five big round plugs with multiple wires in them. you will find some of them has dirt and corrosion in them making a poor contact or breaking contact all together.
Unplug them and clean the pins and holes with fine emery paper.
A good squirt of WD40 or duck oil stick them back together and see if that makes a difference.
Same for the instrument cluster, unplug it and clean all the copper connections with Duraglit or Brasso.
The wiring loom on the early JCB's seems to have a nasty habit of going brittle and the outer pvc covering cracks.
Also check the fuse holder they can suffer the same problems as the connection plugs
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Remove the cover around the steering column, There are four or five big round plugs with multiple wires in them. you will find some of them has dirt and corrosion in them making a poor contact or breaking contact all together.
Unplug them and clean the pins and holes with fine emery paper.
A good squirt of WD40 or duck oil stick them back together and see if that makes a difference.
Same for the instrument cluster, unplug it and clean all the copper connections with Duraglit or Brasso.
The wiring loom on the early JCB's seems to have a nasty habit of going brittle and the outer pvc covering cracks.
Also check the fuse holder they can suffer the same problems as the connection plugs
Yes, I expect mine will look just as corroded and verdigrised as yours. I'm pretty sure a lot of my problems are just poor connections, caused by a lifetime in the open air on damp building sites. I probably also should get it a new battery. It's difficult to get the resting voltage above 10.5 V and it generally needs my booster to start it. Anyway, this week's repair will be another hydraulic hose as I've burst one https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/a-new-project.335519/page-23#post-4585535
