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After speaking to megasquirt I think gems was far more favourable than Thor…

Dickhead of a job. Shearing rusty bolts. Rusty tow bar, rusty step. Pain. Knew it would be awkward but it wasn’t that bad last time I did it. Progress is progress though…

They do mate via spot welds. Yeah totally get that - it becomes a mare when outside and you can’t keep it sealed up. I’m sure I saw threaded holes right next to the side pieces too but can’t remember now? My new floor turned up but I got a load...

Latest update, productive afternoon yesterday! Got most of the floor out. The corners are utterly buggered, so I’m hoping the repair panels will help. I’m also going to have to do some fabrication at the bottom of the door panels and...

Oh and a picture I took for you earlier!

If you want to tie into the rear quarters like it is front factory, the rear quarters have 90 degree angle at bottom that the side pieces go to. Also looks like these have been eaten away by tin worm. You going to remove rear quarters?

Nice work 👌 Snap! We are at the same place 😂

Exciting times. I had those panels off quicker than you could change a set of wheels 😂 O/S rear quarter. No damage to the seat belt anchoring area on this one. So thankfully again, no damage to to top of the posts. Get in.

After a small clean and hoover. Chassis looks good 😊😊😊 One small patch on the trapezium but that loooks like it so far 👌 I haven’t taken side out yet as need to remove other rear quarter and take some measurements for the braces for the new...

Rich had patched up the rear boot floor, which was fine for few years but 30 year old spot weld seams only last so long. I’ve decided that it will get totally new floor to go with a new rear crossmember. Even managed to snap my spot weld bit so...

Cutting begins

This one, I’m not so looking forward to. Never done one of these

Nothing too heavy to sort on nearside rear. Nice outcome. Top of d pillar thankfully clean - it’s one of the worst jobs to do that corner. Got a patch to cut out, new arch to go in and remove and reinstall belt reinforcement plate so that I can...

I don’t use the centre spring loaded ones anymore as I always end up jamming them up. I use a solid one. As above, use cutting oil. Probably not the best but I keep a bottle from my last service and use it as cutting oil in my oil squirter can...

More lube ... Centre punch, squirt of oil and drill spot out - move on to next and repeat...

already fitted mate as dash is all out for the recolour. I prepped dash and then added binder and what I’d call a scrub coat which is colour coat by hand.

Also mate (you may already know), if you plan to use dicky seats, their belt anchors are in rear quarter. There’s a panel fold spot weld join to the right of c pillar bottom, and then 105mm to the right of c pillar is a reinforcement plate. Rear...

Good to see you back on it. Boot floors are easy mate honestly. Just get either a good spot weld drill bit or a step one.

Oh and congrats on house!!

Not much to say! Been busy moving house, finally getting my own space back to work on the cars. Got a lovely car port (just over 2 cars long, 1.5 wide) and an outdoor workshop to start with. Will eventually try and turn the carport into a...

I was only looking at these the other day. I used to have a twinscroll legacy import. One of most capable cars I’ve ever had. I’m bored with my daily and starmer has literally taken the benefit of me running it so will probably go private car...

Might I suggest that after you establish that your D1 drives reasonably well you lift the carpets back front and rear to check how good (or bad) the floors and bulkhead are. Also peel back the rear boot mat to inspect as rear floor and inner...

He's already made his bed, by buying it. May as well advise him from here on in. There was a post on another forum from a chap thinking about buying a range rover classic. I've been doing my best to try and convince him not to. But the OPs...

Also, unless your particularly unlucky, it will mostly be body rust not chassis rust. YRM, Froggats easy on panels make replacements for most things. I use yrm for all my stuff now

If its been run that day, but allowed to cool, does it then start in just the same way, or better? If "better" i would suggest it could be somthing as simple as injector leak offs. If they get holes in them you get air come in when its not...

None of you are warning the man off! You’re encouraging him to get welders, workshops and start chucking all his time and money at it 😂. OP - If you want the body done properly, its a long old journey. I enjoy restoring them back make sure it’s...

Well if it wasn’t for the singer sowing machine sounding engine going past each morning I wouldn’t have given her a second look, beauty is in the eye of the beholder they say and in this instance … well a picture tells a thousand words

If you can weld and fabricate to a decent standard and have covered workshop facilities and your labour time is free then it's all doable. Inner wings,sills and floorpan and chassis repair panels plus materials will run to over £1000 I'd guess...

Call me daft but I don’t understand how it stops it curling. Do the screws go through the foam and into harder material underneath? I ordered it in grey and it’s pretty close to the new grey which is a winner!!

I fitted the repair kit in my old disco 1 with its curly dash. It’s an awkward job but works well. You’ll find some new swear words when you do so!