Wagon Loon's latest activity

Moved over to the other side and fitted the driver’s side floor. Sounds easy, but took a fair bit of fettling to get it to sit properly! Anyway, I got it in and sealed it with dum dum the same as the other side. After that nightmare, I thought I...

Actually starting to look like a car 😀

make sure it aint just that first, they do sometimes rot through and they are double skined so not always obviouse

Thanks - still seems like a mountain of work to go, but progress is progress as they say 😀….

That's looking amazing, and it's all really coming together now 👍

I thought I would try a front door on, so fitted the hinges and gave it a try. As you can see it’s a mile out! I expected this, but not by that much…. Anyway, it could do with the bulkhead aligning as the chassis bracket is not fitted. I’ll try...

Happy with progress ,I moved onto the tunnel and floor panels. I fitted some wiring to the reverse light switch and fed it through into the engine bay for connection later as I think it may be a real challenge to get in to after the tunnel is...

After some delays due to holidays, I managed to make some progress on the internal panels. I was dreading fitting the seat box, as I could see that there was a slight bend on the rear rail. It must have happened when I riveted it together...

Picked it up from eBay £6.88, it's ok, although I got rid of the plastic covered locking screw and put a small bolt in so the locking pin doesn't shift 🤬...

Like your dial gauge, beats my card disc.

Absolutely, too easy to miss the bracket when refitting the head, then realise you just f®©¢¥d up 😀

I have done much the same as you plan with those two head bolts. Spring pressure is minimal compared to to pull of head bolts. Still I recon someone at Land Rover was having an off day and ran out of ideas when they came up with that plan.

Yep, this has caught me out, and after torquing down my newly built head I realised I had not got the bracket on 😱. So I'm hoping taking the two bolts out and refitting them will not cause total disaster 😬. I figured since the bolts will have app...

I put some Tessa (fabric) tape on mine so as not to scratch the air box/straps.

the rubber mounts were all quite bad and separating from the metal mounts But are available Well time to refit and move on 😀

The fun stuff about restoring your Landy is when you've taken it apart, cleaned refinished the rusty bits by arduous labour, etch primer and 2k gloss. Got new replaceable consumables and end up with a kit to put back together. It's like when you...

This is my7 1997 Defender 300 tdi engine It's origional, and I'm building a new cylinder head for it as the gaskets gone on cyl no 3. I've poeted and polished it and modified the valves to to improve flow and efficiency. But yours looks like a...

A gaylander ain't tall enough to look down on a sports car let alone another "real" land rover!

Take the door card off, either the guide on the bottom of the glass has broke/fell off/rusted or... The guides running either side of the glass have failed simlairy...or The scissor is bust. Not too dear to fix but can be a ballache with rusty...

Peggy the farmy pick-up did seem a little quicker than I was expecting. Out accelerating a 2018 transit to 80 up a hill on the duel carriageway. I believe it has the same engine as the last Defenders, and they may have had some load, so it means...

Thats an intake bowl, behind the valve

I forgot to mention, I was using a very small grinding stone on the pencil air die grinder, with wd 409 which stopped the stone clogging with Alu. You can see all the ****e sticking oot better in this pic. There is also minimal machining from...

So Fourby folk got ack to me and said there is a waiting list I can Join. Here's the link for anybody interested in getting one too. https://fourby.co.uk/epages/950004277.mobile/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/950004277/Products/Manifold Meantime and...

Yes, as in first pic. But it's not easy to see.

I would keep the galv finish, if it looks good. You can clear coat then make it flat. Just going to get pics of my 88 sear box which I rebuilt recently.

Very tidy 😁

I gave them a shout but they have not come back to me, so they may not be making them anymore 😭. Maybe I buy old ones and make my own, if I can get my TIG working properly 🤣

What do you think needs sorting? To give another example. I have a Chevy Camaro with the LS1 5.7 V8 engine. Swapping a later manifold on gives an easy dyno proven 20hp. Same pipe work, same throttle body. Same size inlet hole on the manifold...

@Wagon Loon , Gigi's my favourite colour in S3 mode. She's a good looking girl and sports Safari roof too, nice.