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The top hat section was delivered today from YRM (great service as usual), which spurred me on to strip the second row floor down. I drilled out the rivets and spot welds holding the top hat ribs under the floor. Once it looked like Swiss cheese, I chiselled them off. I cut the new top hat...

Stripped down the ‘b’ post bulkhead and stripped off all the underseal which was a nightmare as it was like solid tar! I also stripped the corroded cross member from the second row floor to reveal that the top hat sections were also holed 😩. I’ve ordered the top hat repair section from YRM and...

Definitely, not got time to hang about and moan about it 🙂. I’m keeping the Landrover but will be selling my Triumph, Jaguar and MGB project. I want to put MOT’s on them to give the new buyers confidence that they are mechanically sound . I need to crack on with bodywork now to make some useful...

No worries, got some time to clear stuff out, so will let you know what’s going and when 👍

Yes, it’s been difficult realising that the chances of me doing my hobby in the future are pretty much nil. But life goes on and at least I have a few months to get stuff sold. I’m planning to keep my Landrover project - hopefully completed by then!

Due to me losing my garage by August 2024, I will unfortunately have to sell my classic cars and possibly workshop equipment too, if anyone is interested. I will be selling a 1973 Triumph 2000 in great condition in French blue with an MOT ( mot and tax exempt). Also I will be selling a Jaguar...

The next job is to prepare the floor panels and bulkhead for paint which sits between the first and second row seats. The reason for this is to tie both b pillars together. Once this is done I can move onto the seat box and rear upper body sides. My plan is to use a standard rear tub crossmember...

Once the rivets were in, I fitted the rear sill brackets, them the front sill captive plate and nuts to the bulkhead, which was a bit of a faff, but got there 😄

Been fairly busy on the Landy today. I’ve got a deadline to get it finished now as I’m losing my garage in August. Not ideal, but that’s life. I decided to focus on the sills and b post assembly today. After, lining the assembly up, I used some screw pins to hold it together. As I am using 110...

Ah, that’s fantastic. Much appreciated! The clip looks the same as the one on the drivers side on my gearbox, so I’ll move it to the rear and check for the chassis clip too. That will allow me to get another bit done 😀. Thanks again.

I seem to have a ‘p’ clip on the driver’s side of the gearbox which I’m not sure is right. If you have any pics, I’d appreciate seeing them!

Not so much done due to other commitments this weekend 🙁. Ordered the screws, washers and speedo cable. Once they arrived and after a bit of faffing around, I got the gearbox end fitted. Looking for some feedback on the routing of the cable. If any of you have any idea of how it goes I would...

Next up, I thought it would be a good idea to complete the clutch pipe installation. The last part of the puzzle was the rigid pipe between the top flexi and the slave cylinder. Time to get some fluids into the clutch system for the first time 😀. After checking all the connections, I bled the...

Made a bit more progress today with another couple of jobs done. Before fitting the front propshaft, I noticed that the sliding yoke never had a grease nipple on it. It was blanked off with a bolt. Not sure why that would be, but I had a search around in my spares and found a new grease nipple...

😂 Always glad to be of service! lol.

The new front wing support brackets arrived from eBay, but unfortunately they don’t come with the securing brackets so I made some. I had some galvanised steel plate, so I cut a couple of plates to size, drilled holes to match the original centres and welded some m6 bolts in. Gave it a coat of...

Next up, I cleaned up and painted the front propshaft, and sourced some new nylon nuts to fit it. Once greased, it was ready to fit…

Did some catch up on some of the unfinished jobs today. The parts for the handbrake linkage arrived from Blanchard, so I cracked on with that, fitting a new clevis, spring, relay pivot pin washer and spring retainer. I greased up the moving parts and put it all together and adjusted it. One more...

I moved onto the front propshaft, which isn’t a job I was really looking forward to! I bought a pair of new GKN branded uj’s and one, new old stock Unipart which is actually made by GKN as I found out when I opened the box. I prefer GKN uj’s as they seem to fit well and last too. I hammered out...

I hope so, but I have it on good authority that as long as you don’t abuse the box, it will last. 🤞